Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
5 Ways You Can Support Your Child in Their Sports Activities
August 9th, 2024
[caption id="attachment_32405" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Ben Hershey on Unsplash[/caption] Sports offer a plethora of benefits to children, from improving coordination, boosting self-confidence, and enhancing social skills to building strength and optimizing health. If your little one is about to start their sports journey, here are five ways you can constructively ...
TOO TIRED TO FIGHT by Erin and Stephen Mitchell – Book Excerpt
August 2nd, 2024
What Kind Of Couple Relationship Do We Want To Have? Imagine a situation where you find yourself pushed to the breaking point. Maybe it’s first thing in the morning. You were up with your child several times during the night. Now you’re exhausted, getting breakfast ready for everyone, when your partner ...
Greater than the forces: How to keep manifesting, even in strange cosmic times by Pamela Francis
April 6th, 2024
I love MotherhoodLaterThanSooner and I continue to haunt this place like The Ghost of Writers Past, but I am also out there shaking up the blogosphere in various ways across myriad sites. Here's one I recently published on Medium.com, where they pay me pennies a year to provide content for ...
Pathways to Parenthood (Excerpt from A Family, Maybe: Two Dads, Two Babies, and the Court Cases That Brought Us Together) by Lane Igoudin
February 26th, 2024
My earliest knowledge about gay parenting comes from, of all places, Newsweek. Back in 1996, working a student job at Stanford News Service, I picked up a glossy issue from a stack of magazines that came in, intrigued by the cover blurb, “Gay Families Come Out.” Those were different times for ...
I WASN’T KIDDING, NOW, I AM by Rory J. Hill (Book Excerpt)
February 21st, 2024
HUMBLE BEGINNING: “I have to (or must) be smarter than these little kids” From a panicked uncle....ME! 60 Second Scream The first time, I babysat my niece & nephews, I did not have a clue about what to do with them. My sister just told me to drive them to the local park ...
Seeking Your Midlife Atrium Excerpt. from Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age by Chip Conley (Courtesy of Little, Brown Spark)
January 8th, 2024
We’re living longer than ever before. Some people think this means we’re going to be old longer. Anthropologist and author Mary Catherine Bateson says we’re thinking about this all wrong. Our extra longevity means we’re not old longer but in midlife longer. Middle age has expanded, just like our waistline. ...
The Non-Crisis of Mid-Life Crises
January 2nd, 2024
A mid-life crisis is generally defined as a moment during middle age (often between ages thirty and forty) when someone begins to suddenly question their identity and their own confidence in their life choices. It’s a transition from building, gathering and growing to unwinding and planning out wills, life insurance, ...
Tips for Mastering Diapering and Potty Training
December 19th, 2023
Parenting is a journey full of memorable moments and important milestones, and few are as significant as diapering and potty training. These stages are integral to a child's development and tackling them with patience and the right tools can make the process much smoother. The experience is unique to every ...
Mom Bonding Across Ages: 40s Meet 20s by Jen Ambrose
December 19th, 2023
Have you ever found yourself in a group of younger moms at a playgroup or school event and felt a bit out of your element? I’ve been there too. I became a mom for the first time at 24, and now, at 46 with my eight-year-old Lacey, I've navigated motherhood from ...
Stubbornness, donkeys, and free will by pamela francis
December 19th, 2023
I was passing through a small farming town in eastern California on my way back from Palm Springs. After a delightful, yet still oddly tense, five-day visit, I had to take my son's grandmother home to the Antelope Valley and was anxious to have it be over finally so that ...
