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Will an Only Child Inevitably Become a Spoiled Brat?
Dear Big Sister, I recently gave birth to a wonderful baby girl. Due to various circumstances, my husband and I will not be having any other children. As a result, people have been telling us that,...
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Pinferior: Potty Training Reward Jar
The love affair is over. It was brief, but beautiful. For three days my about-to-turn-three year old son was fully and completely enamoured with…the toilet!!!!! Yes, my friends, it’s true. I was...
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Don’t Judge Your Fellow Mama
When I became a mother five years ago I naively assumed that having a child meant a woman had grown up. Gone would be the petty insecurities, comparisons and judgements that women so cruelly share...
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Making Peace With My Belly
My tummy has been a battleground for much of my adult life. In my mind I look okay from the solar plexus up, and from the top of my thighs down, but the bit where they converge has always been sketchy,...
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Twitter – Just What The Doctor Ordered?
Twitter can be noisy. Silly. Crude. Mundane. Commercial. Self-promoting. Therapeutic. Wait, what was that last one? Let’s get back to it in a minute. I won’t lie, the reason I got into Twitter had to...
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Our Teenager’s Online Relationship: How do we monitor it?
Dear Big Sister, My mature but inexperienced 14 year old daughter has been Facebook chatting with an 18 year old boy (we have verified his identity) and although most of their chatting is about music,...
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Parents Bubbling Wrapping Children – An interview with Lenore Skenazy
Lenore Skenazy has taken on the role of cultural crusader, seeking change in how we raise our young. You may remember her from being named ‘worst mom ever’ after letting her 9 year old ride the NYC...
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The Unexpected Pressure to Have a Baby
“I can’t imagine my life with DH, without children, ” my good friend said, sitting across the table from me waiting expectantly for my agreement. “Erm, yea,” I said hesitantly. It was about all I could...
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We Are All More Than Just Moms
When we think of a modern mom, we may picture a woman in a business suit, rushing to the door of an elementary school with her kid trailing behind. She’s got to be at work in 20 minutes. Her son is not...
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A Day in The Life of Mom
Get up. Get yourself up because if you roll over it will be far more painful to get up later and you won’t have gotten a work-out in. Get up. Whatever you do, remember the passport forms today. Drive....
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Natural Pregnancy Tips
Enter to win Oopsie Loopsie waistband extenders for when you’re wearing your pre-preg jeans (beginning of pregnancy or post baby) but just can’t quite get that button done up! In the modern world we...
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Win an Oopsie Loopsie Waistband Extender for Early Pregnancy/Post Baby
The Oopsie Loopsie is a waistband extender that helps you button up those pre-preg jeans when you’re at the beginning of pregnancy (and not quite ready for maternity wear) or after the baby is born...
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Tick, Tock. My Biological Clock.
What kind of sick and twisted turn of events is this?! Why now after all this time does my biological clock have to start ticking? And, it’s not just ticking, it’s gonging! I hear it. I get the point....
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Is Blood Thicker Than Water?
My whole life, I’ve said that family is what you make it. And I’ve always resisted, no wait, detested the expression “blood is thicker…”. I have thought that if I let that be true, I would feel even...
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Kidjacked: A Father’s Story
There are a few thoughts in life that take my breath and cause me to shudder. I fear being in a car accident and trapped in my car; I fear cancer; I fear a child being hurt or at the absolute worst,...
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My Dad the Strong Man
I was nine years old, and very disappointed in my father. An unnecessarily dramatic and entirely unfair judgment for a kid to make, but that’s how I felt. I felt like this great, heroic figure in my...
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Fathers Love Differently
When I first really got to know my dad I was sixteen. My mom had died in August, my brother was starting University out East in September, and my sister was soon leaving for Australia. It was like...
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Staying Pregnant Wasn’t Easy For Me
A few years ago I joined an elite group of women. It was a membership that I wanted no part of. You see, I was among the very small percentage of women who suffers from recurrent miscarriage, or early...
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Nannies Living Abroad: A Better Life?
What is a better life? I have asked myself this several times since I interviewed Jhaireen, a Filipino nanny living and working in Canada. She says these words, better life, many times over the course...
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Getting New Female Friends: Is This a Date?
I have been with my husband for 13 years, seven of which we have spent as a married couple. Roughly five-and-a-half years ago I started dating. Women. It may sound like I succumbed to something akin to...
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