Stop Telling New Parents That "It Gets Better." My son turned two this weekend. It was a tough weekend with not too much of a birthday celebration. He had a fever and was sick again, …
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Stop Telling New Parents That "It Gets Better." My son turned two this weekend. It was a tough weekend with not too much of a birthday celebration. He had a fever and was sick again, …
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This week I was in Boston for less than a day to defend my dissertation. My hearing was successful, and I'm done! Several years of coursework, research, dissertation writing.... I should be …
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Before my son was born, I had a lot of plans for how I was going to parent. I read lots of books and made assessments based on what I observed from my friends' parenting challenges. I thought that I …
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My son had a horrible virus last week. I have no idea what it was. Maybe the flu. But as I was sitting in the rocking chair with him in his room for hours every day and night, I had a lot of time …
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I don't want to talk about "poop" yet with my son. Am I being a "slacker" mom because I don't want to think about potty training my 21 month old? Unlike most other aspects of parenting, I have …
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When I pictured having a child before my son was born, I imagined him as either an infant -- rocking him to sleep, swaddled in blankets -- or as a young child, probably a preschooler or kindergarten …