Parenting

Cancel culture divides us and inhibits us from engaging in hard but necessary conversations. Differences in values, opinions, and worldviews serve as strengths we...

Every Thursday, following our Pilates class, my friend and I get breakfast and talk about everything from mothering to politics, gardening, travel, and favorite...

Being a middle-aged woman is the best! Besides the fact that you can literally hurt your back sleeping wrong, you now get to ask...

Jennifer Bransford, Founder of Count on Mothers, sat down with Jemima Talbot, Vermont Moms’ Owner and CEO, to discuss the recent launch of her...

What a year 2023 was. As always, it is our privilege to be a support, resource, and voice for Vermont moms and families. To be...

Are you traumatized by current events? Feel like you and everyone else are wrapped up in it, and yet you cannot find footing? Did you just trip on your rotting jack-o-lantern on the way down your front steps to get the latest 25lbs of gift catalogs in the mail? Don’t get overwhelmed. I’ll help you get through these 2 months of Christmas preparations with advice from someone who has never celebrated Christmas.

Are you a parent with something to say? Want to share your expertise, passions, and thoughts with a wide audience? Take a chance and...

When I brought home my newborn son, I thought he was as perfect and as healthy as he appeared. Unfortunately, this wasn’t exactly true....

I hate Halloween. There, I said it. I'm finally sharing my unpopular opinion about what I think is the worst holiday ever. Besides the...

I read the Britney Spears memoir, The Woman in Me, less than 24 hours after its release. And of course, when I say “read” I...

In our latest episode of Whose Kid Is That?!? Val and Julie are joined by Alyssa Blask Campbell M.Ed., emotional development expert, and co-author...

I am an engineer with spacecraft in orbit and on Mars, and am a parent to two wonderful kids.  I have designed some really crazy stuff as an engineer, and still spend a lot of time doing activities with my kids.  So, why then do I feel like a failure at work and at home?  Shouldn’t I be proud of all that I’ve done? I have Impostor Syndrome, a feeling of persistent incompetence and fear of being found out as a fraud.  It makes you feel like you don’t deserve your role, in spite of being highly qualified and prepared for what you do.  All of this is a cognitive misperception, but feels very real.  I experience Impostor Syndrome as both a parent and as an engineer.

Author’s note: The Jewish people are one nation with one heart, and we all share a part of the same soul. Our joy and...

Football can feel like a foreign universe if you’re not into it, right? For me, someone who has never gotten into professional, college, high school,...