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Who Cares About Mommy?
It’s inevitable. No matter what you do or how great or not so great you are as a parent, you will experience rejection in parenthood.
I think it first starts when they are able to reach in one particular direction or another (around 6 months). Usually the first bond is with the mother, so us moms [...]
The Myth of Super Mom
I have three children and there are three people raising them…myself and both of their fathers. Because my oldest son’s father lives an hour away, and has no other children to care for full-time, my son lives with him.
Of course this fact has often bothered me, but because I have two other children (twins) to [...]
Do Your Kids Know You Vote?
Yesterday as I stood over an hour waiting to do early voting, I watched kids play around in line and even go behind the voting booth to watch their parents vote. Some were too young to even know what voting means, but it made me realize how we as parents have a lot to do [...]
Nebraska Safe-Haven Law Shows Need For More Parenting Resources
It seems that Nebraska is the only one out of the 50 states where there aren’t any age limits on how old the child is able to be in order to be left at a hospital without the guardian being prosecuted.
Safe haven laws were put into effect with the thoughts of scared teenage mothers dropping [...]
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