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How To Keep Your Relationship Alive After Baby Arrives
Babies are a blessing - but they’re also hard work, which leaves less time and energy for your relationship. If you’re looking for ways of how to keep your relationship alive after baby arrives, it can be reassuring to know it doesn’t have to be complicated or take hours - it just has to be done.
By Leigh Norén5 years ago in Families
A Day In My Shoes
A day; only twenty-four hours, which may seem like a lot or a little time, but it gets stretched out even longer as you live that day the way I do. The problem is the way I’ve had to live, the way my mental state has completely corrupted me, making me think things I would have never even thought a second time before my life took a sharp turn down the wrong path. My name is Abella. I’m twenty-one, and I wanted to share my story with anyone willing to listen. I never had much when I was younger, around sixteen in this story. Until I ended up here, telling my tale on the roof of the tallest building in my city. My father was a drunk and my mother constantly leaving work early to protect us, her three children, from him when he got particularly wasted. My younger sister, Nadya was seven at the time. My younger brother Jules was only five. I always did whatever I could to keep them away from my parents when they started fighting, not wanting them to get hurt. Most times, my father would leave late in the day and not return home until around that same time two to three days later. Whenever he’d return, both my parents would get into a fight that usually consisted of my mother screaming at him, questioning about where he’d been and that he needed to get over his alcoholic nature to help her raise their three kids. He would usually sit on the couch, torn and faded fabric with pieces of cotton sticking out from years of neglect, and let her yell. He wouldn’t do anything but continue to drink or smoke, ignoring her every word until she broke down and cried. That’s where we, her kids, would come over and comfort her while my father would get up and leave to whatever part of the house he wanted to go or he would leave the house completely.
By This Is Life In All Its Glory5 years ago in Families
Family's Annual Tradition of Eating at IHOP
Pearl Watkins raised ten children as a single parent in the small town of Maddox, Louisiana in the 1950s. The children were like stairsteps because they were born one or two years apart. Of the ten children, there were eight girls and two boys. Pearl wanted a boy so she kept having babies until the ninth child was a boy. She loved Bernard so much that she has another boy that she named Grayson. Bernard and Grayson seemed to get all the attention, but the girls didn't mind because there were eight of them. They played together, wore each other's clothes, and even bickered among themselves.
By Margaret Minnicks5 years ago in Families
The Single Mothers Survival Guide Series
“To sum it up, society needs a social shift in consciousness regarding the attitude it has toward single mothers.” I chose to write this series for single mothers, rather than for single parents. Please don’t misunderstand my motives, as I believe being a single father has many challenges. However, these experiences are best told by a single father, one who knows what it is to be there when his 13-year-old daughter starts menstruating, or when she wants to start dating. This could be a very awkward position, even for the most understanding and supportive dad. The perspective I offer is from a woman’s point of view and some of the feelings and situations that single moms go through in relating to society.
By Nicole Orozco5 years ago in Families
Eye-Opening Parenting Tips Every New Mom Could Benefit From
Congratulations, you're a new mom! While you're most likely dealing with lack of sleep, the intense healing process after giving birth, and just the pure rush of emotions and hormones that come after giving birth to a beautiful little human, know that you're not alone. Every new mom has gone through some version of this, and it always helps to have a supportive community to offer advice, tips, and tricks. Because let's be real, mamas. This can be a very lonely, lonely time — even if you have another human latched on to you 24/7.
By Casey Chesterfield5 years ago in Families
Learning about Pregnancy
Let me just say that as a transgender man that is planning to carry it is going to be quite the story. As soon as conception is confirmed there are a lot of changes that have to be made. Especially eating healthy and making sure I'm getting the right nutrients the right way. Which might be a little complicated.
By Kaleb Haycraft-Thomson5 years ago in Families
Rainy Thoughts
You look out the window, and, not for the first time that day, thought about how wrong the weather forecast had been. “But then again,” you reason with yourself, “This is Missouri, and they hardly get the forecast right anyway. I should really stop putting so much stock into what the news anchors say.”
By Aimee Pieper5 years ago in Families
Shortly After Brighto Said "Praise's Wife Is Over 60," Nigerians Found Praise's Wife (All 3 Pictures).
The thing about being on a reality TV show is that you allow the general public into your personal life. The thing about being on not only a reality show, but a reality show where you are being recorded twenty four seven and being watched by millions and millions of people, a show like Big Brother Nigeria, is that every single sentence anybody in the house says, we on the outside can follow it up and follow it up TIMES 10.
By Jide Okonjo5 years ago in Families
BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS TO SHOW YOUR LOVE TOWARDS YOUR PARENTS THIS PARENTS DAY
Parents are the lifeline to their children. They raise us with unlimited adore and give up their happy life to create our way better human beings. But frequently, we tend to take them for granted. Parent's day allows you to thank your mom and dad for everything they did for you in your childhood and what can be more apt than a thoughtful present to precise your feelings. Now and then, basic gifts are the best endowments to specify your emotions, and a bouquet does precisely that. Ask your nearest flower vendor to deliver a pleasant bouquet to your parents on this special day; if you are living in another city, at that point, there are various online florists available to assist you out and order cake online Ghaziabad. To create it more uncommon, include a written by hand individual message to the bouquet. Your mom and dad are getting to be excited with bliss. On the off chance that your budget isn't limited at that point, consider getting luxurious gifts for them as well.
By Arzoo Chaudhary5 years ago in Families
Sundae Girl
"No, it wasn't like that," she repeats quietly. He doesn't even seem to notice that she has spoken as he leans against the back of the booth, spreading his arms wide across the top of the padded vinyl with a self-satisfied sigh. Supremely confident that his version of events is the only correct one.
By Catherine shovlin5 years ago in Families
