Lessons Learned As The Daughter Of An Impatient Man
Meredith from Pile Of Babies shares a great story on her site: the lessons she learned from her dad, who was naturally impatient. It’s a story that anyone who knows anyone that’s impatient can relate...
View ArticleAll Moms Need Friends
Danielle from Today’s The Best Day shares an awesome article on friendship. This was an article that I believe all Mom’s can agree with. It is a kind look at how hard it can be to make and keep...
View ArticleIf My Kid is Being an Asshole, Tell Me
Not Your Average Mom writes about an uncomfortable issue for some parents: What to do when their kid, or someone else’s child, is doing something they shouldn’t be doing. She mainly writes about things...
View ArticleSaying You’re Sorry
The Parents Project looks at issues facing LGBTQ families, such as with this post on how parents react when their children come out to them. One parent screamed at her daughter and the parent’s...
View ArticleThe Pinocchio Complex
How To Be a Dad often has great insights into, what else, how to be a dad. This short post about how his son Finn is about to leave preschool for the real world is touching and a worthwhile read. What...
View ArticleMy Mom’s Message to You: Do it Now
In a post meant to remind parents of the importance of vaccinating their children, Bobblehead Dad Jim Higley passes along his mother’s message of being kind and doing good things for people when you...
View ArticleWhoops! Inappropriate Old Movie
Geek Mom discusses old movies full of innuendo and other unchild-like things that parents might not realize shouldn’t be watched by their young children, no matter how much fun the parent remembers the...
View ArticleRoller Coasters, Bumper Cars and Cotton Candy
The photos in this post at Love Taza tell a fun story of a day at a little carnival that stopped by Central Park over the weekend, giving her and her husband a chance to act like kids again with their...
View ArticleI May Be the Best or Worst Dad Ever. I’m Not Sure
We can’t tell if this lesson from Single Dad Laughing to his son is meant as a joke or a real-life lesson on the importance of doing chores, but we’ll go with the lesson. Surely he doesn’t want to be...
View ArticleThe First Day of Seventh Grade
Maybe we get a little too emotional with all of the back-to-school photos going around on social media and blogs, but this post from Big Mama caught our attention as a look into how something as simple...
View ArticleYour Kid Isn’t the Best. And It’s OK
Not Your Average Mom dives into an issue many parents may think about but won’t say out loud: Your kid isn’t as special as you think. And that’s OK. In fact, it’s OK to tell them that. We’re turning...
View ArticleThis is Important
Weeks before going in for kidney surgery, Rachel of Hands Free Mama felt a sense of urgency and wanted to get some important things done. Her quest to play Scrabble with her daughters on the same board...
View ArticleA Relationship Worth Protecting
Hands Free Mama writes a heartfelt post about daughters and sisters and how their opinions of each other affect each other. As a mom who was once a little sister, Rachel cries and tells her daughter...
View ArticleTrying to Get a Lifetime of Hugs
First Time Mom and Dad is doing something every parent wants: storing up on hugs from their children. In a short but funny post, the new mom tells how she’s savoring every hug from her son and is...
View ArticleThe Day I Thanked Sunshine…
A first-grader sees a cat outside, and the next thing you know, the family at Chasing Rainbows has a pet. As Kate writes in a heart-warming post full of fun cat photos, adding a pet to a family can be...
View ArticleWhat Kids Think About Gay Marriage
Taking your 8-year-old child to the wedding of a friend who happens to be gay could lead to all kinds of questions from said child, and Dads Round Table handles it perfectly by simply explaining that...
View Article7 Ways to Fit Art in When You Don’t Have Time
You’re a busy parent, your kids and busy and there are a million tasks that have to be done at home. We get it. But there has to be some time to fit art in your busy schedule, right? It’s relaxing,...
View ArticleA Farewell to Fatty
Saying farewell to a family pet is never easy. One of our favorite bloggers of the year, I Like Beer and Babies, says goodbye to the family cat in a poem on her blog. She must have really loved the cat...
View ArticleEncouraging Self-Esteem in Your Child
The blog at Yellowbrick.me makes a suggestion on encouraging self-esteem in children that is easy to forget: not letting your kid know you’re disappointed in them. Parents can wish their children had...
View ArticleFamily From Pierre Trudeau to Justin
Dadcamp pulled together some quotes and photos of the Trudeau family to see what can be learned from the father and son who both became prime minister of Canada during their lives. Public service can...
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