Not every mother-daughter relationship reads like a Hallmark card, and our culture makes that a shameful secret to bear. Dr. Christiane Northrup suggested that the bonding hormones that flood a mother’s blood stream at childbirth stay with women for about 28 years. It is no accident, then,...
Because a gifted child's curiosity is insatiable, you must provide lots of age-appropriate enrichment. Our eldest daughter was a gifted child. She read voraciously from a very early age, guided always by her mother, who was a voracious reader of several languages. Our daughter grew up thinkin...
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39. “A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.”— Lois Wyse If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection ofmother and son quotesthat p...
My only daughter, who’s 27 now, has completely shut me out for over a year now! She has told my friends horrible lies about me just to justify her actions! My mother, who promised to take the two most important pieces of my life away, my daughter and grandson! My mother has succee...
Parents may experience all kinds of trials at all stages of parenting. Whether you’re hoping to be a parent soon, expecting a child, or already a parent, you may be dealing with mental health challenges or other concerns that you aren’t sure how to navigate. ...
Toronto mother of three Angela Lecompte can tell what her nine-year-old daughter, Kathryn, has been watching on TV by how she interacts with the rest of the family. “When she’s been watching iCarly or Victorious, she’s lippy with us,” she says. “But if she starts...
In her essay, My Hometown, she recalled that her parents immediately went back to their Manhattan apartment after her birth. That was so she could be raised as a true New Yorker. After her mother died, her father married a woman named Eleonor Lewis. ...
One final thought... have you ever been asked to provide "Mother's maiden name" or "Father's middle name" as a "security question" on a website, or anywhere else? There's a very good chance those answers are easily found with online genealogical search tools. If you ever are REQUIRED...
‘big city’ for a four-month sabbatical on an island in the middle of the Northumberland Strait in eastern Canada. Lorne’s mother Nina was born on Pictou Island, and in the 1960s they returned each summer for family vacations. In 1998, Lorne purchased the family land with the plan to...