Tag: momlife
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A Letter to the Burnt Out Parent

Dear Burnt-Out Parent, I see you, and I want to acknowledge just how much you’re juggling right now. Feeling frustrated or annoyed with your kids doesn’t make you a bad parent—it makes you a human being who’s running on empty. Parenting is an incredibly demanding job, and it’s okay to feel overwhelmed. It’s important to…
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The perfect mother doesn’t exist! What I learned from reading Bringing Up Bébé…

What I learned from Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting— The perfect mother (and father) doesn’t exist! So ease the insanely high expectations of parenting you put on yourself, and to let that mom (and dad) guilt go! I don’t know about you, but I often wonder if I…
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How I deal with the harder than usual days…

because let’s be honest… very few days are easy… While I had other intentions for my blog this week (I swear a book review is coming), I had an insanely stressful week and my Friday morning ended with tears in my car… so I decided to switch gears. It was a typical morning, with waking…