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Marriage Lessons I Learned in Grad School (Part 1)

by Tara Pringle Jefferson I told you guys I was heading back to school to get a degree in Family Studies, which meant I would be spending my nights studying healthy families and strategies to make dysfunctional families whole again. I also said I'd share any interesting tidbits I come across and wouldn't you know, I'm ready to start sharing! In our reading last week, we learned about "the … [Continue reading...]

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Letter To A Pregnant Me

Letter received: April 2006 Dear Young Mommy, Hey there, how are you? Word on the street is you're freaked out about the baby on the way. You're panicking. You're scared. This pregnancy wasn't planned and you are about to graduate in a year. You're 20 years old and know nothing about babies. This is bad timing, admittedly. But you know what? I'm here to tell you that all is not … [Continue reading...]

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9 Things I Wish I Did Before I Had My Second Kid

1. Upgrade items from baby #1. Since I got pregnant with my son a few days shy of my daughter's first birthday, a lot of her baby items were still in semi-decent shape and would be good to use with the new baby. Or so I thought. I should have realized that a cute little diaper bag that worked wonders with one baby might not do the job after two years of use and twice as much crap stuffed inside. … [Continue reading...]

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Why It’s So Difficult to Raise a Toddler

The alternate title to this post could be, "How I resisted strangling my daughter and in the end was glad I didn't." So. Here we go. It was a typical Friday afternoon. Kids were happy, home from daycare, I'm scrambling to make dinner, the hubby is...I dunno, somewhere. The usual. My daughter is asking for a banana or yogurt or something. I don't remember. But she's not really asking. She's … [Continue reading...]

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Ask the YoungMommy readers: When to start discipline?

We're opening up the mailbag again, because as I always say, I don't know everything. Let's use our collective experience to help out another one of my good friends sort out this discipline dilemma: I wanna know, when do you start to discipline your child? What's too young, what's too late? How do you discipline an infant starting to get into everything or exhibiting behaviors you don't … [Continue reading...]

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Ask the YoungMommy readers: Sex and the single mom?

Okay, I have a good friend who is a wonderful mommy to a devilishly handsome 8-month old baby boy. The father (if you want to call him that) is no longer in the picture. She needs our help trying to figure out this dating mess. Her quandary is below: "I basically want to know how the eff it's possible! How do you balance time between your child (especially if you're an insane parent like me and … [Continue reading...]

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An easier way to go up the nose?

I know I struggle with getting the mucus (snot?) out my kids' nose. I'm no good at it. My poor babies suffer every time they get a cold. I'm beginning to think it's my old-school aspirator. I mean, if I graduated magna cum laude from college, birthed two babies, got glowing reviews during my first year of full-time employment, there is no way I am too dumb to squeeze a stupid bulb. So when I saw … [Continue reading...]

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Wish I knew: How to deal with a clingy kid

I thought I knew what to expect with my son. I figured, I had been a mom for almost two years now, I should have the hang of this, right? Right, guys? *crickets* I didn't. My son refused to be put down for anything. If I didn't want him to cry, I would need to hold him. Almost instantly he would stop. It drove me bananas. So I posed this question to my YoungMommy readers and here are some of … [Continue reading...]

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