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"You know, you are a fabulous parent!!" "You sure are a wonderful mother/father" "Wow! Your kids are so well adjusted!" Wouldn't it be nice to hear these things once in awhile? The truth is, despite all the bad news making headlines, most of us are doing a wonderful...

Almost as soon as they're born, we're counting the days until they leave us, all grown up. Sure, they're hardly human at birth, but somehow we know they'll turn into people and go on their merry way, leaving us to the house in—finally!—silence. Kids. When will they grow up, dammit? And...

Two years ago, I moved my kids 1800 miles to begin a new life. A year later, not by choice, we had to move back. After seeing two such transitions in just about a year's time, I know first-hand how difficult it can be for kids to relocate. Everything changes: their room, the house, the neighborhood...

I have huge respect and admiration for parents who choose parenthood via adoption. There was a time in my life when I was convinced I'd find parenthood through adoption myself, but it didn't turn out that way. However, for tons of parents, and kids, adoption creates families. And November has...

This year I took my very first child-free vacation. Yay me! And it was awesome. What had I been waiting for? But for eleven years before that, I couldn't bear the thought of leaving my kds, leaving them to someone else's care (even their father's), leaving them alone, without me, bereft of...

Parent blog collaboratives Kimchi Mamas and the Rice Daddies are running a contest to coincide with the recent DVD release of Georgia Lee's family film Red Doors which joins another Asian-themed film, Mike Kang's The Motel , on video store shelves. The rules are simple: visit Kimchi Mamas and share a...