Parenting

Sugar Season started. You know, sugar season? It kicks off with Halloween where you send your kids around to other homes begging for food and...

My marriage is crumbling and it's like watching a car accident happen in slow motion. I don't know how, when, or what happened. About...

I often ask myself if I’ve been good enough or if we have enough to make it through the day. Was dinner good enough or...

Last year, I had a no good, very bad, ridiculous day with my daughter. But... it actually wasn't terrible. Here's how it started: I was off...

One day, while trying unsuccessfully to pee alone, my daughter, two at the time, asked me what a tampon was. She was holding it...

When I was in middle school, I received a horoscope (of sorts) that said in past lives, I had been a stay-at-home mom. It...

BurlingtonVT Moms Blog is part of a larger network called the City Moms Blog Network.  We have sister sites all over the country with teams...

Planning for a baby can definitely be overwhelming. When you start to look around and find all the must have items lists, it becomes...

I will never do that when I have kids. It’s a popular cliché, the idea that in the rosy pre-child-invasion phase of life we make...

One of the first things I was warned of when I got pregnant was Mommy Brain.   Well, I guess I was really warned about...

Jekyll and Hyde. My child has been both and in the same minute. I swear to God, he can be laughing and acting as if...

Offering food to your baby (other than breast milk straight from the source) means the introduction of lots of food and drink related plastic...

I’m a nonbinary mom raising kids in Vermont, and while that means a lot of joy and self-discovery, it also means navigating a world that's still catching up with nonbinary parenting. I show up at school drop-offs and parent-teacher conferences as myself, a nonbinary mom, and often that can throw people off. So, I'm writing this for those who are curious, those who care, and those walking a similar path.

My student debt has me trapped, and I’m paying for a degree that I don’t even use. I just had a birthday, and each year...