Tasked with writing about health and well-being for this month’s column, I wanted nothing more than to avoid talking about my own screwed up relationship with food. But, the truth is, I struggle more with how to parent my kiddo without passing on my disordered eating than almost …
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Hold them closer
You know what’s nice about postpartum depression? Well, nothing, really. But it does have one small redeeming quality: Unlike almost any other problem you’ll encounter in your spit-up covered parenting journey—or in life, for that matter—you really can take a pill and make it better. Once the hormone brain …
Read More »In defense of selfish parenting
My husband and I made a self-preservation list to scrap unsolicited parenting advice early on in our parenting journey. Surprisingly, our decision to (literally) throw out most parenting guides has not only preserved our sanity, it’s also benefited our son immensely. We not-so-jokingly refer to our tactics as “Selfish Parenting”, …
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