Breastfeeding is tough. Even if you’re lucky and don’t buy into the many, many Booby Traps in your way, from formula advertising to misleading doctor advice, you still face another challenge, possibly the toughest one: Your fellow breastfeeding mothers. If you’re familiar with us here at Daily Momtra at all, you know breastfeeding is a [...]
Tags: breastfeeding, parenting, parenting choices, support
Technology is one of my favorite things in life. Seriously. Between the internet, my cable networks, my ereader, and so on, I’m in heaven. When we’re not broke, my husband and I enjoy keeping up with current technology too. But it doesn’t always work out quite right. I mean, how many times have you called [...]
Tags: parenting
Ahhh, nap time. Glorious, sacred nap time. That one time of day when moms all around get to sit down (or do a mad clean up), have their cup of tea (or fold laundry), and relax (or work crazy hard). Every mom plans things that need to get done, but will wait for nap time, [...]
Tags: kids, naps, preschooler, toddler
Maybe this will sound like a complete whiny rant but you know what, screw it. This shizz is bothering me so get ready for me to GO. OFF! Rrrrrrrrrrrroar! Okay, I’m back to speaking sweetly now, no one needs a migraine right now. But I just about got one when I wrote a post about [...]
I wrote this several weeks ago, and this week as my son Brody is turning 5, I’d like to share it with everyone. I wish I could have penned this letter to myself 5 years ago! There is a question that I seem to get asked more than almost any other, that being “My child [...]
Tags: autism, special needs
We never stop learning. Never. Even a 99-year-old who has seen it all and done it all can still learn. Not just textbook learning stuff — life stuff. Real life crazy daisy big time importante stuffs. For reals. Some of the most beautiful kind of learning is about making mistakes, accepting that mistake, and learning [...]
Who reads it? A LOT of moms, apparently. And to be completely honest with you, that scares me. Before you point out the obvious here (“YOU’RE reading it!), the entire reasoning behind my reading of this magazine begins with guilt. My grandpa, who has since passed away, felt it necessary for me to have a [...]
Tags: mainstream magazines suck, parenting magazine, stupid crap, vaccines