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parenthood Archive
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Finding My Path to Motherhood
–by Ginger C. Hanson, PhD As a genXer, growing up in an active LDS family, I struggled with the seemingly... -
Motherhood Is Not the Essense of my Personhood
Dear Kennedy, Marin, and Stuart, Mother’s Day is tomorrow. Mother’s Day is not my favorite–for a whole host of... -
“Motherhood” in six short words
A few months ago, I was lucky enough to spend three blissful days reading, writing, walking, jogging, eating, and mostly... -
Mormon Moms Meet Yale
For the past few years, I’ve been a part of a wildly ambitious ward project that my friend, Lia Collings,... -
Parenthood Juggle: We Co-Get-It-Done
When I was a young mother, a series of events occurred that changed my life. In 1995, a woman the... -
Stages and Flexibility: My Communications Career Juggle
Before becoming a mom, I spent three years in magazine editing and high-tech public relations. The birth and adoption of... -
Parenthood Juggle: Wanting it All
I was intent on having career (not just job) options with my humanities degree, no matter what educational step I... -
Parenthood Juggle: Piano Lessons are Worth It
I didn’t yearn for a career. Sometimes it feels like-looking back-that I just fell into it. I was... -
Parenthood Juggle: Full-time mom/part-time rocket scientist?
Only since September, when I participated in measuring the noise from a solid rocket motor, have I been able to... -
Parenthood Juggle: Musings on Gender Roles in Mormonism
So if you’re a stay at home dad, awesome. I salute you as a brother. If you’re a... -
Parenthood Juggle: Figuring It Out As You Go Along
How have we taken care of our little ones? The first year of my son’s life was a complicated,... -
Guest Post Invitation: The Parenthood Juggle
I want my daughters (and my son!) to be able to read about other women’s struggles. How did they... -
20 Psaltery & Lyre: Joshua Lyons, Two Poems
“I lay down in my bed, nobody / beside me tonight because / I have the boy.” -
Babies and Grad School
Today’s guest post is written by Caitlin. My first week of grad school ended in an emotional break-down, not unlike... -
21 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Foot (or Church)
The “nicer” men are about the patriarchal structure of the church, the more likely it is to be perpetuated. The... -
20 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Church
I have brought my daughter, dressed up and nervous with anticipation, gift in hand, to a birthday party where the... -
Mind the Gap
I recently re-read Carol Lynn Pearson’s amazing No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones for the... -
Roller Coaster
A year ago, I was living in a daze. I was spending most nights curled up against my... -
Santa and I
The year I turned four or five, we drove to my grandparents in central Wisconsin for Christmas. Actually, we... -
Bearing One Another’s Burdens
Anyone who knows me even the least little bit knows that I’m quite open and honest about my failings as... -
Finding Peace
Forgiveness. As babies and young children, we can’t help but forgive those that wrong us. We have no... -
Slipping through God’s Fingers
In August, I underwent a 40-hour training to become a guardian ad litem or a “CASA” (court-appointed special advocate) for... -
Crash Test
The thought of any inexperienced driver in charge of a 4,000 pound machine makes me very nervous, but anticipating my... -
We Are Pioneers
As I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we’re all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up... -
The Gluttonous Baby
For as long as humans have made objects, there have been baby dolls. It’s an almost universal phenomenon that... -
Operation Stop Arm
My neighbor Sheri and I watched motorists pass our children’s school bus for years. We took video, called the police,... -
‘Men’ in the Dock
This is a post about men. This is a post about women. No wait, this is a post about ‘men’.... -
Papa, Watch me Fly!
On Sunday nights, we gather all the piles of clean laundry into the living room and fold it while watching... -
The Illusion of Equality
Today, a guest post from Helen. I read a review of Rebecca Asher’s book the week it came out in... -
Parental Involvement: The Gold Standard
We hold these truths to be self-evident-that all good parents are involved in their children’s education. They bring food (homemade... -
BUTT-erfly T-shirts for Mother’s Day
My first child was born on January 5. The months between her birth and Mother’s Day were, um, let’s just... -
The Joys of Parenthood
Why do we have such a hard time admitting to the realities of parenthood? This morning a dear friend of... -
Fff… family
I just read this today and loved it: http://www.literarymama.com/columns/perfectlynormal/archives/2011/ffffamily.html A great reminder that not all families look alike (which clearly... -
Helping an Orphanage in Ethiopia
One of my dearest and oldest friends (one of two friends without whom I would not have survived high school)... -
The Grass is Always Greener
I just got back from a fancy schmantzy conference for educational researchers in New Orleans. I submit proposals every year... -
Delousing the Kids
This beautiful poem was written by my dear friend, Dayna Patterson, after patiently listening to me whine about our 2010... -
An Unlikely Prayer of Thanksgiving
Last summer, Brent and Stuart went to get a haircut. While there, the stylist discovered that Stuart had lice (gasp!).... -
My Own (not-so-little-anymore) Dancing Boy
My son Stuart turned 8 in February and was baptized as a member of our church last Sunday. (Children... -
“Do you want to end up living under a bridge?”
This is, reportedly, what my daughter’s second grade teacher asked her class during a fit of frustration over their less-than-enthusiastic... -
Celebrating the Man As Well As His Cause
A guest post from a reader, Debra. Names matter. They do. My life experience has taught me this. Names are... -
Black Swan
Today’s post is from a guest that we’ll call ‘White Cygnet’. I didn’t expect Black Swan to strike at my... -
Forbidden Fruit
So, I just finished reading an absolutely fascinating book called Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American... -
London Calling
[UPDATED] I took a call from London at four this morning — that’s 11 AM London time. It was my... -
Memories
A grateful resident presented me with a chocolate turkey, wrapped in beautiful multicolored foil. Then she looked around... -
Care to join me for guitar practice, anyone?
But when you have three kids who all have to be in three different places at the same time, the... -
Fei Hua (Chinese for “wasted words”)
I got to my office one morning and this cartoon was taped to my door: I knew right away who... -
Keeping My Hand In
Four years on, I’m in a slump and I’m really just keeping my hand in. -
Urban Camping Part I
My husband and I have tried lots of different divisions of parental responsibilities over almost 14 years. When we...