Mom Life

When a new little bundle of joy arrives home, everybody is eager to see them. Before you know it, visitors start arriving, some with more baby-visiting etiquette than others. While a new mom is happy to have help and human interaction for her and her new baby, there are things they’d rather not experience from…

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs, and choosing to be a stay-at-home parent is arguably one of the hardest choices in any parent’s life. Studies indicate that 7% of fathers and 28% of mothers in America are full-time stay-at-home parents. Navigating the dynamics of a relationship where one parent stays home while the other…

Imagine this common scenario for moms: Everyone in the family has a bad cold, including Mom, but Mom is the one going around handing soup bowls and blowing little noses (because who else?!). Unfortunately, this scenario plays too often in too many homes. Mothers are the heartbeat of families, often juggling countless responsibilities from dawn…

It feels blasphemous to even say that the ’90s were 30 years ago; they felt so yesterday! Many parents with younger kids were kids in the 90s, and we all remember how their days were magical, filled with unique experiences and simple pleasures. You didn’t need to dress up and go out for a party;…

Good parenting is about more than providing a balanced diet, a warm bed, and school tuition; it’s about nurturing a child and developing the whole person. The words we use are the fertilizer that nourishes a child, and they can cause great harm if they’re negative. Even if you say you love your child unconditionally,…

Parenting feels like the one thing we should be taught in school that we aren’t. Parenting never ends; most people spend their lives being parents for longer than they will be employees. There are many schools of thought on “the best” parenting styles, and mindful parenting can be incorporated into whatever style you subscribe to….