"There is no way to be a perfect mother, but there are a million ways to be a great one."
Last week, two of my children went back to face-to-face learning in school after almost a full year of at-home learning, an experience that tested my patience as a parent and my skills as a teacher. What did I learn? I am a better parent than I am a teacher, and I have a much greater appreciation for the importance of public schools and the roles teachers play in our children’s lives.
I became a mother when I was 34 years old. I had been married for 11 years and at my current job for nearly five. I had established routines, rhythms to the week, and seasonal activities. Needless to say, that all changed when I had my son. In addition to my full-time job, I added on a 24/7 responsibility. How was I going to make this work?
As any parent will tell you, child meltdowns happen. But they are a developmental milestone as important as speech and walking, so understanding why they happen and how to handle them can go a long way.
As a mom of four, much of my day is spent sorting through school papers and art projects. I hate to just toss the kids' art projects to the side, so I recently spent some time looking for cute and creative ways to display these. Here are a few of my top picks, with the key focus on being able to easily swap out last week’s piece for this week’s.
The first year of motherhood is often filled with long days, sleepless nights and hormonal adjustments. But there can be other minor, and often very frustrating, physical struggles that occur with little notice. But what I learned in the course of a year was to be gentle with myself and appreciate my body in new ways.
Many people have asked me this since our launch a few months ago. This isn’t my first go-around starting and running a small business. I started a children’s boutique in Boston years ago. But when I developed the concept for Bicycle Pie, I’ll admit, it was self-serving.
You know you're a mom when it's December and you're scraping the frost off your car windshield with a Lego. Welcome to motherhood! Here are 10 of our favorite hysterical quotes from Instagram accounts we love to follow that remind us we're not alone in this.
This time of year, I (along with everyone else) try to set new goals. But in the interest of full disclosure, they rarely last more than a few weeks. Maybe it’s because as my four little ones grow, our house seems to get smaller and smaller, but this year I’m determined to declutter and better organize the kids’ things. I’ve been reading tips and tricks on the topic and ultimately decided on five tasks that seem realistic and doable to help bring order and tidiness back to my home in the New Year.
