can you do the wet noodle? | seeing myself in my toddler’s tantrums

toddler protesting in a high chair

What if I just hit the deck every time I didn’t get my way? Would that get me very far in life?

Apparently I’ve learned along the way that it doesn’t… but I watch my two-year-old moving from a normal standing position to sprawling out on the floor multiple times a day and realize [...]

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rock-a-bye mama (he loves me different)

cute baby in the nude

[7|52: in the buff]

The way Judah looks at me is different to the way anyone else has ever looked at me before.

I’m not even really sure how to describe it except for the fact that it’s like he knows me. Really knows me.

{Even just writing that out feels so [...]

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nighttime parenting vs. daytime parenting: do we have split personality disorder?

baby with bright blue eyes and amber teething necklace

It’s easy to be a “good” mom during the day when the littles are happy and smiling and being cute… But what about nighttime parenting? That’s really where the rubber hits the road and your true parenting values come out.

 

I clearly remember thinking that four to six months was the most challenging [...]

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bankrupt without love

newborn valentines photo

If mothers speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, we’re nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate… if mothers have faith that says to a mountain, “jump,” and it jumps, but we don’t love, we’re nothing… If mothers give everything we own to the poor… but we don’t love, we’ve [...]

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the world needs more good men

raising boys to be men

I’m not just raising boys… I’m raising men. Good men.

Dear Boy Moms,

Raising boys can be tiring.

They are loud. They are dirty. They are busy. They are active… very.

But don’t we have the wonderful privilege of raising not just boys… but raising boys to be good men?

The world needs a few [...]

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