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Happy Parenting | But Today, We Did…
Today, I went for a walk with my son. We came home from a long day of work and the daycare and pickup, and as we were headed for the house, my son started to yell, “Ousside! Ousside!” This is our usual debate; he wants to go outside but I’m too tired. He’s so hungry, but he doesn’t even know it until it’s too late. Usually we don’t go outside after we get home because he goes outside for two hours a day at daycare already. To top it all off, the mosquitoes are so bad up here right now, so I usually end up carrying him…
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Depression; Your Biggest Fear As A Parent?
This past weekend, a fellow Mom I follow on Twitter, KeepItRealMom started a hashtag thread in response to someone saying that Depression is the result of overthinking. She tweeted about what it’s really like to experience depression. As someone who has personally experienced depression, and having watched my loved ones go through it as well, her tweets resonated deep within me. I made my own tweets about what Depression was really like for me most of the time, and while it didn’t receive any huge interactions, it did get a couple other people involved who also wrote about #WhatDepressionReallyFeelsLike. My hope was to reach out to others and bring a…
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My Biggest Parenting Succes
From The Archives | The Mom Blog WI My Biggest Parenting Succes I recently read some blog posts about topics for mom and parenting blogs to write about. I was working on mapping out some ideas and doing some brainstorming for future blog posts. A lot of them said the usual stuff; write about your proudest day as a parent, your biggest parenting success and of course, your biggest parenting failure. “What is your biggest parenting success?” Needing a starting point, I compiled a list of topics I wouldn’t mind writing about at some point. And would you believe that in my opinion, the hardest one…
