Gratitude is the attitude, and with that in mind, staging-blacklove.kinsta.cloud’s editorial contributors reflects and shares what they are grateful for. In this edition, parenting editor Jennifer Henry reflects on her gratitude for the humbling experience of parenthood.
She didn’t see a problem with her son playing in her high heels. Her husband, on the other hand, felt differently.
With their first child, they rushed through an infancy ruled by development charts and worry. So when baby number two came along, they knew they wanted to do something different.
A mother and wife shares lessons in love, communication, and parenting that she learned from nine years of marriage.
For as long as I could remember, pregnancy was a part of my dreams, goals, and marriage. Then, one day, it hit me, my childbearing years were in the rearview mirror. But after a few days of feeling like the closing of this chapter was something to lament, I slapped myself into a new fantasy: My body was mine again. Aw SH*T!
When it comes to kids, what’s theirs is theirs and what’s mine is theirs. But what happens when the kid breaks one of mommy’s favorite luxury “toys” one too many times? Every mommy has her breaking point, and I just reached mine.
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