Parenting Perspectives

My husband and I were having lunch at Belair Cantina when his phone rang. “Maybe it’s the foster care people,” I joked. We had been discussing how strange it was that our house had been “open” for an entire...

  This is a post in a birth story series where our team shares their stories of how their kids made them moms. We are thrilled to bring you this series leading up to our event for new and expecting...

You know those WWJD bracelets popular in youth groups in the 1990s? I totally had one.  As cheesy as those were, they had a way of making a point. Before you do something, ask yourself how you'd emulate the actions...

My parents are from Croatia. I didn’t know I lived in America until the tender age of 5. I was in preschool one day, happily minding my own business because I had no clue what anyone was saying, and...

Before my son was born, I swore over and over again to the parenting gods that it would be years before we introduced him to screen time. Books, puzzles, and other educational games would be more than enough to...

I am constantly on my phone. Not always to fall down the Facebook rabbit hole...however that does happen from time to time. I use my phone to keep life organized, so here are some of my favorite apps that...

Back when I had only one kid, I managed to lose 42 pounds in the span of two years through Weight Watchers, working out and saying no to excess sugar and processed food. My transformation was put on hold...

Today, my four-year-old came home after a rough day at school and straight up hurt my feelings. Before I even knew about the note from her teacher describing all of the ways she acted out that day, she insulted...

In a former life, I had a *grand* picture of what I would someday "look like" as a mom: put-together, calm, organized, and level-headed. In a word, I would be self-sufficient. Yeah, that picture disappeared pretty much the day I brought my son...

Recently, I came across this post written by a parent in Chicago about why parents sometimes don't make it to things. Then, on the same day, this story hits the headlines about a woman who is sent a bill...