Girls on the Brink by Donna Jackson Nakazawa (Book Excerpt)
September 22nd, 2022
Excerpted from GIRLS ON THE BRINK by Donna Jackson Nakazawa. Copyright © 2022 by Donna Jackson Nakazawa. Used by permission of Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without ...
Meet Melissa Bernstein of Melissa & Doug and Author, LifeLines
March 17th, 2021
Q&A With Melissa Bernstein From the outside, your life looks perfect: you started a business from scratch, used your creativity to design toys, and made hundreds of millions of dollars doing it. You’ve been married for 28 years, have 6 kids, 2 dogs, a cat, a beautiful house. Did the fear ...
Interview with Claire Gill, founder National Menopause Foundation, by Robin Gorman Newman, founder, MotherhoodLater.com
July 8th, 2020
Can you clarify the distinction between perimenopause, menopause and post menopause? Natural menopause occurs gradually over several years and has three phases: Perimenopause. Perimenopause usually begins several years before menopause as the ovaries start to produce less estrogen. This phase lasts up until menopause when the ovaries stop releasing eggs. A ...
Why Stand Up to Depression by Kathi Fairbend, MS, RPT (Book Excerpt)
December 6th, 2019
In a career spanning decade, I have been astounded to see so many cases of depression intertwined with orthopedic problems, including poor posture. Severe or untreated scoliosis (an “S” type curvature of the spine, from side to side) or kyphosis (an exaggerated forward curvature of the spine) are frequently seen ...
Mental Health Issues are in Crisis Situation for Teens/Young Adults by Sharon O’Donnell
October 29th, 2017
Anyone who has read my blog, sporadic as it has become, over the many years I've been writing for motherhoodlater know that my middle son, now 23, has struggled since high school with severe anxiety. It's gotten much better since 2010 and he's thriving in grad school now, but there ...
New website about promoting uplifting high school literature by Sharon O’Donnell
August 16th, 2015
For the past three weeks, my project has been developing a website called Uplit.org, a site dedicated to promoting more uplifting literature in high school English classes. The bleak, depressing literature reading assignments - that have traditionally been accepted as the norm -- have bothered me ever since my middle ...
Depression; There is Hope By: Lori Loesch
August 21st, 2014
This depression thing has come to my attention since the suicide of Robin Williams, because of his high profile, depression is getting the attention that it deserves. I saw a post from the website, TED talks. I watched a video of Andrew Solomon. An intelligent, successful man. He spoke of ...
Searching for the Better Me by Melissa Swedoski
April 22nd, 2014
A funny thing happened to me recently - I learned to let go of some of the baggage I've been carrying around for years. And when I say years, I mean almost two decades. You'd think at the ripe old age of 44 that I would have transitioned out of ...
The End to My “Catered Child” – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
April 10th, 2013
I hate when people call children “spoiled.” Food becomes spoiled. Children are not food. Children can be “overindulged,” "catered to," “parentally neglected,” even “parented inadequately.” There is no reason to put the onus on them. How do you think they developed their behavior in the first place? My son is falling under ...
Adding Insult to Injury, or… When Only Mommy is Well by Heather Bowles
January 13th, 2013
Good morning, ladies! I know you are used to hearing from me on Saturday mornings, and I apologize for the late post, but my family has kept me hopping for the last three or four days. It feels as if I am the only person in good health in the ...
