Let’s celebrate single parenting.

Why don't we share the messy, hard moments of motherhood? They deserve to be celebrated too "For every diaper-blowout, volcanic-tantrum, screaming-standoff moment, there are thousands that, while imperfect, simply take my breath away."
For Troubled Kids, Some Schools Take Time Out For Group Therapy #HowToRaiseAHuman
The "Missing" First Year: Parents Underestimate the Benefits of Reading and Talking with Babies 63% of parents surveyed were unaware that children's language skills benefit from having adults talk to them starting at birth!
I want to be taken care of, too "there is nothing I love more than being your mom. And even though my role is to be your caretaker, you take care of me every day. You have given me a purpose, a reason to be my best self and you have helped me discover love I never knew existed. Because of you I feel whole, I feel needed and I feel like I’m right where I should be "
Why Free Play Is the Best Summer School "Unscheduled, unsupervised, playtime is one of the most valuable educational opportunities we give our children. "
Having kids makes people miserable, new study confirms I might be an unhappy co-parent with an unloving partner in parenthood, but I am at upmost happiest as a mother to my little human.
Two studies point to the power of teacher-student relationships to boost learning
How to raise a good person—instead of one who is just afraid of being bad "If we want them to make good decisions when we’re not around, they have to be motivated by more than just fear of getting in trouble." This is so so so so IMPORTANT!
9 Parenting Practices Around World
Doria Ragland sat alone at the royal wedding – because that’s what single parents do
This Powerful Tribute to Meghan Markle’s Mother took me by Surprise. "Everyone should read this—read and feel every word. Then call a single mama you know and and tell her she's amazing, because these women...they are superheroes."

Poem by Leslé Honoré
For the Dorias of the world
Who will sit alone
At graduations and weddings
At baseball games and school plays
At proms and award ceremonies
Who will carry the load
Of everything
Wiping tears
And celebrating
School projects
And first heartbreaks
Who stay up all night
Helping write papers and college apps
The mothers who silently
Create a universe for their children
Launching pads to toss them in to the
Solar system
With hands wide open to grab
All the stars their hearts desire
The Dorias who always leave space
For a father’s redemption
Knowing it may never come
Because they have spent a life time
Patching their children back together
Picking up the crushed spirits
Rebuilding them with love
This is for the Dorias
Who will watch as their legacies
Take steps towards their own journeys
Armed with love
Armed with hope
Armed with strength
That the years of struggle
Lack
Survival
Forged onto their souls
And for the children
Who have watched their mothers
Make a life out of thin air
A dollar out of 15 cents
Who have seen ceilings shattered
Barriers leapt over
And are covered in black girl magic
They know that there is
no limit
To their dreams
To success
that hard work can’t achieve
No trial that last forever
They have learned to
Weather the storms
Know for certain that the sun will come
Warm their faces
And illuminate their paths
The way their mothers have
From their first breath
For the Dorias
In that last car ride
Driving to your children’s
Next adventure
For the Dorias
Free spirited
And strong
Who know they are never alone
Who know there is a
Matriarchal militia marching
With them
I raise my glass to all of us
Salud

What Screen Time Can Really Do to Kids' Brains "If the damage happens during these crucial early years, its results can affect her forever." This is why I am SO SO SO adamant about no Ipad, phone and TV to Gabe!
Dear Kids, On the Days I Fail… "Sometimes I snap when I should be sensitive. Sometimes I lecture and give chores when what you needed was a hug. Sometimes I mistake your pain for complaining or your sad heart for a bad attitude. Sometimes I completely and utterly miss it. I know that I do. I watch myself miss it, and later I grieve that I didn’t respond differently."
Weekend lie-ins could help you avoid an early death, study says
The most powerful gift children give us. Are you missing it?
Parenting with Radical Acceptance
Johnson: Does speaking German change how I see social relationships?
But What About Maths? "Adults who have been through a traditional education system are conditioned to view maths education in a linear way that culminates in very abstract concepts you are unlikely to encounter naturally. It has left many of us feeling like this fountain of mathematical knowledge will only be bestowed upon the holder of textbooks and memoriser of principles."