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How to Talk to Your Kids About…Consent

How to Talk to Your Kids About…Consent

This story was contributed by Dr. Nicole Lipkin, PsyD, MBA and Founder & CEO of HeyKiddo.  If you’ve been anywhere near the news this month, you’ve seen the Cornell case. A former student has filed a civil lawsuit alleging that seven members of a Cornell...
How I Made Friends as a Single Mom

How I Made Friends as a Single Mom

  This story was shared by Amanda Vlastas of West University Moms.  Before my divorce, I hadn’t given much thought to how many of my local friends were connected to my marriage. Then the marriage ended, and the shape of my social life changed with it. When we...
7 Ways to Give Kids (A Little) More Independence

7 Ways to Give Kids (A Little) More Independence

  In the Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt outlines the many benefits of swapping endless screen time and an online childhood with free play, more independence and real world responsibility. But for many reasons—least of all the decline of the “village” of...
Finding Your Tribe: Four Ways to Build Your Family’s Village

Finding Your Tribe: Four Ways to Build Your Family’s Village

After being a mom for a few years, most of us realize the term “it takes a village” is so true but so complicated. Many of us live far from family or have parents who are in need of caretaking themselves.  Even if we have family to help, it can be priceless to have...
4 Reasons to Pivot as a Parent

4 Reasons to Pivot as a Parent

Before you become a mom, you probably had some plan for motherhood. From the moment you make that baby registry, you have a vision in your mind of what the next 18 years (and beyond) will look like: daycare or nanny, work or stay-at-home, gentle or authoritative...
The 9 Mom Friends Every Mom Needs to Have

The 9 Mom Friends Every Mom Needs to Have

  Mom friends are the glue that hold us together when shit hits the fan, and motherhood’s fan is being in a wind tunnel while you’re going 100 mph in a convertible. In other words, you’re going to need some good glue. Here, nine moms you need in your crew....

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