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The boundless love a parent has for their child is matched only by their capacity to embarrass them.
Listen Up, Moms — Your Health is Important, and Here's Why
As a mom, you're no stranger to how demanding parenting can be. And because of that, you've got to make sure your health is a priority so you can really nail the mom thing. And just in case you need a little refresher as to why your health is so important, here's some food for thought.
By Damien Justus6 years ago in Families
Fathers love is no less
As a child I didn't see much of my father I wasn't good enough to keep around or I was unwanted, or at least this is what I was told. As a mother, I couldn't help but take the time to watch my kids grow and play with their father and wonder how a person, a father, or mother could send their daughter to another to raise let across seas. Yes, you read this right across seas. I was the daughter of a woman who loved me greatly but also the daughter to a father who didn't want a girl, so I was packed up and sent to my grandmother at the young age of four years old, who lived in beautiful London, England.
By JESSICA HICKS6 years ago in Families
Why moms are feeling exhausted and unhappy
A monster under recovery As a parent sometimes we feel mentally and physically exhausted. Sometimes parenting, especially for single parents, it's hard to balance family, work, and self-care. We stop thinking about our physical and mental health. The lack of support, extremely high expectations for new parents, opinions, and trauma may trigger hate or dislike feeling from parents towards their kids. Unfortunately, we never took the time to understand or even try to walk their shoes for one day to better understand why they are having those feelings towards their kids; instead, we call them evil, or bad parents, We don't show any compassion, and just spend all our energy judging their behavior. But Why a parent can say those things to their kids or why they become so distant? It's important as a society to understand what triggers a parent to say, "I hate my kid," or "My kids destroy my life". Those words sound bad right, but I used to say them all the time……But what change? What made me realize that I was projecting my frustrations, mental exhaustion, and personal trauma to my kids? What makes me realize that I was not a mean or bad mom (I was still providing for my kids) instead I was just an exhausted mom that commit one the biggest mistakes that parents can do……put others first. How people pretended for me to be an amazing and caring mom when I was having problems loving myself and managing my emotions?
By jainie miranda6 years ago in Families
Simple Ways To Stay Healthy and Strong as a Busy Mom
Whether you are a stay-at-home mom or a mom who works both inside and outside the home, you are no doubt busy for about 18 hours of the day (if not longer). It is no surprise that you are exhausted at the end of the day, but what can you do about it? Well, short of hiring a nanny (a luxury most of us can’t afford), the next best thing you can do is to make sure that you take care of yourself.
By Kari Oakley6 years ago in Families
WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, ADULTS KNOW BETTER!
No matter who we are as people and what our experiences are, being a child is a very unique experience. As children we have less responsibilities and expectations placed upon us. Though I wouldn’t go as far as to say that life is easier when we’re very young. Firstly the reason for children having less expectations is because they don’t know quite as much as they will eventually know when they’re grown. This comes from a combination of our development from growth and our experience from time. Regardless of how I’ve developed cognitively, experience has also played a major role in me eventually becoming who I am now.
By Rebecca Sharrock6 years ago in Families
One Breath Away
She is my mother and she's only ever just one breath away. For 22 years I was living thousands of miles away from her, thinking she'd always be. And although for the last six months before her passing I moved closer to home, I still cannot help but feeling the weight of time lost. But rather than regret I am grateful and thankful for having her as my mother, kind, loving and caring right to her last breath.
By Nissim Ben-Salamon6 years ago in Families
Fathers are not second hand parents
Children in this world are beautiful and magnificent, they are the inspiration and hope of this world. As more and more are born each day of every hour, it's also more that is lost. Our court system helps those parents in need of a family arrangement; family court. At a certain age, there is a time when a child who becomes a teen can then choose who they want to live with. That teen can choose father, mother, aunt, uncle, or even grandparents to such decision, and even though each parent thinks they are entitled to have custody or even share custody of the child what they don't understand is at a certain time and age that choice is now the kids choice.
By Shania Rivera6 years ago in Families
The Prince of the South
THE PRINCE OF THE SOUTH Growing up, I came from an intact family in a small southern town. I grew up privileged. I grew up in a big pretty house. My parents never divorced. Everyone in my family was highly educated. I thought that was the norm. I did not realize until I became an adult how rare my family structure was. I had a charmed upbringing because of my dad's rich heritage. There will never be another man like my dad for many reasons. Men like my dad are very rare. Why? Because my dad was the Prince of the South.
By Gwen Walton6 years ago in Families
Wicked Step Mum vs Wicked Mum
Did I intend to become a step-mum? Not one bit, in fact, if anything I had a rule that I wouldn't date a man with children because when you enter a new relationship you can imagine that the other person will have baggage, but a child is another thing altogether. Somehow, I fell for my partner before I really had the chance to think about the fact that his very cute 16-month-old daughter came with an incredibly difficult past relationship and an unreasonable birth mother who uses the child as a pawn and would continue to do so for several years. Hence my question, who is the "wicked" mother here? Me the step parent or her the actual birth mother?
By Lisa Sherratt6 years ago in Families
