Parenting

It’s easy to paint the town red and have a great time when not paying one’s fair share.

Is A "Fun Time Parent" Taking All The Fun Out Of Your Parenting?

It's no surprise that parents who run a tighter ship get ticked off when everything they work so hard to instill in their children goes right out the window when they go to their other parent’s home, then they have to struggle to reintegrate into the structured environment when they return.

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They don’t need to look like anything other than their fresh-faced selves, conventions be damned.

Put Down The Powder Puff, Mommy

Make-up is meant to make you more attractive. And in the case of little girls, attractive to whom? Pageant judges, for one. Dance judges. Cheerleading judges. People who are going to tell her if she’s good enough to win a trophy or not, in sports that typically objectify and sexualize little girls. Moms, step away from the powder puff.

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Having a successful young marriage is the exception, not the rule.

What I Want My Kids To Know About Marrying Young

My husband and I have been together for 12 years, eight of them married, four of them teenaged.

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Many of the things that make you a “good parent” make you a “bad” sexual partner.

5 Ways Parenthood Altered My Sex Life

There were (are) many things that people warned me about when it came to the parenthood transition. But of course, no one prepared me for how having a child would affect my sexual relationship with my husband.

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Breastfeeding may not be possible for everyone. And that's okay.

It's Totally Fine To Quit Breastfeeding And Give Your Kid The Devil's Milk (AKA Formula)

When my third son was a year old, I stopped breastfeeding. He was not pleased.

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"I want her self-esteem to be independent of anyone else."

Why I Won't Let My Future Daughter Date Until She Knows Self-Love

Wonder Woman, Super Girl, Poison Ivy and other "Super" females are known for being mighty.

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