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Teaching My 3-Year-Old About God as an Ex-Fundamentalist. My parents demanded I view every person I met as being infinitely precious in God’s sight. How do you talk about God to your children?

Talking To Your Child About God When You Doubt Your Faith

by Nikki in Featured Articles 2

The Question: Teaching My 3-Year-Old About God as an Ex-Fundamentalist “But Mama, what IS God?” …..shit. I’m really not prepared for this conversation. I’m sure that’s the thought running through many parents’ heads when their [...]

Confessions Of A Teen Mom - When Life Doesn't go As Expected. Voices of Parenting

Confessions Of A Real Life Teen Mom

I don’t have an exciting birth story. I didn’t give birth in a car racing to the hospital, with a husband at my side. Or really, a clue about anything. I made it to a […]

Calories, Clothing sizes, numbers on the scale. How many days since your last period. Come read how numbers have such a hold over us as mothers.

The Numbers Game – Letting Go Of Calories, Clothing Sizes & Scales

First there were the scale numbers. That started in middle school, when once a year they would line us up in the hallways during P.E. and weigh us on one of those old-school mechanical scales […]

Being a Working Parent and a Caregiver. Being a special educator has made me a better parent, and being a parent has made me a better special educator.

Finding Balance as a Working Parent in a Caregiving Career

There are days when I find myself doing things I swore I wouldn’t do – bribe them with junk food or use screen time as a reward. There are days when they test my boundaries […]

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