Parenting

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,...

I had two kids within 2.5 years of each other, both boys. I feel like as soon as I got home from the hospital,...

It’s no secret that having your first child is challenging. Everything is brand new: how to hold them, burp them, bathe them, and even...

In our latest episode of Whose Kid Is That?!? Val and Julie are joined by Allie Mirosevic, the founder of Bliss'd Co, a self-care brand...

What is that feeling in my chest? Is it love for my two wonderful children? Maybe. But more likely, it’s extreme anxiety because of...

I played with Barbies when I was a kid, but my older brothers made fun of me so I don’t remember playing with them for...