Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Katherine Gordy Levine. Behavior charts work. That’s the good news. Moreover, teenage girls are willing to use this tool to get the recognition they deserve. The bad news is that you have to work on them. If you work at more than the job of being a parent you may bristle at the idea [...]
Motherhood always comes as a surprise to me. Just when I think I completely understand my daughters, I suddenly find that I don’t. But it is these constant changes in personality and attitude are what makes being a parent exciting – one day my 4-year-old loves the color blue (and insists on drinking out of [...]
By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. As moms, we are warriors of daily chicken nugget battles, dirty diaper duty, running tactical night time nursing missions, soldiering on as we run our 10th carpool of the evening, and manning the position as CEO of everything from drool to teenage drama. It’s no wonder that we often lose ourselves [...]
“Ugh-oh! I pee-peed mommy! Change me! Change me!†This is how my day begins. Looks like I’m in potty training hell … again. I’ve spent the last four years in and out of potty training hell. Moms and dads with more than one little bottom to train know exactly what I mean. Around the age [...]
