Source: Marilyn Nieves / Getty Usually the question arises of how to handle your children coming out to you, but what do you do as a parent when you realize later in life that you have same-sex sexual preferences and are ready to come out to your children? The first thing you should know is there is no right or wrong way to come out to your kids. However, before you take … [Read more...]
From One Mom To Another: 5 Signs You Family Is Experiencing Too Much Stress
Source: skynesher / Getty Stress is typically a condition we don’t recognize until things are far out of hand. We may say we’re “stressed” when someone asks how we’re doing, but often the signs of truly being stressed out show up in ways we don’t even suspect, and that’s especially true of familial stress. Try as hard as you may to shield your children from your marital … [Read more...]
From One Mom To Another: Is Staying In A Loveless Marriage For The Kids Ever The “Right” Thing To Do?
Source: LaylaBird / Getty Your relationship isn’t working, you feel angry all the time, you’re frustrated, hurting, and the love is gone. You’re thinking it’s time to separate — or even divorce — but you have kids and it’s complicated. Now you’re asking yourself tough questions, like whether staying together for the kids and keeping the nuclear family intact is really the … [Read more...]
From One Mom To Another: What To Do If Your Child Hits You
Source: skynesher / Getty Note: This article is primarily geared towards parents of toddlers and elementary school aged children. We’ve all been there. Cringing at the sight of a child hitting their parent or even worse, we’re the parent being hit by our children. It’s frustrating, embarrassing, infuriating, and confounding. As a parent, it can also make you feel … [Read more...]
How to Avoid Being a CandleBlower
We are in an era where everything women do is under scrutiny; the way we look and dress, the way we parent, the life choices and decisions we make. And whether we admit it or not, we are often part of this dismantling of our fellow women and not just the ones we don’t like or don’t get along with. This post is more personal than others I’ve written because it comes from recent … [Read more...]