There is a place called “Done” where no mom wants to go. You hate it. Mom hates it. She tried to keep you from going there, but you just kept on driving.
Part of our job as parents is to show our kids what it should look, sound, and feel like when someone you love treats your body, needs, and desires with respect.
What advice would he give to us now as we forge ahead into this fragile world, uncertain of what’s to come? With the utmost confidence: Love each other.
When does it happen? That slide from an infant, completely dependant, to a person, complete and unleashed on the world? It's slow and unnoticeable until it's not.
Sleep training is one of the most controversial and debated topics in the parenting world. But when you're at the end of your rope, it becomes a consideration.
Because, deep down, I know this is the last time I'll share my bed with a small person who steals my slumber, I'm as reluctant to give it up as I am sleepy.
Just because their bodies have matured into a nearly adult form, teenager's brains are still developing. We need to treat them in a way that honors that.
The parenting books I devoured while pregnant prepared me for a lot of things, but the ways my son was going to manipulate his member wasn't one of them.
