MamaBlogger365 - A Brief Note to My Son by Amy Andrews

While a picture's worth a thousand words, I've written a few to accompany this one anyway.

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MamaBlogger365 - Creating a Fantastic Relationship with Your Kid at Any Age by Fran Capo

Fran Capo

I’m blessed. My son and I are best friends. People often ask what makes you and your son Spencer so close? So I thought about it, talked to him about it, and here’s what it narrows down to.

To start with, I believe I had the best mom in the world. She was supportive, loving, fun, positive, spiritual, a great listener (that’s probably how I became a fast talker) and taught me nothing was impossible. I could tell her anything. Everyone wanted to adopt my mom as their mom. My mom was a housewife, and although she worked before she had us (I have a sister), when we came along, we were her world. It wasn’t until much later in life, after we were grown, that she worked again and became an assistant teacher.

Okay, so fast forward....

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MamaBlogger365: Is Balance Really a Myth? by Kim Jennings

I wonder. It’s a hot topic, maybe even a bit overdone. Seems to me that balance should be more about figuring out the life you want, and then working towards that, all while spending time with the people you care about most.

So, after months (ok, years) of saying I’m going to work on it, I’m taking action.

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MamaBlogger365 - Sometimes, You Just Need a Hug from Mom by Kim Jennings

Sometimes, my son gets “hurt feelings” – especially when he doesn’t get his way.

No, you can’t play three hours of video games today.
No, we can’t play mini golf in the pouring rain.
No, we can’t eat pizza for dinner every night of the week. Read more...

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MamaBlogger365 - Sending Support and Love by Jennifer Andersen

Why is it that after so much talk, writing and sharing of the concept of stay at home parenting so many of us still feel so alone? Many of our partners still do not get it and sometimes even blame us for the emotional disturbances of our children.

I was reminded of this recently when at a play space, a woman shared with me that her son had been “kicked out of preschool” the day before. She teared as she told me about the toll that it is taking on her marriage and how, though he tries not to, her husband blames her, because she is at home with her son. She also has a nine-month-old daughter. She shared with me that oftentimes she thinks that if she had had two of her son she surely would be residing “on a funny farm” instead of sharing her woes with me. She spoke of being embarrassed, shunned and bewildered. Going back to work is her desire, but she doesn’t want anyone else to raise her children. She spoke of the envy she felt toward her husband, for going to work daily and accomplishing things, for being able to grab lunch when he wants, and use the bathroom alone. Read more...

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MamaBlogger365 - The Guilt Complex by Dorothy Sue Laqua

Two of our sons and I had a conversation about my divorce and remarriage to another man. When my first husband divorced me, I remarried within eight months to a neighbor man. I had four children and he accepted them all. The marriage was good for the first five years, but shortly before his mother died he became violent. It was almost overnight that I became the target of his obsession and the children became targets also. Within eight months after the first strike and pulled gun. I and the children left him and went into hiding for an entire year. Read more...

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MamaBlogger365 - Ebb and Flow by *Dr Mama* Amber Kinser

This post is about the ebb and flow of mothering. I’m thinking today about how impermanent any given moment in mothering is and how that can be a source of comfort and hope. Of course it also means that experiences that are sweet and tender fade; “stellar mom moments” fade (I wrote about this in a post on “necessary losses”); the life stages of your child or children that you most connected with fade. But the upside is that the children grow and change, even as you do, so in stages or phases where you feel stuck, you don’t stay stuck there for long. read more

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MamaBlogger365 - Elegy by Liane Carter

“You have no idea how wonderful it is to have daughters,”

My friend says.

Smug. Salt in the wound.

Six months pregnant, I weep the whole way home. read more