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Charities That Inspire Kids: The Family & Youth Initiative

Teenagers in foster care need the meaningful connections with adult friends and mentors that this organization provides. Sometimes those relationships become something more. Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 31 2014 8:04 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, foster care, Teenagers and Adolescence, Philanthropy, Adoptions, Highlights, Volunteers and Community Service

A 'Hack' for a Cluttered Car

A solution for the only desirable kid clutter in the car. Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 08 2013 9:01 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Children and Childhood, Storage, Automobiles, Automobile Safety Features and Defects

Turn Off That TV and Go Outside and Play

Yet more research encouraging us to get our children, and ourselves, outside. Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 10 2013 1:16 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Research, Playgrounds, Parks and Other Recreation Areas

Emetophobia, Vomiting Children and Me

If you are a child in my family feeling your very rottenest, your tender mother (me) is likely to bolt out of the room with her fingers in her ears. Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 14 2013 11:31 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, _featured, Children and Childhood, Hygiene and Cleanliness, Norovirus, Phobias, Influenza

Solving Bus Strike's Impact on Special Needs Students Isn't Simple

New York City's bus strike reveals how years of inertia, shortsighted policies, and competing interests can magnify an already tough problem. Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2013 9:23 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Children and Childhood, Education (K-12), Strikes, Buses, Special Education

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 20 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

Protecting Teenagers From High School's 'Big Box'

Is high school an "almost sadistically unhealthy" place to send an adolescent? Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 23 2013 10:08 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Teenagers and Adolescence, Fear (Emotion), Labeling and Labels, Senior, Jennifer

Helicopter Parents Make Children Miss Milestones

Even parents who are convinced we don't hover may not be stepping back to allow children to step up. Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 25 2013 9:04 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Helicopter parents, parenting, _featured, Children and Childhood, Helicopters

Even a ‘Good Baby’ Is Exhausting

She's just a baby, albeit a premature baby, doing exactly what a baby her age should do. But that hasn't stopped us from losing sleep over her. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2015 6:54 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Babies and Infants, Highlights, Premature Babies, Adoption Journal

Babies Who Eat to Live, Instead of the Other Way Around

Obsessing over a baby who is eating enough for her, but not enough to put her on the weight chart. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2015 8:51 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Weight, Babies and Infants, Diet and Nutrition, Highlights

Online Dating Rules for My Grandmother: Must Drive, Preferably at Night

While my grandmother and I have always been close, her online dating experiment brought us closer, mostly because she called me four or five times a week (she kept forgetting her JDate password). Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 13 2015 7:44 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Grandparents, Highlights, Dating and Relationships, Online Dating

Across the Ocean, With Five Small Children

Life is too short NOT to go. Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 30 2011 8:42 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Airplanes, death, plane travel

Losing the Family Car

A guest post by Corbyn Hanson Hightower, whose earlier post about dumpster diving to feed her family struck a chord with readers. Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 04 2011 12:05 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, recession, poverty

Foster Parenting Creates a Future, Without Erasing the Past

Adoption is not a rescue and a happy ending. My children are safer and loved now, but their losses cannot be undone. Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 27 2013 6:41 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, foster care, _featured, Children and Childhood, Adoptions, Love (Emotion)

Parenting Training That Works

"If you engage people before things go awry, they can avoid problems that we might have predicted for them, or they might have predicted for themselves." Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2013 11:15 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized

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