Instagram A while back, my best mom friend and I had a genius idea. I had two kids, she had two kids, and we both had husbands we wanted to hang out with from time to time. But babysitting gets expensive, and we didn’t want to impose on our parents and in-laws too often. Why not, we considered, swap date nights? One night we’d take their kids to our house and another night they’d take ours to theirs. But it was tricky. They had an infant who didn’t like to sleep in strange houses. And my kids would get all...
This Dad Says That Putting Your Spouse First Is The Key To Happy Kids
The Good Life With Stevie and Sazan / YouTube When we start having kids and growing our families, marriage can tend to get put on the back burner. We have school projects, night wakings, gymnastic classes, and playdates. We mitigate fights. We’re gentle parenting through tantrums. And sometimes, when things aren’t going well in the family unit, spouses can turn on each other. My husband and I have taken out our stress and anger on each other many times. One dad, Stevie Hendrix, shared his thoughts as a guest on the podcast, The Long Game with Brittany and Anthony Xavier,...
Redditor's Wife Wants To Name Their Baby After Any Name From ‘Mambo #5’
ullstein bild/ullstein bild/Getty Images I’m a sucker for a nostalgic baby name. From little old man/lady names (William! Millicent! Oliver!) to names that reference our favorite childhood storybook characters (I can’t tell you the respect I would have for someone who named their kids after the Pevensie siblings in Chronicles of Narnia), there’s just something about a name steeped in tradition and bathed in the hazy golden glow of a bygone, simpler age. There is, it turns out, a limit. Specifically, when you start wanting to name your baby after the parade of women featured in Lou Bega’s 1999 megahit...
He Sits With People As They Die. This Is His Biggest Lesson.
Aflo Images/Getty One of the biggest lessons Joon "J.S." Park has learned about living… has come from those who are dying. He can still remember a patient he knew who was experiencing chronic pain and went into cardiac arrest. Against her written wishes, her family demanded resuscitation, and when she woke up, the patient was enraged. "She had believed she was meant to die as relief from her pain, but then returned to a family that ‘only wanted me alive to say I was alive,’" Park, 42, tells Scary Mommy. "She had two griefs — her constant suffering in physical...