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From Love to Suicide: Why Falling in Love is Dangerous for Children of Abuse
For many children of abuse, it is the first time they have been truly happy in their lives. Listen to how this subconscious, emotional minefield makes love a hot mess. Download:...
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Why Being a Full Time Parent is a Bad Idea
As someone who came from an abusive home, I knew what I did not want to do as a parent and how much “I am a good parent because I love my child and therefore everything I do is right” was wrong. Photo...
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Help! My Teenager is Out of Control!
Being a parent to a teenager is like being a lame duck president; they pretty much know they can wait you out. You can take things away, add privileges, and try to control their environment but, at the...
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is a choice.
In order to make a difficult decision, Reddit user pinkybones decided to make a list of things that are true. And then it took off. Wanting something does not change reality. …I could die, and it...
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Love is Not Infinite
We fall in love, we fall out of love. People who promised to love each other until the end of their days can be rancorously divorced within a decade. But with children it is supposed to be different....
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How I Stop From Abusing My Child (Part 1)
As a child of an abusive home, I discovered that, no, I had not escaped unscathed from the physical and emotional abuse of my parents; I knew that becoming a parent would be risky. Incredibly risky. I...
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How I Stop From Abusing My Child (part 2)
I don’t force a schedule. I discovered very quickly that anytime I needed to rush my son to get somewhere, I was gonna have a bad time. I found myself highly anxious and stressed, and that frustration...
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The Fantasy of Mother’s Day
Last year was my ‘first’ Mother’s Day…it was the day I decided to divorce my own mother. I was 7 months pregnant and going down the internet rabbit hole of Mother’s Day clicky links when I came across...
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Holy Cow, Parenting Got Easier!
Each little step toward independence is like its own little miracle, for real. Dyson is no longer going to any kind of daycare or nanny. A very wise man – you know who you are! – once told me that no...
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