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Having Twins With a Surrogate — in India

I never imagined that my journey to motherhood would involve spending months in a remote Indian village, at the bedside of a woman carrying my fertilized eggs. Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 12:41 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, IVF, infertility, surrogacy, surrogate mothers

What Teaching Students Can Learn from Poor, Urban Schools

A field trip to an urban school isn't enough to teach affluent college education students about educational inequality, but it's an excellent start. Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 13 2012 8:37 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, education, College, high school, Teach for America

Score One for the Helicopter Parents

Call us helicopter parents all you want, but those bike helmets and car seats we all survived childhood without? They're working. Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 25 2012 8:27 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, safety, playground, child safety, baby proofing, helmets, childhood injuries, preventable injuries, car seats

Negotiating Pettiness and Heartache in the Modern, Blended, Non-Brady Family

Divorce, with shared custody, can feel like the wrong end of the Solomonic wisdom: you get half the child, I get half the child. But really, we ask our children to cut themselves in half. Read More...

Published Sun, Dec 22 2013 5:51 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Divorce, Separations and Annulments, Families and Family Life, Highlights

Yorkshire Pudding, Once for Nine, Now for Four

A long-standing Christmas Eve family tradition changes as adult children don't come home for the holidays, but four parents celebrate for themselves. Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 24 2013 8:06 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Christmas, Children and Childhood, Highlights

Talking Sex After Childbirth, and After Children

New research finds that both women and their partners experience desire for sex and intimacy differently after childbirth. Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 17 2013 8:59 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Sex, parenting, Research, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Babies and Infants, Saint Louis, Catherine, Highlights, University of Michigan

My Year of Mom Rage

Is our collective, Internet-driven rage about everything from Miley Cyrus to gun control any more effective than my daughter's temper tantrums over my insistence that she wear pants? Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 05 2014 5:55 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Women and Girls, Computers and the Internet, Anger (Emotion), Highlights, Cyrus, Miley

How Do You Motivate Your Teenager to Get Moving in the Cold?

Looking for experienced parents who know how to keep a sedentary teenager moving year round. Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 10 2014 6:53 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Highlights, New Parent, Old Parent

How to — or How Not to — Put Your Child on a Diet

When a mother forces her obese 7-year-old to lose weight, is that a success story or the beginning of a child's lifelong battle with weight and body image? Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2012 8:13 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, diet, body image, childhood obesity, eating disorders, Portion-Size Me, Dara-Lynn Weiss, Marshall Reid

Preschool Wardrobe Wars

Is battling over what a four-year-old wears worth it? Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 10:37 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, preschoolers, kids clothing

A Mother's Fear of Losing Everything

Facing deportation, and bankruptcy and loss of a home, one mother feels "torn." Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2011 8:59 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Motherlode Book Club, bookclub, homelessness

This Is Not Your Mother’s Marijuana Talk. So What Should We Say?

Marijuana is legal in some states and under some circumstances, and can now be munched and drunk as well as smoked. How does that change the way we talk about it with our kids? Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 21 2014 2:05 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Twitter, Marijuana, Highlights, Colorado, Twitter|TWTR|NYSE

Having Children Makes You (Relatively) Happier

New research shows that having children inoculates parents against the things that conspire to cause unhappiness. So there. Read More...

Published Thu, May 17 2012 7:28 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Research, Happiness, childless by choice, Jennifer Senior, Why Parents Hate Parenting

Life as a Depressed Parent

Everything is harder when you are depressed, depressed parents say, although one suggests that parenting can help a depressed person get through the day. Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 02 2009 11:50 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, post-partum depression, depression

How to Talk to Your Teenager About Pornography

Even researchers who can't point to definitive evidence that pornography harms teenagers say parents should talk to their children about what they might see online. What should that conversation look like? Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 31 2014 9:24 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Sex, parenting, pornography, Teenagers and Adolescence, Computers and the Internet, Highlights

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