Is Crying It Out Ever Okay For Your Baby? Few baby parenting topics are more controversial than sleep training, especially the cry-it-out method. As a mother who practiced attachment parenting with her babies, leaving my baby to cry alone was...
Easy Ways to Spend Quality Time With Your Children We all know spending quality time with our children is important. Â The quality of the time we spend with our children is more important than the quantity of time we spend...
Is Attachment Parenting Ruining Your Life? I’ve been practicing attachment parenting since my oldest son was born in 2001. I’d love to tell you that attachment parenting has been some easy-breezy, peaceful-earth-mother experience, but I’d be lying. Dear sweet mamas, attachment...
How to Get Over Working Mom Guilt If you are a working mom you’ve probably experienced working mom guilt. Â Some moms experience it more than others. Â Some moms have felt it and made peace. Â It’s not easy keeping all of...
How To Discipline Your Child Without Spanking – 13 Alternatives to Spanking Your Child If you’ve decided not to use corporal punishment as a form of discipline you may find yourself unprepared for situations where spanking is often used. Â Many...
Does Gentle Discipline Really Work? I first read about gentle discipline when my oldest child was nearing his first birthday. Â I’d practiced attachment parenting from the beginning, but hadn’t given much thought to discipline. Â I knew from my own upbringing...
How To Have A Stress Free Morning Routine As A Mom Hey, mama. Is your morning routine a little stressful? A lot stressful? If your mornings are like those of many other moms, you’re flying by the seat of your...
How to Deal With Parenting Anxiety If you’re a parent chances are you’ve spent more than a little time worrying about your children. Â It’s normal and it’s healthy to be concerned about the safety and well-being of our children. Â We...
How to Cope With Miscarriage My second pregnancy ended in miscarriage. I was 13 weeks into the pregnancy and feeling pretty confident as I moved into the second trimester. Â My morning sickness (and a few other symptoms) had begun to...
5 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Family When Life Gets Busy Several years ago, after being a mostly work-at-home mom for 11 years, I took a full time job outside of the home. My already-busy life became jam-packed. Even...
Parenting Q & A: My Child Cries When I Drop Him Off At Daycare Q: Â I’ve just started working outside of the home after being a sahm (stay at home mom) with my three-year-old his whole life. Â It’s been two...
Parenting Q & A: My Kids Fight All The Time. Help! Q: Â My sons are 7 and 5. Â They argue and fight non-stop. Â The older one tries to “parent” the younger one. Â The younger one whines and gets dramatic about...
It’s never too early to start thinking about holiday gift shopping.  In fact, I plan way ahead to get my kids’ Christmas gifts for free. Fortunately, it’s easy to do and anyone who has a computer or smartphone, or grocery shops...
Why I Don’t Breastfeed in Public As a breastfeeding mother, I was uncomfortable breastfeeding in public. I decided early on that I don’t breastfeed in public and I don’t regret it. If you’ve read my articles about my breastfeeding experience,...
Breastfeeding For the Last Time My third son was born with a head full of hair like his brothers, 20 inches long like his brothers, and had the face of an angel –Â you guessed it –Â like his brothers. Unlike...
My Experience with Tandem Breastfeeding When my oldest child reached 18 months old, our nursing relationship was still going strong and I was pregnant again. (Read about my experience with breastfeeding and pregnancy.) I was sure my son would wean...
My Experience with Breastfeeding During Pregnancy When my oldest son was born we had a lot of newborn breastfeeding difficulties. Although we got through the challenges I decided early on that I would only nurse him for about 6 months....
How to Treat Mastitis Naturally By the time my oldest child was 12 weeks old, all of our newborn breastfeeding struggles were behind us.  He latched well, and stayed latch. In hindsight, I realize that part of my son’s latch...
My Experience with Breastfeeding While Working I had a difficult experience with breastfeeding while working. When my oldest son was six weeks old I returned to work part-time. Â I felt a little panicked because he hadn’t learned to properly latch...
Dealing with Common Concerns of Newborn Breastfeeding I had a rough start to breastfeeding my oldest child. We dealt with several common newborn breastfeeding issues such as poor latch, thrush, overactive letdown, and reflux. Actually, only hindsight brought to light...
The Best Breastfeeding Books My go-to baby shower gift when the mom-to-be plans to breastfeed is a book about breastfeeding. Without certain important breastfeeding books my breastfeeding experience would’ve been over before it had a chance to start. See, I...
How to Create a Chore Plan for Children If you’ve implemented a chore system with your children you already understand the importance of children doing chores.  If you are like me, then you might be hesitant to assign chores to your children...
You’re Not Responsible for Your Children’s Happiness Guess what, mamas? You’re not responsible for your children’s happiness. I know some of you are nodding furiously in agreement but others of you are requesting that I hand in my attachment parenting...
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Wearsafe for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. The Simple Way I Keep My Teen Safe in the Real World My oldest son received his learner’s permit last week....
It’s easy to give the standard, off-the-cuff advice to new mothers in order to make conversation or bolster our “been there, done that” parenting cred. Unfortunately, there is too much unhelpful advice passed around that only frustrates new moms or causes unnecessary...
We don’t eat dinner together as a family – and I’m okay with that. It wasn’t always that way, but we stopped having regular family dinners not long after my youngest son was born in 2006. According to Cornell University, whether or...
The Number One Reason You’re Stressed Out as a Mom I’ll get right to it. Â The number one reason you’re stressed out as a mom is because you are always ON. I know, I know. Many of you are thinking...
How To Support Your Child’s Dream Job When It’s Risky Let’s be honest, parenting isn’t for the faint of heart. Raising children comes with exciting adventures along with challenges. You want the best for them. After all, you are there...
Editor’s Note: Â This post was written by OSH guest poster Monica Sakellaridis a.k.a. Mozey. Â See the end of the post for more information about Mozey and where to find her online. My Husband Wasn’t Open to Child Led Weaning (At...