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When Mom Gets Sick
Family
Written by Heather Cabot   
100sickmom52608.jpgIt is one thing to care for a sick baby. Even two babies, plus a husband I can handle.  But when I found myself suddenly dashing for the ladies' room as I tried to conceal my distress from my twin two-year-olds, I was facing an all together new kind of challenge.  What happens when the caregiver is so sick she can't care for anyone else, let alone herself?  Of course, I am speaking about temporary incapacitation. 
 
Can You Forgive a Terrible Parent?
Family
Written by Lisa McLeod   

100communictae52608.jpgIf your childhood played out like a scene from "Mommy Dearest," you know that poor parenting often casts a pallor over your entire life. While you might not have written a tell-all book or exposed their evil antics on the silver screen, the movie called "My Awful Childhood" plays in endless reruns inside your head.

 

 
Great Expectations Are Often Blindsided by Dirty Diapers
Family
Written by Lisa Earle McLeod   
dirtydiapers51808100.jpgOne of the biggest surprises to many people is how merging your DNA with the one you love can drive your relationship onto the off ramp and have you searching for the nearest exit faster than you can scream, "Who lost the binky that's supposed to be clipped to this car seat?
 
For Better Or Worse: A Plane Ride With Young Kids, From Both Sides of the Marital Fence
Family
Written by Tom and Cynthia Papa   
airportsmall.pngTom and Cynthia have a good life. They have been married for eight years. They are raising two little girls, 5 and 2. They are both comedians. They do just about everything together.

But like many married couples, they sometimes seem like they are living in two different realities. Shortly after Christmas they packed up the family, left their New York City apartment, and headed home to Los Angeles. We asked them to tell us what was going on in each of their heads during this cross-country trip to see just how different the very same experience can be.
 
Battling the Bulge: When Baby Fat Won't Let Go of Your Child's Belly, It's Time to Take Action
Family
Written by Barbara Dehn, N.P.   
battlethebulge.jpgI noticed that my adorable 10-year-old son was wearing a T-shirt with his bathing suit to cover up his nolonger-little and now-somewhat-flabby tummy. The little tummy that I loved to tickle and kiss was a little bigger, and gee, now that you mention it, his face does seem a little fuller in photographs.
 
Last-Chance Parenting: Musing on the Final Baby
Family
Written by Shannon Hyland-Tassava   
istock_000005617729xsmall100.jpgMy newborn daughter Genevieve just turned three months old. Thus, she has entered what is, I think, my very favorite period of babyhood: the three-to-six-month-old stage. There's something about this age that I just adore; I did so with my firstborn daughter too.
 
Mentor or Meddler? Is Mom the Monkey in the Middle?
Family
Written by Lisa Earle McLeod   
istock_000002917384xsmall100.jpgI have to wonder how many paid hours of shrink time have been spent complaining about the shortfalls of mothers? She's too controlling, she's too critical, she's not supportive enough, she didn't spend enough time with time me, she spent too much time with me, she doesn't have her own life, she's too busy with her own life.
 
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