Posts Tagged ‘children’
New Parents: How To Tell If You Have Postpartum Depression
(and how to handle it if you do…) You just brought a new little life into the world. The perfect combination of traits from you and your partner resulted in a precious tiny human, a bundle of joy. Yet you don’t feel the joy you were expecting just a few days ago before you delivered.…
Read More5 Heartbreaking Struggles Of A Single Divorced Working Mom
A single divorced working mom definitely faces struggles single working women without children don’t have. The break up alone was heartbreaking, but taking up the slack of even the laziest husband in terms of keeping the household running and the bills paid ads another dimension to the word “divorce.” Single divorced working moms are my…
Read MoreGood Parenting Advice For New Parents
It happened! The moment you’ve been waiting for. A new chapter in your life’s story just began: You’re a new parent. You may have looked to this moment with excitement or a little bit of fear, anticipation or anxiety. The easy part was labor and delivery (as difficult as that might have been). The hard…
Read MoreWhat To Do When Good Parenting Goes Wrong
Even good enough parents sometimes make mistakes. Even the best of parents has an off day (more often, an off year) with their adolescent or teen. Here’s what to do when good parenting goes wrong. Time was your kid listened to you, did everything he was told, thought you’d hung the moon. Now he’s off…
Read MoreHow To Make Good Parenting Decisions
5 Tips From A Mother On The Other Side Of The Parenting Wormhole I had a friend I shared maternity clothes with who made me vow I’d never read a parenting guidebook. I laugh at that now, because it’s a promise I’ve broken all too frequently. The first time I read a guidebook was when…
Read MoreOne Family, Two Continents
Ground Zero : Function: noun; Date: 1946 ~ 1: the point directly above, below, or at which a nuclear explosion occurs; 2: the center or origin of rapid, intense, or violent activity or change; 3: the very beginning . Ground One: Function: verb; Date: 2008 ~ 1: to create a new beginning from an ending, starting from the…
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