Tick Season is Getting Here Earlier and Spreading Wider than Ever Before

Media has given more attention to ticks and tick season in the last few years and with good reason. Tick risk now covers over half the nation, with New England and mid-Atlantic hardest hit. The highest risk also comes as we are outside most--spring and summer. Aside from Lyme disease,...

Moving with Baby

In 2012, my husband started a new job, and we bought our first house. We moved in on a Friday, and our third baby was born the following Saturday. I always joked that we don’t recommend moving and having a baby at the same time, so when we found ourselves...

Tags: Infants, Toddlers

Parenting with a Side of Empathy

Momming is tough even on its best days, never mind when your parental choices are being scrutinized daily on social media by complete strangers.  Enter Chrissy Teigan, who may just be my spirit animal in the mom world. She is one half of a celebrity couple, remains outspoken about what...

Llama Llama Calmer Mama: Kids' Books that Model Gentle Parenting

Llama Llama’s tired mamaRead her books to stop her dramaOver and over the same books she readFrom the moment she woke up until she went to bedLlama Llama’s tired mamaTalked to her girl about her dramaShe used the words from the stories she readAnd watched them work into her heart...