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When Another Child Wants to Be Friends and Yours Does Not

By the time children are in middle school, parents should be stepping back. But what if another child won't stop annoying yours? Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2016 9:28 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, advice, Friendship, Highlights

Teenagers Leading Happy, Connected Lives Online

A Pew Foundation report finds that teenagers use online connections to strengthen old friendships and build new ones. Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2015 7:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Research, social media, Teenagers and Adolescence, Friendship, Computer and Video Games, Computers and the Internet, Highlights

Military Spouses, Facing Deployment, but Not Alone

As I looked ahead to my husband's long term deployment, I felt as if I were drowning—until the Navy issued me a life preserver. Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2015 2:01 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Friendship, Marriages, United States Defense and Military Forces, Deployment Diary

‘My Friend Has a Son Who Is Autistic’

At first, I didn’t get that the clumsy idle talk was an attempt at showing compassion. Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2015 11:37 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Autism, parenting, Friendship, Highlights, Adaptive Parenting

How to See More of Your Best Friends? Move Away

When the demands of parenthood, career, and general midlife busy-ness made it tough to see friends as much as we wanted to, we moved away, and saw them more. Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2014 8:48 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Moving and Moving Industry, Friendship, Highlights, New In Town, Nashville (Tenn)

Harry Potter Casts a Spell for Tolerance

Students who read and discussed a scene from Harry Potter in which the cruel Draco Malfoy calls Hermione a “filthy little Mudblood,” and her friends react with outrage reported more positive feelings about immigrants. Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2014 11:05 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Research, discrimination, Friendship, Highlights, Paul, Annie Murphy, Brilliant, Rowling, J K, Harry Potter (Fictional Character)

Helping Children Find Friends in a New Town (That Aren’t Your Friends, Too)

My children say they've made plenty of friends in our new town. Trouble is, they're all my co-workers. And as awesome as their grown-up friends are, children need kid friends, too. Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2014 7:53 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Moving and Moving Industry, Friendship, Highlights, New In Town

Sperm Donation Puts a New Layer on an Old Friendship

Becoming the sperm donor for my friend and her wife is changing our friendship, but we're learning (the hard way) that it's strong enough to hold. Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2014 8:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Babies and Infants, Friendship, Artificial Insemination, Sperm, Sperm Donor Diary

Monday Quandary: When a Child’s First Friends Fade Away

Looking for advice for parents, from parents: how do you help a child transition from the friends and playmates you produce for her to friends of her own making, and what do you do when your child is the one who is growing away? Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2014 9:28 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, advice, Children and Childhood, Friendship

A Sperm Donor, Uncertain of What It Is to Be ‘Bio-Dad’

After a request from friends, a 29-year-old gay man explored the possibility of becoming a sperm donor. Read More...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2014 5:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Friendship, Surrogate Motherhood, Highlights, Sperm, Homosexuality and Bisexuality

‘Dating’ Other Mothers

My two closest mom friends are moving out of state. I have to start dating again. Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2013 7:10 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Women and Girls, Friendship

Children Are Not Our Friends (Until They Are)

My qualifications for friendship are high. I don't tell you when to go to bed. You don't tell me when you're done pooping. So my children were not my friends - until now. Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2013 12:35 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Children and Childhood, Friendship

Roe at 40: Judging a Mother's Choice

I am a woman who supports abortion rights. Before having children, I would have said that reflexively. As a mother, I no longer can. Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2013 6:05 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, abortion, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Women and Girls, Emotions, Friendship, Birth Control and Family Planning, Women's Rights

In Vaccines We Trust

When a friend's child came down with chicken pox a six-hour flight from home, we counted on our immunity, and let the family stay with us. Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2013 6:30 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, _featured, Children and Childhood, Vaccination and Immunization, Friendship, Chicken Pox

Four Hours of Screen Time? No Problem

My 8-year-old son and his friend spent untold hours playing a massively multiplayer online game over the past summer - and I didn't care. Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2012 9:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Friendship, Computer and Video Games, Computers and the Internet

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