Parenting

Here's why eliminating those words will help them — and how to enforce more productive thinking habits.

...[O]ur very responsibility is to equip them with everything they need before we shove them out of the nest and watch their wings spread far and wide... But what, then, is left for us?

When my best friend, who doesn’t have any kids herself, came to visit, not only did she watch Octonauts with the little ones, she later admitted to wanting to watch the show on her own. Yeah. It’s that good.

And accept them for who they are.

One of the harder things in parenting is deciding when you tell your child that the blood gushing from face is normal and when to throw them in the car and head to the ER.

There are a lot more moments you’ll feel like you’re a disaster than there are moments you’ll feel like you’re nailing it.

Parenthood is so chaotic that we find ourselves spewing words sometimes that we probably never, ever pictured ourselves saying. Then parenthood happened.

What seemed like it might be a super fun adventure is suddenly exhausting, terrifying, and sometimes downright dangerous.