You Do Not Have to Explain Your Parenting Choices to Me
Beyond the Bump Parenting is hard. Caring for and guiding other humans is hard. For most decisions parents must make, there is no single right answer. Breast or bottle? Crib or co-sleep? Daycare or stay-at-home parent? Screens or no...
Experienced Parents Reading List
Books This spring I published a new parents reading list, covering lots of newborn and infant topics. But what about those of us raising bigger kids? Here are a few books I find useful and interesting (affiliate links): The...
There Is No Secret
Jen's Musings I’m here to break it to you. There’s no secret to parenting. There’s no 3 easy steps (popular “discipline” manuals aside). It’s messy. It takes your whole-hearted participation. You...
Why I Don’t Encourage Pregnant Moms to Attend Breastfeeding Support Groups
Articles Ok, the headline is a little misleading . . . I think it’s good for pregnant moms to attend breastfeeding support groups, but not as their only breastfeeding preparation. As a leader of peer-to-peer breastfeeding...