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Talking to My Son About the 9/11 Attacks
AP Images On September 11, 2010, we were in Hampshire, England, to attend an arbitration conference for my husband. We only had the older children with us. My son was five years old and was in Year 1...
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6 Reasons I Suspect My Kids Might Be Plotting World Domination
Kids are great. They start out so cute and chubby and adorable. They light up your life with joy and give meaning to everything, including pooping. They are quite simply, the best things ever. And...
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A Letter to My Son About 9/11
AP Images Dearest Son: September 11 is a date you’ll no doubt learn of soon. And it’s an important one. I want to tell you the truth about that date, but because there’s so much out there, I will tell...
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What She Told Her Daughter During Labor May Have Saved Her Tiny...
After two years of riding the emotional roller coaster of soaring hopes and the plummeting sorrow of miscarriages, my daughter Sarah’s wait for a child finally came to an end. Then it happened: she...
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Grandparents Day: Edie and Oweny Taught Us so Much
September 13th is National Grandparents Day! I have so many fond memories of my grandparents. They have all moved on to be with the Lord, but if I close my eyes, I can take myself back to those great...
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8 Things No One Understands About Work-at-Home Moms
Tell someone you work at home and they get jealous of an image that looks a bit like this: You in pajamas, television blasting in the background, surfing the Internet, chatting with...
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A Spider Threatening My Child Brought Out the Killer in Me
Image via Shutterstock I love fall. I mean, I love it. I’m that crazy white girl who buys pumpkin spice yarn to knit a giant afghan I’ve been working on for five years that serves no purpose other...
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Breast, Bottle and Sanctimommy Insanity
Do real women actually spend their social media time “bottle-shaming”? Apparently some do, and it’s pretty lame. Last weekend, HuffPo picked up on the story of one model, Coco Rocha, who was...
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Angry Diners Hand a Nastygram to Mom Whose Baby Screamed in Restaurant
Photo via Katie Leach If you’re a parent of small children, then you understand how unpredictable little ones can be when you take them out to a restaurant. I can remember countless times when my...
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Police Officer Forced Back to Work Two Days After Baby’s Death
Bringing home a baby is one of the most precious joys in life. Three months ago, Sgt. Darlen Dickson, a police officer in Southhaven, MS, gave birth to a baby boy named Greyson. She delivered him...
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Terrible Outcome After Airline Forces Mother to Send Breast Milk to Checked...
Emily and Rory Cooper After three kids in five years, it was supposed to be a dream vacation for Emily Cooper and her husband Rory. An opportunity came up for Emily to...
View ArticleFaithful Dog + Beautiful Girl With Down Syndrome = You’re Going to Need some...
Click here to view the embedded video. Right now Kleenex’s Facebook page is telling this story about a mother’s unconditional love for her daughter Andi, who has Down Syndrome, and her unconditional...
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The Isolation of Modern Parenting
They’re all just praying their husbands are getting the laundry done. The other day I went for a long, scenic drive. It’s amazing how gorgeous autumnal colors are when your...
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This Dad Took ‘Whatever You Do to My Daughter, I’ll Do to You’ to a Whole...
A photo gone viral shows a Wisconsin dad adding his personal touch when warning his daughter’s homecoming date about–well, you know what about. As his 15-year-old daughter Ricarra posed with her date...
View Article[VIDEO] Toddler Smoking Cigarettes and Swilling Beer Sparks Outrage
Click here to view the embedded video. File this one under repulsive! A video that has turned the internet on its ear shows a Romanian dad forcing his toddler to smoke cigarettes and drink beer. The...
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An Impromptu Brunch with My Husband and Baby — And a Bloody Mary
You can’t blame us for trying. This past Sunday it was a beautiful fall afternoon, and my husband and I took the opportunity to go for a walk with our son. After several...
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How I Sound to Myself vs. How I Sound to Everyone Else When I Talk About My...
Image courtesy of Shutterstock We all do it. We love our kids so much and think they are the most spectacular little people in the world. That’s a good thing—it means that we’re doing our jobs as...
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I Vowed My Daughter Would Never Be a Stereotype
Image courtesy of Shutterstock I was a young mom — I had my daughter when I was 23 years old. I never knew a love like this existed before I gave birth to her. It isn’t something you can describe in...
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Here’s Why You Should Focus on Your Kids, Not Your To-Do List
Image via Shutterstock Just the other day I was so productive. I cooked a great meal, cleaned the apartment a bit, ran errands, wrote a blog post, and handled some paperwork for our mortgage...
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Soldier With Death Premonition Writes the Most Precious Love Letter Imaginable
Some of the greatest words ever penned by a United States military veteran belonged to a soldier named Sullivan Ballou, a major in the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry. Writing under a premonition of his...
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