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 [...]
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This is the part where we gather around the proverbial parenting/mothering ‘campfire’ hug each other, and sing Kumbaya. Oh, and we hug, and cry, and tell each other we are perfect. And while we are dreaming lets pretend that through our awesomeness of just being a parent that we have cured poverty, world hunger, and [...]
Tags: junk food, Mommy Wars, mothering, parenting, parenting choices
If you have a toddler or preschooler and are pregnant or trying to be, this book is an absolute-must! In Mommy Breastfeeds My Baby Brother by Mark Repkin, brand-new big sister Jenna has a lot of questions about her new baby brother, like “Why can’t he use a sippy cup?” and frustration over how much [...]
Tags: breastfeeding, dealing with jealous, giveaway, mothering, new baby, nursing, parenting, siblings, tandum nursing
Yesterday, I slapped my 16-month-old daughter in the face and yelled at her. A few years ago, I slapped my son in the face, and yelled at him. Was it for disciplinary reasons? No, of course not. I don’t practice that type of disciplinary action. It was merely because I can’t control myself. If you’re [...]
Tags: behavioral problems, corporal punishment, discipline, older children, parenting, parenting choices, punishment, school-aged children, spanking
Every day, we make little decisions. Coffee or tea with breakfast? Walk or bike to work? Pants or a skirt? These are decisions that don’t really make a difference in the way we live our lives. It’s not going to change the world if you have tea instead of coffee, whether you walk or bike. [...]
I am incredibly happy to bring to you guys a guest post from Modern Alternative Mama‘s own Kate! We’ll have our own guest post on her blog soon, so go follow her blog so you don’t miss anything from us as well. ___________________________________________ Now, I say that because I am a mom who is both [...]
Tags: ap, attachment parenting, Biblical parenting, Christian, Christianity, gentle parenting, parenting, parenting choices