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Category: Think

  • Having kids made me love my body

    There are a lot of beautiful stories to encourage mothers to embrace every extra pound, to view every stretch mark as a badge of honor, to see the joy in the jiggle of excess skin. These stories remind us that the loss of our figures is well worth the happiness…

  • Why Marissa Mayer is a bad example for men

    Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is pregnant again, this time with identical twin girls, and just as she did with her first child, the mogul announced she will be taking limited time off after the twins are born and working throughout her pregnancy. Mayer, who assumed her role at Yahoo while…

  • The invisible mother

    Ask people what superpower they would like, and they will often answer, “invisibility.” The idea that you can move about undetected is intriguing. You could uncover government secrets or spy on a suspicious neighbor. The lure of being unseen is peppered throughout pop culture, from Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak to…

  • Sharing baby Zuckerberg: The first kid of Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg, recently shared the news (on Facebook, what else?} of his wife’s pregnancy, noting he and Priscilla Chan had been trying for a long time to conceive, and offering encouragement to other couples with similar fertility challenges.

  • How to act when you see a child having a tantrum

    I get it, kids can be annoying, and kids throwing fits in public can stir up some nasty thoughts about why children should all exist in their own universe. I am not one of those moms who thinks her children are perfect. I didn’t even like kids all that much…

  • Why I gave up on creating a good sleeper

    When I put my son to bed, he is awake and drowsy. He closes his eyes, drifts off to sleep and wakes only when he has a true physiological need for something. He sometimes seeks comfort from others, but knows how to self-soothe. He accepts sleep and welcomes it every…

  • A Millenial mom’s response to that Elite Daily article

    Elite Daily published an article purportedly celebrating the coolness of Millenial moms, and proclaimed that these Gen Y ladies are “killing it.”

  • Kids are not a boxed set

    My first son had barely evacuated my womb before the deluge of questions regarding my desire for a girl began. As any parent of a newborn can attest to, having another child is the last thing on your mind. And, after a few weeks of barely sleeping and minimal showers,…

  • Sharing on his terms

    Pop quiz: What would you do in the following situation? Your toddler is playing with a toy truck at the playground. The truck was donated to the playground and does not belong to any child. Another child spies the truck and asks you nicely if he can play with the…

  • Book Review: The Greedy Triangle

    When my second child was born, an old family friend was kind enough to give a bunch of books, including a few for my oldest. One of those books is “The Greedy Triangle” by Marilyn Burns.