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Meet a Mom: Ashley Audrain of The Push

  This week’s Meet a Mom interview is with The Push author Ashley Audrain! This Toronto-based writer’s debut novel was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, as well as a Good Morning America book club pick. An addictive, dark read, it follows Blythe, a...

Mess-Free Arts & Crafts

We love to see our kids get creative, make art, play, and proudly show us their masterpiece. What we don’t love so much? The mess. So when we stumbled across a post about Less Mess Arts & Crafts for Kids from Home with the Harrisons (a lifestyle and parenting blog...

How to Talk about Black History Month & Race with Kids

  February is Black History Month. If you’re looking for ways this month (and always) to celebrate Black History and have age appropriate discussions about race and racism, you’ll want to bookmark our latest interview with our psychology contributor, Reon...

Olympic Dad: Luger Chris Mazdzer!

Parenting can feel like an Olympic sport, which makes the actual moms and dads who make it to the Olympics seem even more impressive. Just in time for the 2022 Winter Games in Bejing, we caught up with Salt Lake City-based Chris Mazdzer, a soon-to-be fourth time...

Deciding What’s Next: Career After Motherhood

This story was contributed Lindsay Hurty, cofounder of Everwell. I visited the Career Services Office exactly one time during my senior year of college, and I received this advice: ‘You do not need to figure out your whole life; you just need to figure out what’s...

Meditation 101: Getting Started with a Mindfulness Routine!

  If there’s ever a time to look for new tools to center yourself, it’s January 2022. Meditation is one of the best tools out there, and not only is it naturally free, but you can do it virtually anywhere. It can even help you be a better, more patient parent. We...

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