Click, Click, Click Through My Mind by Zibby Owens (Book Excerpt)
December 6th, 2021
At first, I just couldn’t find the right words. I would open my mouth to speak and my brain would spin in circles like that unwanted rainbow swirl on a frozen computer. “It’s in the garbage,” I would answer, when asked the whereabouts of something in the garage. People’s names? Forget ...
Ready or Not by Madeline Levine, PhD (Book Excerpt)
September 8th, 2021
C H A P T E R 10 The Future-Proof Family Building a Better Moral Compass and Stronger Communities If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. —African proverb When it comes to preparing our children for an unpredictable future, no conversation is complete without stating ...
Pure Mama Love by Ali Skylar
August 9th, 2021
Sometimes I get triggered. It pulls me down, Down into the abyss of darkness. I work to keep my energy high and clear, But sometimes my mama heart just aches. I ache to make it better, to put my arms around my child and make the yucky stuff go away as they birth into adulthood. I ...
THE DISINTEGRATING STUDENT by Dr. Jeannine Jannot (Book Excerpt)
June 28th, 2021
The Miraculous Transformation I have always been fascinated by the changes we see in our children as they grow; physically and psychologically. In what seems like the blink of an eye they go from infancy to adolescence, and the miraculous transformation starts the moment they are born. We revel in their ...
Michele Borba, author, Thrivers, The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine: Interview by Melissa Couch Salim
May 27th, 2021
Michele Borba has been a teacher, educational consultant and parent for many years, and she has never been more worried about kids than she is right now. She describes our kids today as strivers—educated, motivated and more privileged than ever before, yet depressed, lonely and empty, and this is according ...
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 ...
I am Mama by Later Mom Marina Topsis
February 28th, 2021
I worked in the airline industry for 38 1/2 years and took early retirement at 60 for many reasons. I wish I could say it was solely for my then 4 and 6 year old sons. It turned out to be a great decision. A few months later, 3/16/20, we ...
Mom, You Just Don’t Get It by Ali Skylar
November 2nd, 2020
The other day my 21 year old son Chaz called after watching a documentary called The Social Dilemma. According to the filmmakers, this documentary is “a powerful exploration of the disproportionate impact that a relatively small number of engineers in Silicon Valley have over the way we think, act, and ...
All In by Later Mom Ali Skylar
October 25th, 2020
I was at a Motherhood Later Zoom gathering when one of the moms shared a bit about her parenting journey, and how an extremely challenging birth experience “birthed” an incredible commitment on her husband’s part to help make changes in the workplace. On a global scale, Josh Levs’ work has ...
Halloween Treats for the Kid in All of Us by Robin Gorman Newman
September 25th, 2020
Having been in business for over 80 years, Economy Candy is New York's oldest retail candy store and a family owned business. My son, now 17, and I, used to do regular staycations in NYC (we live on Long Island), and during one of those trips, we visited the iconic shop ...
