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Home Management Tips for the Busy Mom

Achieve Zen at home and kick stress to the curb by following these simple home management tips.

Six Secrets of Organized Moms

A mom often wears many hats, taxi driver, cook, housekeeper, bread-winner, shoulder to cry on, and more. So, how does mom juggle it all? The following are six secrets of organized moms to help make things easier: 1. Routines. Organized moms serve dinner at the same time each night, have strict bed times, have after school [...]

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Teen Parenting for Adults

I’m going to go ahead and start off with the elephant in the room: I am twenty-nine years old and my daughter is just shy of fourteen. That’s right: long before teen pregnancy and parenting were made trendy by such shows as 16 And Pregnant and The Secret Life of an [...]

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Coping with the Challenges of a Stay At Home Mom (SAHM)

I have always wanted to be a stay-at-home Mom, mostly because I grew up with a mother I seldom saw because she was a career woman. And though I have made my peace with my childhood and her parenting, I still chose to be a SAHM and absolutely looked for a man who will support [...]

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Surviving the Challenges of Being a Single Mom

Raising children isn’t a small task for families that have both parents. When you hear, “it takes a village to raise a child,” it is very true. When you’re a village of one, you face even more challenges. No matter what your situation is, there is nothing easy about raising children, but just know that [...]

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How to Keep Your Sanity with Housework

Keeping house is like threading beads on a string with no knot. Learn 6 tips to keep your sanity.

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Dealing with Feelings of Inadequacy as a Mother

Whirling and swirling, you hear things like: You aren’t doing a good job She doesn’t deal with her son that way Would my mother do it like this? What does everything think if I raise my voice? What if I lose control? These are just some of the things I hear in my head when I have doubts about being a [...]

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Challenges of Being a Working Mom

I’ll admit it. Before diapers and baby talk, I was one of those women who envied those other women who “got to stay home and take care of the kids”. Visions of leisurely mornings, slipper-covered feet lounging on the couch with a cup of coffee and the remote in-hand, I too wanted to stay home [...]

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