Parenting Wisdom

With the start of summer comes yummy local fresh food like fruits and veggies, and there is no better place to get them than at a local farmers' market. We have so many great options to choose from here...

How many pre-pregnancy, expecting, postpartum, the first years, toddler years type books have you read? Although they all provide wonderful bits of information, they leave some important everyday things out! Why didn't you tell me!? When I had my first...

(sigh) The good old days…before the iPhone. Imagine there was a time when you weren’t constantly barraged by communication. Instead of texting or emailing, there was only snail mail and landlines. Imagine that If you were out, you couldn’t be interrupted. Grocery...

Some women love breastfeeding and have a great experience. This article is not for those women. This is for the women struggling. To let them know breast is not always best.  Before my first child, I prepared to be an...

You don't know this about me, but I’m an intuitive medium. Basically, I can connect with people who have passed away. I feel so vulnerable saying this, but it’s the truth. My whole life, I’ve just “known” things, and...

Recently, I read a blog post entitled “Don’t Water the Weeds” on Fairfield County Mom suggesting that paying more attention to positive behaviors and less attention to negative behaviors in our children can have surprising benefits. As a clinical...

  A few years ago, an article popped up on my Facebook newsfeed entitled "A Letter From a Working Mother to a Stay-At-Home Mother (and Vice Versa)" by Dr. Carolyn Ee. Both my working mom friends and stay-at-home moms alike were enthusiastically...

I have a complicated relationship with social media. In being part of the generation that is fully immersed in the evolution of social networking, I can say with confidence that having information, in many different forms across many different mediums,...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and has been observed as such in the United States since 1949. The purpose of Mental Health Awareness Month is to raise awareness and educate the public about mental health conditions and the...

How do we fit it all in moms? The answer is that we don't because it's impossible! How to Mom and Work From Home Balancing working from home, having a baby and toddler home from preschool this year due to the...