Gemma Hartley

My six-year-old son got into the car after school and declared he only wanted to have one kid when he grew up.

As a freelancer who works from home, I get the best of both worlds as a parent.

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There is a time to be prudent and fair to “many sides” of an issue, but dealing with Nazis is not that time.

I don't want motherhood to be where my life begins and ends. Sure, we can still talk about our kids, commiserate, and share in one another's parenting accomplishments — but at some point, we need to be more than mere storytellers of our children's lives.

I wish I had realized there was no such thing as being too young to have mental health issues. That there was nothing shameful about postpartum struggles.

I spent most of my life assuming I was an introvert, but not a very good one. Then finding out I'm an ambivert totally changed my life!

This straggler struggle is weighing on me! That is, the struggle of having one straggler child left at home, and I’m wondering if it will ever get better.

I want to live my best life and, honestly, it's exhausting. Sometimes I wish I could just take a break and say I'm content with where I'm at.

It wasn’t the name I would have picked — not originally, at least — but as days turned into weeks, it grew on me.