How to have a healthy Vegan pregnancy
Healthy vegetarian and vegan diets can do wonders for you, and are also perfectly fine to continue while pregnant. In fact, there’s no reason that you can’t raise your own tiny vegetarian or vegan!
Playing with toy weapons: inevitable or preventable?
Is it possible to prevent weapons — real or fake — from becoming part of your child’s play and reality?
How do you deal with Mom guilt?
What is it about Mommies and guilt? What is it about that sweet, open, tabula rasa of a face that opens the gates to the guilt hounds and releases them, yelping and baying, around my brain?
The terrorism of health recommendations for mothers
“It seems like every time I turn around there is another warning about BPA, VOCs or phthalates in products. Just how terrified should I be?”
Everybody deals with death differently: my advice for how to talk to those of us who’ve lost a child
At the dentist, getting my nails done, meeting new people, often times the fact that I have a son who has passed away (how’s that one sound?) ends up coming up in the conversation. I worry about it often because it’s not something most people are prepared to handle talking about. Should you be overly sympathetic? Ignore it?
Using myth to teach your toddler about life
One of my greatest joys as a mother to a toddler has been translating the world to my son, one little story at a time. At his age, 2, concerns over sleep patterns and eating habits have taken a backseat to his emotional and cognitive development. His reasoning is budding but still rudimentary, which leaves me, his guide, a liberty I haven’t known since my own childhood — to interpret the environment.
A neurology nerd dad with a penchant for ice cream
Craig is a nerdy and fabulous DILF and step-dad to Kyler.
How do you find offbeat parent friends?
Once you’re well into adulthood, how do you find your people? Stephanie and I will both take a stab at answering, and then we’d love to hear from Offbeat Mamas themselves about how they do it!