Playtime Pressure
I admit I have fallen into the mommy entertainer trap. Somewhere along the way I took it on as my responsibility to not only be the mother, but also the one-mom party bus of crafts, games and other...
View ArticleLetting Our Children Fail
Letting children fail is hard. I am horrible at it. I have been trying lately to not jump in and save my 6-year-old daughter so much. I answer her questions (all 10,000 of them per day), I zip up her …...
View ArticleDealing with the waiting of adoption
After we finalized our homestudy and officially announced we are hoping to adopt, I have had lots of people ask me one question: So what’s going on with the adoption? I know these people are...
View ArticleTeaching our Daughters to Look Outward
A flurry of blogs and articles about promoting good body image in girls hit the interwebz this week. This article by a dad about the horrors of the make-up aisle set things off. He writes on his blog,...
View ArticleLife Will Be Better When . . .
Life will be better when . . . I’m sure most of us are guilty of saying or thinking that phrase with any number of endings. Life will be better when I have more money. Life will be better when …...
View ArticleSmartphones Create Distracted Parents
We’ve all seen them: the parents who are pushing a park swing with one hand and checking their email with the other. Or the mom who hasn’t interacted once with her child since they sat down at their...
View ArticleJoyful Mornings as a Mom
This is what I wake up to in the morning: I found this picture, which I will forever think of as my 3-year-olds first selfie, on my camera today. And it stopped me cold. It was just there between the …...
View ArticleBreastfeeding benefits overstated?
I watched a friend of mine breastfeeding her baby recently and couldn’t help feeling a bit of nostalgia – and maybe jealousy. OK, that sounds a little lurker McCreeperson, but watching her took me back...
View ArticleHow a Mullet Reminded Me to Let My Kids Be Themselves
My 3-year-old daughter returned from a timeout in her room yesterday like this: That’s right: She gave herself the most horrific preschooler mullet of all time. This was no casual chop; it was an...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Feel Less as An LDS Woman
I have steered clear of the Ordain Women issue, mostly because I don’t feel the same way as that group of women do about the need for women to hold the priesthood in the LDS Church. So I say do …...
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