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Leaving baby behind
When Seattle-based mommy blogger Mandy Morrison of Harper’s Happenings signed up for the BlogHer conference in New York City, she immediately felt a pang of guilt about leaving her 20-month-old daughter behind. “I felt guilty because the trip was for me,” Morrison says. “I felt then like it was
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Seattle’s ‘Gayby Boom’: Different Paths to Parenthood
David Robison always knew he wanted to have kids, so he set out to find a partner who wanted the same thing. After years of searching, of dating and dreaming, he finally found his perfect match — someone who wanted children, too; a stable home, a family to come home to. Six years ago, at a ceremony
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Helping caregivers nurture early relationships
When a baby is born, adults rally around to help the infant reach those important developmental milestones: rolling over, sitting up, holding a toy, crawling, standing, walking, talking. Experts know these physical achievements are essential to an infant’s progress. Experts and educators also reali
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Hit the gym, baby!
When my firstborn, Nadia, was 9 months old, I quit my job and took on full-time parenting. First on the agenda, with 9-to-5 workdays behind me? Join a gym. I pictured Nadia perched contentedly on a lap in the middle of the foam-tiled floor at the gym’s drop-in childcare center, listening to The Run
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Trust your instincts: How to block out the noise and find the excellent mother within
It happened during a family idyll in paradise: Linda Morgan’s 10-year-old son, Todd, got a nasty blister on his ankle. Trying to relax and enjoy a much-needed vacation in Hawaii, Morgan — who is ParentMap’s longtime education editor and the author of the parenting book Beyond Smart — played it cool.
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Become a mommy blogger
Admit it: At least once, while dealing with your endless piles of laundry, you have fantasized about being a famous mommy blogger. After all, mom of four Ree Drummond’s blog The Pioneer Woman got her a cookbook deal and a spot on The View. And rumor has it a movie is in the works, based on her blog
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D’oh! Retraining Your Potty Mouth Around Your Growing Toddler
As baby grows, we hang on every sound, every babble, straining to hear his first word. Whether it’s “Da-da,” “uh-oh” or the coveted “Ma-ma,” we delight in each utterance and rejoice in every new word. And then one day it happens: We’re driving, someone cuts us off, we voice a four-letter epithet, an
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Friendship CPR: Staying Friends with Non-Moms After Baby
It’s your first “girls’ night out” in ages — the first since your new baby arrived — and you’re game for some fun. But who are you kidding? Halfway into that first (nonalcoholic) drink, exhaustion hits you like a locomotive. Suddenly, 9 p.m. feels like last call. Or worse, the need to nurse kicks i
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