10 Reflections From A First-Time NICU Mom
Never did I imagine the NICU would be where my daughter would spend the first month and three days of her life. Here’s what I learned.
Late-Term Abortionist Offers Mothers The Chance To Cuddle Their Dead Babies
The open practice of killing then cuddling does not simply represent a ghastly declaration that children are both fully human and disposable. It signifies a war against the mother-child bond.
Q&A: Pregnancy Gets Better With Practice, And How To Handle SAHM Blues
The Federalist’s lady writers somehow decided that I should write an advice column. I don’t feel especially wise, but they had questions and I had opinions, so here’s the inaugural column.
How Western Career Women Create Motherless Villages At Home And Abroad
While leftist women in the West push for less family structure and more centralized child support, they disrupt not only their own families but also families around the world.
Yes, Motherhood Is A Privilege, But It’s Exactly The Opposite Of Selfish
Unlike Karen Rinaldi, I don’t believe motherhood is selfish. If anything, parenthood may be the world’s longest and most intense self-improvement class.
Moms Need To Stop Degrading Our Job As Brainless, Because It’s Not
Those of us who do homemaking know that it is intellectually demanding work. But we’re still happy to denigrate our roles. Why?
Think Tank: Reconsider Caring For Your Kids Because Money Matters Most
The Center For American Progress wants you to know that giving up your full-time career to care for your kids is a huge financial mistake.
You Will Never Be A Perfect Mother, And You Can Live With That
Not being maximally risk-averse is sensible. But when the worst happens, we must find a way to live with the knowledge that we didn’t do all we could. No parent is immune from this.
Feminist Divorce Law Is What’s Keeping Women As Primary Caregivers
The main perpetuator of women as default caregivers is family law, specifically custody law in the case of divorce.
How To Stop Whining And Learn To Love Being A Mother
Women are standing in the way of their own joy because they have bought into a peculiarly destructive myth: that anything they do not know how to do cannot be done.
Paying Someone To Sleep Train Your Baby While You Vacation Is Everything Wrong With Modern Parenting
The sleep training thing is indicative of a larger problem. After the dawn of the baby boomers, parenting morphed into pleasing, and then my generation took that to the next evolution.
When Mothers Who Paused Their Careers Hit Play Again
The ‘opt-out revolution’ of highly educated moms who take time off work to raise children includes me. Now I’m on the way back in.
Kellyanne Conway Says Kids Matter To Working Moms, Lefty Media Loses Its Mind
Kellyanne Conway’s remarks are not shocking. This is merely a kick-ass career lady opening up about what’s inside her head on a topic of great interest.
How It Feels To Send A Beloved Daughter Off To College
Without pushing my daughter into the kind of education I had always wanted but didn’t have as a poor immigrant, I gained a daughter who appreciates the good in life.
Giving Birth Is Nothing Like Being Drafted Into Combat
Stop pretending all mothers sacrifice more by giving birth than our combat troops do by fighting.
6 Tips To Prevent Mother’s Day Disappointment
Like most holidays, Mother’s Day can come loaded with high expectations for us moms. Protect yourself from the inevitable disappointment, because no day is ever perfect.
A Little Mother Prevents Big Brother
Mothers are the ultimate force for de-centralizing and distributing power in society. That’s the best reason to celebrate Mother’s Day—perpetually.
It’s Okay For Babies To Swallow ‘Me Time’
To claim that regular, long breaks from one’s children are necessary to mental health is to fight the reality that the season of one’s life has changed.
In 2015, Resolve To Stop Comparing Motherhood To A Job
We measure careers by earnings, specialization, and competition for entry. But motherhood deserves entirely different criteria for respect.