If your faith is important to you and your parenting, there are healthy and unhealthy ways to connect God with adoption. And they probably aren’t what you think.… Continue Reading
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Ask the Practice Parent: Quitting a Long-term, Expensive Activity
Dear Practice Parent, I have been playing piano for 10 years. I used to love it, but now I only kind of like it. I’m also actually pretty good at it. I wanted to quit 3 years ago but my mom and dad wouldn’t let me. I agreed to play for one more year but I kept… Continue Reading
What I Want My Children to Know about Being White in America
I am pleased to offer this guest post from Annie Reneau at Motherhood and More. This is Annie’s second post on Mommy Means It about race. You can read her first piece about growing up in a white family that did not tolerate racism here. My husband and I recently took our kids to see… Continue Reading
Parenting Heathens is Super Hard
Parenting heathens is super hard. A couple, the Barbours of Pennsylvania*, were so overwhelmed by it that they abused their children, but only the ones they’d adopted from Ethiopia. They beat and starved them, causing seizures from head trauma in one and malnutrition in the other. Well, their trial has officially ended. Did you guess that… Continue Reading
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