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motherhood
Caucusing in Iowa can take hours. What are you supposed to do with your kids?
It’s not as simple as hiring a babysitter
Nicole Paseka Grundmeier
February 3, 2020
February 3, 2020
How baking shows changed my relationship with my daughter
Our cake-making days are all the more precious now
Galadriel Watson
February 2, 2020
February 2, 2020
Perspective
Learning that I’m a ‘highly sensitive person’ helped explain my struggles as a parent
I make my daughter feel safe and loved, even though I’m dying to be alone
Shelley Couvillion
January 26, 2020
January 26, 2020
Perspective
Women outweigh men in the workforce. It’s time to take the plight of working moms seriously.
Here are four ways we can be better
Heather Mace
January 21, 2020
January 21, 2020
Perspective
Frustration, depression, rage, and pockets of joy: A diary of one woman’s first 30 days of motherhood
We asked a first-time mom to record her thoughts, feelings and actions during the early days of her newborn’s life
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
January 8, 2020
January 8, 2020
Perspective
I narrowly escaped life in a misogynist cult. Here’s how I fight against everything I was taught as I raise three daughters.
Motherhood has pushed me to explore a new way of thinking, and helped me to identify the rampant sexism alive in my own mind
Brianna Bell
December 23, 2019
December 23, 2019
5 mother-daughter pairs share how they practice self-care together
‘It is nice to sit together, listen to calming music, and just reflect on the day’
Anika Nayak
November 19, 2019
November 19, 2019
Perspective
I always assumed I’d become a parent. Here’s why I’m not so sure anymore.
I just turned 33
Pepita Sándwich
November 17, 2019
November 17, 2019
Meet the 10-year-old who gave Kacey Musgraves a makeover
‘Who came up with the idea that you just have to have eye shadow on the lid?’
Kinsey Gidick
October 28, 2019
October 28, 2019
Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton discuss their collaboration, parenting and what’s next
The mother-daughter team co-wrote Andrews’s memoir
Jane Levere
October 22, 2019
October 22, 2019
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