Parenting Wisdom

This goes out to all of you "co-parents." Wikipedia’s definition of co-parenting: "Co-parenting refers to a parenting situation where adults share the duties of parenting a child. Coparents may include a variety of configurations, including two mothers, two fathers, a...

I got bit by a dolphin. Yup. You read that right, a dolphin. We were on vacation, and someone was like, hey, let's swim with the dolphins. Which sounds great, right? When you picture it in your head, you can nearly...

A rainbow baby is a baby born after loss. In a sense, the new life represents the rainbow after the storm and after the devastation of loss. Whether it be a miscarriage, still birth, or infant death. And, it...

What three words would you want to leave to your children? This past summer, I was chatting parenting skills with a cousin of mine. She mentioned how each morning, they do words of affirmation. It's become so routine for her...

You walk into a restaurant after church and of course, the wait is 45 minutes. No biggie. The kids aren’t starving so you know waiting won’t be a big deal. You grab the nearest seats in the waiting area...

Oh, Zane, This is a letter I wish I could have written while you were alive. It would be so much more heartwarming to know you read it. As your mom, I encourage ALL parents to write their children a letter...

How would you define a memory? Webster defines 'memory' as several things, but for me, these two fit the best:  1. an image or impression of one that is remembered 2. the time within which past events can be or are remembered.   When...

A few days ago, I came across a headline that read "BREAKING: Texas Man With Disability Dies After Doctors Refuse To Treat Him for COVID-19." Having a child with a rare disease and a disability, I had to find...

How do you deal with the hand life has given you? But really, how do you cope? Some might take the statement "the hand that life gave you" as being the way school is going, or work, or how family life...

Mamas, it has been a year. Our world is in a pandemic, and our country is pretty damn fractured, as evidenced by our most recent election results. If your social media feed looks anything like mine, things are tense and...