Meet Later Mom Cindy Mich
October 14th, 2019
AGE: 50 RELATIONSHIP STATUS: In A Relationship RESIDENCE: Split Time Between Wisconsin and NYC I have been a writer for over 20 years, as well as an award-winning journalist and active media personality. I contribute to various online and offline platforms, and my radio shows, Cin's Chat Corner and Sons Spotlight, hold a ...
Parenting Right From the Start by Dr. Vanessa Lapointe (Book Excerpt)
October 2nd, 2019
This has been adapted from Parenting Right From the Start: Laying a Healthy Foundation in the Baby and Toddler Years, 2019 by Dr. Vanessa Lapointe. Published by LifeTree Media. Your Family History Though the first source of parental programming is inadvertently passed on by our parents, a second major source comes from ...
You Were a Kid Once by Adelia Moore, author, Being the Grownup (Book Excerpt)
July 11th, 2019
You Were a Kid Once My parents required clean rooms and made beds of me and of my siblings, without adult help. With my own kids, I cared enough about order to want the rooms eventually cleaned up, but not so much that I needed it done regularly or on their ...
Join The Virtual Later Moms/Dads Circle: Chat with Others!
May 1st, 2019
Want to make new parent friends and connect with women and men of your generation also raising kids? Want a place to share open, authentic conversation with wise, fun, supportive peers who have your back? MotherhoodLater.com is hosting THE LATER MOMS/DADS CIRCLE, led by Robin Gorman Newman & Melissa Couch Salim. We ...
Love Bug, Sweetie Dear, Pumpkin Pie, Etc by Polly Rosenwaike (Book Excerpt)
April 19th, 2019
From the Book: LOOK HOW HAPPY I’M MAKING YOU Copyright © 2017 by Polly Rosenwaike Published by arrangement with Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC From the story.....Love Bug, Sweetie Dear, Pumpkin Pie, Etc. The book about how to calm your baby said to swing ...
The Excuse of Role by Rachel Martin, author, The Brave Art of Motherhood (Book Excerpt)
January 15th, 2019
From an early age we’re assigned roles: hall monitors, lunch-line captains, student council presidents, shift leaders, camp counselors, resident assistants, and more. We give our kids and ourselves roles that define responsibility even further, such as using chore charts and assigning who’s in charge while we walk to the neighbor’s ...
Guest Blog: 7 Back to School Strategies to Promote Less Stress & More Flow by Rene Peterson Trudeau
August 29th, 2016
It’s 1976. I’m in fifth grade and standing by our front door with my red plaid backpack. My eyes scanning, I watch my four younger brothers dart from room to room. My stomach is in knots. It’s 7:45 a.m. We should have left fifteen minutes ago. Lunches are half-made, my ...
GUEST BLOG POST: Dare to Raise Yourself First by Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author, The Awakened Family
June 21st, 2016
[caption id="attachment_23348" align="alignleft" width="300"] (Photo credit: Lily Rose)[/caption] When we buy into the myth that parenting is about the child, we readily take credit for our wonderful parenting when our children match up to our expectations, whereas we just as readily place blame on them when they don’t meet our expectations. To ...
As your cup runneth over….by Wendy Sue Noah
June 6th, 2016
We all know the drill as mothers. There is almost always something to do, to take care of, to not forget about, and let’s not forget to take care of ourselves, too! Being a mom is by far the most challenging, frustrating and rewarding job I have ever had, and ...
GUEST BLOG POST: Mommy, Your Head is Wrong! by Diane Stark (book excerpt from Chicken Soup for the Soul; the joy of less)
May 31st, 2016
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. ~Angela Schwindt It was a busy day, but as a single mom with a full-time job and two young children to care for, this was nothing unusual. I had just gotten home from ...
