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#parenting

My 12-year-old son goes to an after-school program oriented around healthy living. They learn to cook vegetarian dishes, do yoga and meditation, and learn about various topics such as healthy sexuality and substance abuse. I'm extremely passionate about all of these things and was delighted to hear that my son was enjoying it as well when he started going two years ago, especially because he had never particularly liked sports or other extracurriculars.

Tom insists that Cyrus is a "toxic male influence" on the boys. I can't tell if this is as big an issue as he claims, and I don't know what's right. Cyrus and I have been together for three years. He's loving but more conventional. We share the same core values and votes. He's kind and generous: he'll stop for a stranger with a flat on the freeway, he'll break up a homophobic incident in a bar.

she's been doing what she calls "book reporting" them. "We go on a journey together and we decide to research what that means, where it comes from, why it happened, and where it stemmed from," she explains. She then says her sons are already beginning to understand how everything in culture is interconnected and that "Mom, it's not that deep" is actually very rarely true.

Amidst the sleepless nights, hospital stays, medication dosing, and screaming into the pillow, I cared for the plant (and my son), thinking, in my delusion, that if Vasily were going to live, my son would, too. A revived Vasily stayed behind in New York City with a friend. "The friends we leave behind will stay our friends, and in new places we'll make new friends" I told my son at the time.

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My husband and I both grew up in the same small town in Southern Illinois. I distinctly remember visiting relatives in the Chicago suburbs and dreaming of when I could live somewhere with so much to see and do. Though I did enjoy my childhood, growing up in the country and spending hours outside, I craved something different for my own children.

"My daughter's dad and I really pride ourselves in the fact that we have not fought in front of her since she was like six months old. She's almost five now, and we don't talk crap on the other parent in front of her," TikTok mom, angelehlers_, explained. "So, she has no idea why we wouldn't be friends, why we wouldn't all hang out. Like she just genuinely just thinks like we're all just like friends, like her best friends,"

I think for my kids, they were asking me, I was telling them about adoption, and I thought, 'How do you tell that story to your kids?'

I'm a dad to two boys (13 and 11), and I just divorced their mother a couple of months ago. We're currently all still living in the same house together, but I'm going to move out at the end of the calendar year. I'm writing because I know that my ex-wife has poisoned the mind of my oldest son to the point where he barely talks to me and meanwhile gushes over his mom.

I had unbelievable nausea my first trimester of pregnancy. As I opened the fridge and experienced the gut punch that was a wave of nausea in response to the smell of food, I hurled over and said, "This sucks. I can't wait until I am out of this first trimester." "Just wait. You will miss just having nausea when you experience all of the pain of your third trimester."

Parenting a toddler is basically a high-stakes negotiation with a tiny, emotionally unstable roommate who doesn't understand logic. But when it comes to chaos? Lord have mercy. I'm shaking just thinking about it. One wrong move, and you're in a full-blown crisis over the color of a cup or the fact that you dared to peel their banana "the wrong way."

So when somebody sees the dance video, what they're going to do is they're going to see, and then it's going to go through all of these sensations: the way that they see, hear, feel, touch, smell, all of that. And it's going to go through all of their own past experiences. So everything that they've ever been told about dancing and themselves, it'll go through what they believe about the world, if they think dancing is good or bad or silly or stupid.

For some people, there's value in having clear boundaries between work and family. But I believe that integrating my personal and professional lives was the best way to grow this business. Ultimately, I was doing this for my daughter and other kids, and I knew the best business would be born from melding my family and business.

Mission Local readers first met Church in 2019. It was a redemptive tale of a woman who had spiraled into the darkest corners hidden in plain sight in San Francisco. An underaged sex worker walking the streets at 14. An alcoholic paying for three-dollar bottles of vodka with small change. A heroin addict. A barefoot homeless woman washing her hair in the gutter. A " High User of Multiple Services " with a rap sheet six pages long.

I would start by thinking about taking scheduled naps and where possible. Also, if you can get a lot of your stuff done whilst your child is at school or nursery that will help, but make sure to use that time to rest if you can too. Try to work in bursts and think about when you feel most energetic. Don't apply too much pressure but I would also try and plan content in advance when you have these bursts of energy.

A spoiled child is used to getting what they want when they want it with few exceptions. "Every kid has an off-day -and so do adults - but spoiled kids are stuck in 'me' mode," said Michele Borba, educational psychologist and author of "UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World." "Everything revolves around their needs, concerns, feelings, wants, desires, and everyone else takes second place."

My husband's family has had a block of season tickets to our local NFL team for the past three generations. I enjoy going to the games because I like the chance for us all to be together as a family (not to mention the indulgence of stadium junk food), but I have little understanding of football. Dear Concussed Kids, I also know that those who play football are at risk of serious brain injuries.

There were times during my childhood when I remember being exhausted by the antics of my energetic, spontaneous younger sister and sensitive younger brother. With three kids, there was also almost always a two-against-one situation. I was either paired up with a kid who would do my bidding, or I was the enemy of the younger two, when my demands got to be too much.

My husband "Jake" grew up with three brothers. Their dad always took a week to bring them on a guys-only fishing trip together each year, something they all still do together. Jake and I have a 7-year-old son, "Finn," and a 5-year-old daughter, "Miley." Jake and his dad and brothers began including Finn in their trips when he was Miley's age, and now that she is old enough to understand, Miley is upset about being excluded.