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Advice From a Young Girl on How to Follow Your Dreams
Carrie Berk teaches us how to follow our dreams and live with passion and purpose....
Does Advocating for Your Child With Special Needs Make You a Bully?
Is a mom who ceaselessly pushes for her child, who hounds the school with emails and questions a bul...
Mom For Now: What It Means to Be an 'Interim Boarding Care Provider'
I am an interim boarding care provider--like a foster parent--and the baby in my care was hospitaliz...
Is Parenthood as Scary as It Seems?
Alison Kotch writes about a life without kids and wonders if it's worth having her own one day....
5 Things I Love About Myself More After Having a Child
I looked at myself in the mirror today after my morning run, which I try to do 3 days a week. I drop...
'Where's Mommy?'
As a single father, Gary Simeone expected challenges in raising his son. But the challenge of answer...
A Mom Unmasked: Hanging Up the Superhero Cape
The work-life balance: We all try to attain it, but sometimes our efforts fall short. The story of w...
Visiting My Son at Sleepaway Camp
Midway through summer, mom Randi Olin packs her son’s favorite snacks into the car and treks to slee...
Take Breastfeeding Off the Pedestal
Breastfeeding is not special; it is normal. This natural behavior of all mammals has health benefits...
Just a Stage - One Father's Music Festival Experience with His Kids
When this dad decides to take his kids to a concert festival, he and his family must face the music ...
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? A Parent's Tale
To answer simply: nope, says this Brooklyn mom. This is how her son’s math homework became a family ...
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From the Apple to the Tree: How a Daughter's Asperger's Diagnosis Affected Family Bonds
Amy Gravino was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the age of 10, in the early 1990s when the dia...
On Becoming 'That Mom'
You know her: 'that mom' who ceaselessly pushes for her child, who hounds the school with emails and...
My Own Man: Reflections of a Father-to-Be
The impending birth of his first son causes a Brooklyn documentary filmmaker to reflect on his relat...
What Remains: An Essay on Loss and Parenting
A local mom writes about parenting her young son during the loss of her mother....
What I Learned on MasterChef Junior
Kayla Mitchell, the 11-year-old from Center Moriches, Long Island, talks about competing on MasterCh...
You Be the Judge by JJ Keith
One mother shares some hard truths about ‘the village that it takes’ and encourages real conversatio...
All the World's a Stage: When the Princess Plays a Boy
When her child scores an unexpected part in the play, this mom learns a lesson about treating her da...
Teaching My Adopted Daughter to Love
This Rockland mother rescued her child from a Siberian orphanage at 8 months old. She had no idea sh...
First Day of School
When you miss your kid getting off the bus—and she takes the scenic route around the neighborhood th...
Exceptional, Defined: How One Local Parent Overcame His 'Gay Dad Guilt'
As this Westchester father battles his ‘gay dad guilt,’ his daughter unwittingly reminds him that he...
Ichabod's Ghost by Abby Sher
A Brooklyn mom, haunted by mistakes she’s made so far, finds peace and forges ahead with love....
The Passage: A Family's Arctic Journey
A divorced Manhattan father reunites his three grown children for a risky trip to the Arctic. As the...
Et Tu, Brute? Learning to Let Go
It may feel like a small betrayal every time your child takes a step away from you (first day your c...
The Garden Party
Years later, a mother’s sad memory is forever changed by her daughter’s very different recollection ...
My Heartfelt Wishes for My Son's Future Partner
With a sense of wonder, abiding love, and concern, a Manhattan mother of a child who has autism envi...
Characters Welcome: Storytime Gone Wild!
From a Ke$ha-inspired Goldilocks to an anything-but-traditional Canadian-accented ladybug, this Broo...
The Accidental Stay-At-Home Mom
When Adina Kay-Gross welcomed twin daughters, her professional life takes a backseat. Her twins’ fir...
A Little Bit of Magic: On Growing Up with Our Kids
Westchester mother and founder of Early Mama shares a story filled with whimsy and love on raising h...
If We Could Only Bottle Our Kids' Joy!
Ever wonder how to truly capture your kids' raw emotion and energy in pictures? A Brooklyn mom who's...
Twins' Bond Is Stronger in Face of Disability
When his twin sister is diagnosed with a developmental disorder and hits her milestones later than h...
Not on My Watch!: On Courage and Parenting
An encounter with a mama squirrel causes one dad of two young children to reflect on how we can be b...
You Love Me Too, Mamma?: An Adoption Story
A writer and documentary filmmaker living in New York City and her husband adopt two young children ...
Love Is Love—and Love Is Taught by Example
My own mother set a tone of acceptance in our home. It was not something she preached to me and my b...
Bragging Rights: Yours, Mine, Every Parent's
Every parent brags a little bit, whether through Facebook posts or in conversation on the school pic...
'Ignore All My Advice,' Says this Dad to His Kids
Author and father Charles R. Scott of NYC writes a letter on boredom, wilderness, and love to his tw...
When a Wedding Invitation Is Something More
A New York City mom decides to take her son to his first gay wedding and uses it as a teaching momen...
Graduating from Asking for Advice to Giving It—Now That's a Good Thing
A mom raising a child with special needs with her family in New York City is empowered in her own si...
Reading Is Fun(damental)
Reading to our kids is great on every level—they learn and are entertained, we get to do a restful a...
Has It Come to This? Texting My Daughter though the Dressing Room Door
The teenage years bring lots of change, not least of which is to the nature of the mother-daughter r...
At the Intersection of Make-Believe & 'Making It Work'
A toddler's bond with his ailing great-grandmother becomes fodder for imaginary play, and his mom re...
Send a Different Message to Our Kids, Please
Research shows that certain toys are good for BOTH girls and boys—for development, learning, and pur...
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