Now that my five-year-old knows how to read store labels, I’m screwed: “Mom, can I please have it? Pleeeeeeease?! It’s on sale. It’s only $3.50. I’ve never heard…
There’s no place like someone else’s home for the holidays. Right?!?! Ugh, fine. But you know it’s the right thing to do and the kids are super excited…
A respectfully unnamed member of our household has been in the throes of The Terrible Twos long enough and severely enough for me to consider rattling the classifieds section…
Part time Dads- I’m glad you came to the park. I know you don’t get to spend enough time with your children. I know you’re trying to give…
In a society filled with divorce horror stories, my ex-husband and my method of co-parenting can seem almost surreal or, as one friend told me, “something that only…
When the hospital prep classes spent their requisite eight minutes talking about C-sections, I zoned out. I’m not having a C-section. Only celebrities and moms carrying breech babies had C-sections.…
Dear Toddler, We need to talk. I’m going to skip the introductory reassurances (that are mostly to myself) about how much I love you because, let’s face…
A recent article in the British newspaper “The Guardian” claimed that the Mommy Wars don’t exist. No, seriously. Author Kim Lock took a big dump on Similac’s ad…
I love mom karma—that satisfying moment when someone else’s judgmental parenting comes back to bite them in the ass. Now, I’m not a vindictive person. But I do…
At last, we’ve passed the date. The day my third child, Scarlett, reached the age of 15 months and 1 day. Our second-born child Lucy died at 15…