Easy DIY: decorating baby & kid clothes with freezer paper stencils
Here’s an easy-peasy DIY tutorial for making your own freeze paper stencils so you can get decorating those clothes — yours OR your kid’s!
Buying Time: A feminist mom gets humbled
As a parent, I have accepted and even come to cherish the stages of development my kids weave in and out of … but I also more-recently realized, someday in the not-so-distant future, this little girl is going to fall in love, have sex, and quite likely have her heart broken.
How do we pick a preschool that’s right for us?
How did you find the preschool that was right for your family? Is there a super secret password that I need to know?
Keeping our Offbeatlings upbeat in the face of gender judgement
The world is a difficult place for children… how can a sensitive child feel free to express himself differently from others in a world where “different” is “bad?”
Notes to baby: a pregnancy documented in photos
Rachel documented her pregnancy in photos each week and managed to look totally stunning every time — check out that week 30 sassy stance!
Why getting judgey about parenting is ok
This tweet showed up in my reader the other day: Realised something about myself today: I am not non-judgey enough to read Offbeat Families. I don’t even have kids! WTF do I know? But here’s the thing: For me, the key for reading this site isn’t to avoid all judgement, but to recognize when it’s happening.
What can I say to people who tell me I’ll get pregnant if I “just relax?”
“Oh, just CHILL OUT and you’ll be pregnant in no time!” Right? Right? Wrong.
Was it Moctezuma’s revenge? Nope: I was just in labor.
Molly recently published a post on Offbeat Mama about ditching the U.S. health care system in favor of Mexico’s to have her second child — here’s how it went!