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☆ I'm a mom of 2 teens. When they are out partying, they need to give me the address and phone of an adult present.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Natasha Chiam | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I must have the address where the party is happening and the phone number of an adult there. So I set some ground rules for my kids to party and for me to have peace of mind. We find a compromiseI miss the days when I knew most of my kids' friends and their parents and we all looked out for each other's offspring. Rule number two is that they have to always keep their location on and share it with us on their devices. Rule number three, one we just added, is that we need the contact info of whoever they believe is their most responsible friend.

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☆ Inside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of slavery and resilience
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The museum, Colonial Williamsburg, also has identified more than 80 children who lined its pinewood benches in the 1760s. Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of Virginia’s colonial capital through interpreters and hundreds of restored buildings. 18th century nails shoved in between hand craved joints in the stairs leading up to the second floor of the Williamsburg Bray School. And those are the things that give you strength — to know what your family has come through.”Janice Canaday outside the Williamsburg Bray School on Oct 30, 2024. Last year, it was transported to Colonial Williamsburg, which includes parts of the original city.

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☆ I went back to work as a personal trainer 5 weeks after giving birth. We needed the money, and I pushed past my pain.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Sarah Bregel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

My partner went back to work a few days after our baby was born, and I did the same after a few weeks. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . My partner went back to work a few days after I gave birth. We needed the moneyAs a young couple who had only just been starting out in their careers, of course, we needed the money. "Everyone does this," I'd tell myself.

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☆ I'm a doctor, CEO, and mother of 3. I set aside time to be fully present with my family every day, but I wish I had more to give.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I began a private practice, providing personalized psychiatric care and psychotherapy, focusing on women's mental health and perinatal mental health. I also now have a digital mental health platform. Now, as the cofounder and CEO, I'm caring for patients and working to raise awareness of relevant mental health issues. 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.:Dinner time is family time — I block my work calendar to be fully present during these hours. The evening usually involves playing with the toddlers and caring for the baby, but by this point, I'm pretty exhausted.

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☆ I had to downsize before a move. I found a box of my kids' baby clothes and relived so many memories.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Lauren Crosmedlicott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While downsizing in preparation for a move, Karen found two large plastic bins full of baby clothes. Sitting on the floor, clothes all around, I felt a strong sense of nostalgia and an overwhelming love for my kids. AdvertisementThe early days of motherhood are uniqueIn those early days, when they were completely bound to me, I bonded with them in such an intense way, present for them at every moment. Normally, I'm not sentimental, but those early days of motherhood are unique. I'll never have another human being attached to me, like when my kids were babies, and their clothes represented that for me.

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☆ My biggest parenting mistake was making my kids the center of my world. Women need an identity beyond 'mom.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Susan Yem | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I put my kids above my career and social life, making my whole life about motherhood. Now that my kids are out of the house and I'm alone, I'm struggling to understand who I am. Second, I advise them, especially mothers, not to make their children the center of their world. As my children grow and mature, I'm now working on figuring out who I am without them. But I want all mothers to remember that there will be life after your kids leave.

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☆ Child-focused parenting is exhausting. Some parents are finally ditching it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

This is known as child-focused parenting, a style devised in the 90s that has become the norm in the last decade. Gaskins isn't the only psychology professional against child-focused parenting. Ironically, child-focused parenting teaches kids that it's normal to forego your identity and boundaries. AdvertisementInstead of being prepared for adult life, "the child's world is completely separated from the adult world," Doucleff said. Woo, who teaches at UC Irvine, said she's witnessed the lasting effects of child-focused parenting.

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☆ My son dropped out of high school to teach himself and later decided against college. I supported him every step of the way.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Rachel Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewA few weeks before he turned 16, my older son pitched us a plan to leave high school on his upcoming birthday. So, I wasn't surprised when my son told me he wanted to drop out of high school to teach himself. AdvertisementOne day, I took them for a trial run at a K-8 Expeditionary Learning school that had recently formed in our small town. Related storiesPerhaps it was inevitable, then, that my older son felt increasingly hemmed in by his year-and-a-half at a public high school. Between 16 and 18, he began contracting as a filmmaker with the K-8 EL school he'd once attended.

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☆ Opinion: Why Anxiety from ‘Inside Out 2’ is such a relatable character to me
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

And while I would not say that I am the personification of anxiety, if you looked inside my head at the control board of my emotions, anxiety would be in charge more than I’d like to admit. Noah Berlatsky Noah BerlatskyMany people who live with a lot of anxiety would agree that anxiety is not a lot of fun. Anxiety doesn’t just keep Riley from her sleep, though. When I’m anxious, it’s often because I’m worrying about my loved ones. And her maybe obsessive attention and investment gives her some insights that Joy doesn’t have.

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☆ I was a stay-at-home mom for 7 years. When I updated my résumé, I realized that so much of mothering applies to jobs.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Nina Weierman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

For those in the daily grind, that is probably hard to understand, but as a stay-at-home mom, there are things that I miss about having a job to go to every day. Things like getting dressed and having conversations with someone above the age of 6, for one, but also things like doing work that is validated by society. I felt like I needed to explain the gap in my resuméOnce I finished editing my résumé, I couldn't help feel the need to explain more about what I have been doing as a stay-at-home mom. Related storiesJust the term "stay-at-home" mom makes me cringe because it immediately brings up these images of a woman sitting in her house to mind. Yet here I am, just hoping someone will read between the lines on my résumé on everything that means to be "just" a mom.

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☆ It was only after my mom died that I truly learned how to have compassion for her — and myself
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Tracey Yokas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Theo and Bob set up beach chairs. I'd been journal-writing, reading, thinking, and talking more to my therapist about compassion, and I'd realized that she was right. Similar to how I'd never learned how to repair communication, talk about difficult feelings, or set healthy boundaries. I handed a single flower to Theo, Faith, and Bob, and kept one for myself. At the water's edge, we spoke about my mom, Lauraine: mom, grandmother, partner, friend, survivor, vilomah — parent whose child died.

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☆ Moms are flocking to use desks that have cribs attached. They say it allows them to balance motherhood with their careers.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"I'll try to time it so I can feed her, put her down in the play desk area, and do some work that doesn't involve calls." The work and play desk is a sort of cubicle designed for parents and children. AdvertisementMaegan Moore uses the play desk at Worplayce Courtesy of Maegan MooreMoore doesn't use the desk for long stretches of time — about an hour or two is her current limit. That setup more accurately matches the lives of many modern working parents, Crystal said. Decoupling work and kids from these arbitrary 9-to-5 work days or 9-to-3 day care days is the first step to making a life that works for you," she said.

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☆ I don't think my kids owe me a 'thank you' on Mother's Day. Everything I do for them is part of being a mom.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Ashley Austrew | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mother's Day has always made me uncomfortable. But on Mother's Day especially, I wonder, what exactly is the point of all this sentimental excess, and just what are we meant to be celebrating? The day seems to perpetuate bad things about being a motherTo me, Mother's Day perpetuates some of our culture's worst ideas about mothers and women. Mother's Day cards worship benevolent mother figures who "do it all" dutifully, gracefully, and always with a smile. I also wonder why my kids should thank me on Mother's DayWhat is it our kids are thanking us for on Mother's Day?

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☆ After my husband transitioned into my wife, I struggled to think of her as another mother to our kids
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Jess Decourcy Hinds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But when my partner transitioned into a woman, I struggled to see her as another mother to our kids. AdvertisementAfter my husband transitioned to female and became my wife, I was taken aback when a friend wished us both a Happy Mother's Day. Mother's Day promises a token gesture of pampering and the invitation of self-care, a thank you for all we do. Mother's Day became confusingOn our second Mother's Day after her transition, Stefanie gave me flowers, as always; I gave her nothing and felt terrible. Did it matter whether we called it Father's Day or a June Mother's Day?

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☆ How Mother Figures Impact Our Lives
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

For Mother’s Day, The Times asked readers to tell us about the mother figures in their lives. KELLY SANDOVAL, 48, SQUAMISH, B.C., CANADAI come from a multicultural background, but the Puerto Rican side of the family lived far away. When I showed up, Linda, my host mother, picked me up from the bus stop and made me tea and crumpets. If I had a nightmare and woke my mother up, she would tell me to climb into bed with Rita. During that year I also moved into my first apartment, away from the guidance of my mother.

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☆ Opinion | The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Too much life enters this house,” Tillie Olsen, the writer, labor activist and mother of four daughters, wrote in a letter to the poet Anne Sexton. Olsen and Sexton were among the early recipients of a paid fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. In some ways, remarkable progress has been made for American women since then — at the time, for example, it was perfectly legal to fire a woman for getting pregnant. (In other ways, we have returned to the 19th century.) The book made me ponder whether some of the conflicts that parents feel between their family responsibilities and other parts of their lives can be fully resolved.

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☆ My teenage son is pushing me away. I'm heartbroken and proud of him.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Shanti Brien | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read preview"Tell me about your day," I lobbed to my 15-year-old son, hoping my command for details would prevent his customary "It was fine." My son, my baby, my secretly favorite child, couldn't even bear 10 minutes of talking? The Littlest Bear, a small pudge of brown fur, asks his mom in a slight peep, "Am I your favorite?" Yes, my son is breaking up with me, exactly as he is supposed to do.

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☆ I felt guilty for going on a kid-free vacation. Then a stranger convinced me every parent deserves a break.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Lindsay Karp | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"Sometimes parents need to get away alone," I responded repeatedly. This controversy is what steers some parents away from a much-needed child-free escape. Lindsay Karp realized that she felt guilty for leaving her kids with their grandparents on vacation, but her husband was able to relax. The concept of mothers craving a break from parenting and then missing their children the moment they're gone seems universal. When I'm not with them, I find myself wondering what they're doing, whether they're happy, and if they're feeling well.

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☆ A bunch of analysts just hiked price targets for these 2 stocks, giving them over 65% upside
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-20 | by ( Ganesh Rao | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Eight analysts upgraded their target prices on two Canadian stocks in the past week, giving both more than 65% upside potential. Wedbush Securities analysts Gerald Pascarelli and Antoine Legault hiked their price target for the stock's U.S.-listed shares to $2.50, giving it an upside of 18%. Investment banks Beacon Securities and Alliance Global Partners are significantly more bullish on the stock, giving it upside of 110% and 75%, respectively. VerticleScope reported revenue of $17.9 million, compared to $16.6 million expected by analysts. However, analysts believe the worst is behind it, as all eight covering the stock raised their price targets after the company's earnings.

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☆ After my sister killed her abusive partner, I raised their 2 children. I've learned a lot about sistering and mothering.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-20 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

My sister, Nikki Addimando, was at the police station. I needed to pick up my nephew Ben, who was 4, and his sister Faye, who was 2. Over the course of the day I learned that my sister had shot and killed her partner, the father of her children, a person I had known for a decade. Eventually, I would learn that her partner, Chris Grover, was horrifically abusive, and she killed him to save her own life. It's easy to tell kids things are fine and they are safe.

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☆ Opinion: What Princess of Wales photo really shows - a monarchy struggling
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Opinion Rosa Prince | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

This photo released by Kensington Palace shows Kate, Princess of Wales, with her children, Prince Louis, left, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. In a constitutional monarchy where kings and queens wield little actual, but plenty of soft power, visibility is everything. Perhaps the biggest clue: How on earth had William managed to capture all three children smiling at the same time? The palace meanwhile failing to issue a comment for long hours while the nation dove head first down the rabbit hole. More than 12 hours later, Kate finally responded: “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” she said on social media.

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☆ My kids went to school in Bolivia and Armenia. It was coming back to the US that was hardest for them to adjust.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Lia Miller | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

School shootings in the US impacted their mental health. AdvertisementMy children have had the unique and wonderful opportunity to grow up overseas and attend school in Bolivia and Armenia. We lived in Bolivia when they were in lower elementary school and Armenia when they were in middle and upper elementary school, respectively. I had to listen to the thoughts and fears my children expressed to understand the impact that school shootings were having on them. and "Why are school shootings happening in the United States so often and not as much overseas?"

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☆ When Women Artists Choose Mothering Over Making Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Ligaya Mishan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Fred Smith died young, of heart failure, in 1994 and, after a period of mourning, Patti Smith returned to New York and the music scene. If anything, it belonged to the language of platitudes and affirmations, far removed from punk’s mutinous liturgy. That there might be a connection between liberated sex and getting pregnant seems not to have occurred to McNeil. Nevertheless, for women artists, motherhood — venerated in theory, belittled in practice — is still seen, by others and often themselves, as an obstacle, if not the end. This year, as the mother of a 9-month-old, she revealed that she was pregnant again.

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☆ We sold our house to live in an RV and travel the US. It's not as carefree as we expected.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Aleja and Blake Briles sold their home in Dallas and bought a $100,000 RV to tour the country. They didn't anticipate the challenges RV life would present, especially parking outside of RV parks. Their advice for people new to RV life is to plan your visits ahead and expect to make repairs. We lived in that house for four and a half years, then we sold it in 2021 to do this. The certain RV lifestyle that we chose was more off-grid and out in nature and not tucked into an RV park.

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☆ ‘Never Have I Ever’ comes to an end. Its stars reflect on what made the show so special
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

For one, she wasn’t the only South Asian person there. For another, she and her fellow South Asian castmates Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Poorna Jagannathan were the leads of the show. “From that day forward, every day that I was on set until the last day we wrapped up season four, that realization hit me every single day,” Moorjani said in a Zoom call. And as the beloved show comes to an end, its stars are reflecting back on its legacy. That she is the lead of the show is in itself significant for South Asian representation.

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