Hinterhaus Productions/Getty Images In the words of words of Hillary Clinton, "It takes a village." She published those words in a book by the same name in 1996, and they remain true nearly three decades later. Everything is more expensive. The cost of groceries is through the roof. Mortgage payments across the country are skyrocketing....
Hinterhaus Productions/DigitalVision/Getty Images A few years ago, a friend of mine was going through a really hard time. She was a single mother with two young kids and was struggling financially. Then, she went through a bad breakup with her boyfriend. There were mornings when she’d call me before six crying. She had a hard...
Shutterstock By the time my 40th rolled around, I hadn’t really celebrated a birthday in almost a decade. Parenting three kids, one with multiple disabilities, left little room for my own celebrations. But 40?! I knew I wanted to go all out. I wasn’t ready to travel and leave the kids behind. I knew I...
Most of us, at some point in our parenting journeys, have had to adjust our expectations. Because that image of motherhood or fatherhood we had before ever getting pregnant rarely — if ever — pans out exactly how we planned. Whether you didn’t connect with your infant immediately, can no longer imagine staying with your spouse...