Despite the advancements we’ve made with women’s rights, there is still plenty of stigma surrounding breastfeeding. This woman had to make the tough decision to emergency breastfeed her best friend’s baby, and now her friend won’t speak to her. The question now remains: Is it okay for a woman to breastfeed another woman’s child? (1)...
Often friends give each other nicknames. They can be for fun and refer to a happy or funny memory. They can also simply be short-forms to make it faster to say a name: Josephine becomes “Jo,” and Robert becomes “Rob.” For many immigrant or indigenous peoples, however, shortening comes from other people not being able...
Plenty of moms enjoy a glass of wine or two to wind down and relax at night. In today’s culture, they are even, in a way, celebrated for it. Marijuana though? This gets a much more mixed reaction. This mom smokes weed after her kids go to bed. She says it’s her “glass of wine”...
Being a mother is tough, and realizing our babies will one day grow up to leave us is even more challenging. It won’t be long before our children are independent and on their own. It’s often the small, simple moments, such as lying down with your kids, where we get to enjoy and appreciate motherhood...
Postpartum or postnatal depression affects one in every 10 women within a year of giving birth. (1) This father, who lost his wife to the illness, is spreading awareness of the disease to encourage others to get help before it’s too late. (2) Man Tragically Loses Wife to Postnatal Depression After carrying a child for...
Take a minute and think back to a few of your favorite childhood memories. What do these memories consist of? A family trip? A sleepover with friends? Playing catch in the backyard with mom or dad? Whatever they are, they probably have a lot more to do with experiences instead of toys or other material...
Death is a particularly uncomfortable topic for most people. Yet, it has a strange way of making people reevaluate what’s really important. While losing a loved one is painful, losing a child is an unimaginable pain. A pain from which no one ever fully recovers. However, after one mom shared the story of her daughter...
An anonymous parent turned to a parenting platform to gain some perspective regarding her decision not to let her son use the men’s room on his own. She disclosed that he’s 7 but she still worries about his safety. The concerned mom got several responses, including many that she likely hadn’t expected. Men’s Room Debate...
Becoming a parent is truly enlightening. It reveals the struggles your parents went through simply by your own experience. On Reddit, One woman’s mother refused to babysit her grandson, knowing they hadn’t had any time off since their son was born. So, she decided to never let her mother see her grandson again. She took...
The Kardashians have been known as hard workers for a while now. The entrepreneurial side of the family seems to thrive amongst them all. Kim Kardashian juggles being a multiple business owner, a reality TV star, and a budding attorney. This means her schedule is crazy and she has little to no time for herself...
Listen, I’m not a mom, so I’m going to keep my opinion out of this, but for the moms reading this — would you give your baby a stiletto manicure? I ask this because this mom gave her baby a manicure. And it wasn’t just any plain old manicure; it was a stiletto manicure, meaning...
Anyone who has ever been a parent or has taken care of babies and toddlers knows that when it comes to changing diapers, the child isn’t always so happy about it. Recently, a childcare chain in Australia suggested that parents ask their child permission before changing nappies. Their suggestion was not as well-accepted as they...
