For parents who don’t want to straight up spank their children, but ALSO don’t support full gentle parenting because telling a screaming toddler who’s peeing on your sweater that you ‘understand what they’re going through’ …
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Scream Sometimes
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no one is coming
Facing down another long weekend with a baby and a sick toddler, and then another long weekend after that, there’s not only the worry over the toddler and the baby, because if you’re worrying about …
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Mother’s Day
I saw a tweet, Meme? Post? The other day that made me Lol. ‘Traumatic experience taking too long to turn into art.’ Personally I try to be VERY efficient about transforming mine. I turned our …
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ISO
In Search Of: part time sitter to be with my daughter so that I can be with myself, get my work done, take care of myself, and my other kid, and be a wife, and …
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the dance
When I’m feeding / holding Bob, I’m constantly doing this dance with myself, feeling super present with her and just taking her in, gazing at her, feeling lucky and moved to tears, but then Bored, …
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the rub
While waiting for what’s left of my meager breast milk to dry up, so that I can do what I need to do to stay Myself, I find myself weirdly wishing that my daughter needed …
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it is you
Unloading the groceries yesterday afternoon, I had the fleeting thought, wow I’m tired, I really don’t want to figure out where to put this 40th jar of back up peanut butter, maybe the Grown-ups will …
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Nipples
Here’s something they don’t tell you about having kids: if you’re like me and don’t have a Garden of Eden flowing river of breast milk, so you give your baby both breast milk and formula, …
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what is pelvic floor
Here lies Woman. She died trying to engage her pelvic floor while emptying the dishwasher, trying to squeeze her abs and glutes while picking a piece of scrambled egg off the floor, she died. She …
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sometimes me
A friend sent Joe and Bob this book and I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t think Joe would be into it, given that there’s no cars inside, but look, don’t but your kids in …