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What if YOUR Kid is the Bully???
By: Tanya Dodd-Hise “Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.” ― Karen Mueller Coombs, Bully at Ambush Corner This is hard to talk about. It is embarrassing, humiliating, ...
Ten Places NOT to Visit Before You Die
By: Ann Brown Who thought of that stupid Facebook thing, anyway? You know, that app where everyone lists all the places they've been and shares their bucket list and seizes the day and puts pins on the map and shit? What a load. 100 PLACES TO VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE. Fuck that ...
Scary Movie
By: Holly Vanderhaar It's true: I took my 3rd-grade daughters to see The Hunger Games yesterday (I'd already seen it twice). I had read all three books about a year ago, and was eagerly looking forward to the movie. It wasn’t really my plan to take the kids until recently. I ...
The Art of the Mom-Versation
By: Allison Norris With such little time for regular social interaction, "mom talk" is taking over my social life. There are different parts of this phenomenon: Comparing notes on little ones; Repeating the same story over and over; One upping; Speaking in third person; Common conversation starters; If you are a mom, or you know one and hang ...
Surrogate Sex
By: Kelly Rummelhart . . . or, for me, a lack there of The last two weeks we've talked about being a single surrogate and I received a great question about having sex as a surrogate, single or otherwise. Now, I know different agencies have different guidelines, as do the various doctors surrogates ...
Being a Single Surrogate
By: Kelly Rummelhart Two more surrogates share their answers to questions about their experiences as single, gestational surrogates. Were you single when you applied to be a surrogate? If not, at what point in the process did you become single? Are you single (as in alone) or are you single with a ...
Same Sex Parent
My Daughter
By: Shannon Ralph She is always hungry. Always. She is never tired. Or so she says....
Happy Birthday — An Oxymoron
By: John Jericiau It’s been twenty-four hours and my ears are still ringing. I...
We’re Getting Married
By: Brandy Black The wondrous age of four in which imagination runs wild and the...
Smells Like Giorgio
By: Selina Boquet I had tried to talk him out of it. As soon as I saw my...
Identity Crisis of a Pre-Mother
By: Lex Jacobson I find out tomorrow if I’m pregnant. I don’t know how...
International Family Equality Day
By: Joey Uva Enoch This past Sunday, May 6, 2012, LGBTQ families around the world...
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Mother’s Day
By: Kelly Rummelhart Here I am. My first Mother’s Day as a single mom. So...
Are We Actually Capable?
By: Kerrie Olejarz During our pregnancy we had people tell us that they would “help”...
Interview with Lisa Regula Meyer
Interview with Lisa Regula Meyer for The Next Family TNF: How has it been...
Inside Joke
By: Kelly Rummelhart One of the things that is so awesome about knowing other surrogates...
Sharing a Little Wisdom
By: Kerrie Olejarz After having been home for a while we started to be pleasantly...
Of Hope and Humanity, Part OneBy: Lisa Regula Meyer Nearly four weeks after the birth of my second surrogate child,...
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A Mother’s Day Story About Hemorrhoids
By: Ann Brown The thing about being pregnant for the first time is that as far as you know, it’s all about labor. The fact that an actual baby arrives at the end of it, and then you have to raise it forever, well, that part is just so unimaginable that it doesn’t exist. Labor. Contractions. Breathing. Hee hee hoo. Hoo hoo hee. Find your... [Read more of this review]
Another Day for Mom
By: Tanya Ward Goodman I woke up on Mother’s Day to find a note on my pillow. It read “Have fun!” and told me to go to my son’s room to find the next clue. I followed directions and found another note that advised “the love is ithin you. Find the missing letter.” I headed to my daughter’s room for the final clue. As soon as I popped my... [Read more of this review]
Ten Places NOT to Visit Before You Die
By: Ann Brown Who thought of that stupid Facebook thing, anyway? You know, that app where everyone lists all the places they’ve been and shares their bucket list and seizes the day and puts pins on the map and shit? What a load. 100 PLACES TO VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE. Fuck that shit. No one needs to go anywhere. Everything you need is here. Plus,... [Read more of this review]
Adventure Everywhere
By: Tanya Ward Goodman Today, wearing a hooded sweatshirt, old jeans, and a headlamp, I scaled a cement wall, shimmied under a heating duct, and crawled across rubble. Up until the very moment I did this thing, the thought of doing it made my heart beat a little faster, but once I was under my house, making my way toward the damp spot waaaaay under... [Read more of this review]
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