Mommies, mothers, we feel all of the feelings. All of them.
We literally feel our children’s bodies move inside of us and hear their heartbeats (thanks to the modern age) before we ever get to meet them.They hear ours, they beat together.
This is not to knock fathers or deem them unimportant, my sons will be amazing fathers one day - but we mothers, though, we sacrifice for our little beings before we’ve met them ... no rules to follow ... before we know if they’ll even look anything like us.
Sometimes, we love them before they’re a thought, when they're only just a dream. That's a powerful love.
This is not to say that those mothers who choose to be mothers...
Yesterday, my daughter’s class presented the “Letter Z” during their Wacky Wednesday Zoom lesson. Immediately she proclaimed “Mom, School is over and we won’t see our teachers and friends again.” The tears began to flow. For a while, I wasn’t sure where her tears stopped and mine began. How do I explain to my child that she’s exactly right? You see this was her last year at Montessori School of Baton Rouge (MSBR). Next year she starts Kindergarten at a new school with new friends and new teachers. MSBR has been so amazing for us, I have often wished the school lasted all the way to high school, or at least middle school. Unfortunately, my son didn’t have the...
Disclosure:: This post is sponsored by Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health.
5 Tips to Improve Your Child’s Screen Habits
Even during normal times it’s a challenge to manage how much time your kids spend playing video games and scrolling apps, but two months of home lock-down has made it even tougher.
With summer almost here, kids will be as tempted as ever to curl up with the digital device of choice and spend too many staring at screens.
The good news is there are things you as a parent can do to improve your kids’ screen habits. In fact, it’s vital that you make sure they develop healthy screen habits or they’re at greater risk for obesity, sleep and behavioral problems and...
Dear Miss Wanda,
I didn’t know about you in February and I didn’t know about Ahmaud or how he left to go for a jog and unjustifiably lost his life. I’ve only known who you are for two weeks. We live in separate states and I realize that, but I wonder if I would have known you or Ahmaud if you lived on my street.
Yesterday, I shared his post about his hashtag #irunwithahmaud on my social media. Whenever I saw that it was going viral, I immediately felt called to put on my shoes and think of him the entire way. I thought about taking out my baby boy’s stroller and heading out with all three of my sons today...
I’m a remote employee and have been working from home long before stay at home orders and working from home became the norm. Our kids are young – four and one – and attend daycare. Normally. Stay at home orders were issued, the kids started coughing, and people that worked with my husband began testing positive for COVID. We made the difficult decision to keep the kids home from daycare for at least three weeks to make sure we had not contracted the virus as we didn’t want to spread it to anyone else. We did not get sick but it ended up being five weeks before they went back to daycare. In that time, we accrued a lot...
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