OK, so I am not even going to slightly pretend to understand the medical complexity of this case. But suffice it to say it is craaaazy. Here are the basics: A 15-year-old girl in South Africa was born with no vagina—she’d never had a period, etc. But she did have a boyfriend and was having […]
A a new study conducted by anthropologists at Emory University set out to determine why some fathers take to the job more than others. Naturally, they decided to study their balls. The study looked at 70 biological fathers who had a child between the ages of one and two, and who were living with the […]
This week, many kids, including my own, are headed back to school. And, like anything parenting-related, school brings along with it its own heaping pile of judgement. What school do you send your child to? Public? Private? Charter? Or do you homeschool or unschool? Regardless of what might work best for your own child and […]
I’ve been out of the country for the past two weeks, spending almost the entirety of that time in Israel. Along the way, I’ve learned some interesting things about taking an extended global trip while parenting. Contrary to what you might think, there are some pretty sweet perks to traveling with a child. I made […]
I never want to be a primary parent; I very much want to nurture and raise children as part of a committed family unit. It’s alright if you need a minute. Go ahead and reread it. Five years ago, as I was unwittingly being ushered along the hetero/mononormative conveyor belt of life, those would have […]
The newest log to stoke the fires of the hyped-up “Mommy Wars,” is an xoJane essay that got extra legs when it was recently republished over at TIME.com. Liz Pardue Schultz’s piece “Being a Stay-at-Home Mother Is Not a Job,” compares being a stay-at-home mom to a hobby, like camping, throwing a party for a […]
There comes a time in everyone’s life when you’re just going about your daily routine, folding and putting away your underwear or shoving old candy wrappers into your purse, and BAM— you realize you’re becoming your mother. This isn’t always necessarily a bad thing, but as we get older, and as hard as we may […]
1. Encouragement – Remember, you are a kid’s role model and they look up to you whether you like it or not. Showing and expressing that you are behind them and helping them along the sport means more to them then you know. A few words of encouragement throughout the course of a practice or […]
2k kids are able to use and understand technology at an early age. They know how to operate smartphones and tablets correctly and get into their favorite apps before they even learn to speak. So to make your li’l ones busy brain productively occupied, we have come up with an Educational “My First University app” […]
