By: Amber Leventry Two of my three kids are potty trained. I should consider myself lucky, because my first two children were relatively easy when it came to working through the stages of potty training grief. But this last diaper wearing wildcard has found new ways to kill my patience. I shouldn’t be surprised. The […]
By: Amber Leventry Now that my daughter has been five for almost two months, she is pretty convinced she knows everything. If she doesn’t know something, she knows she can ask Google for the answer. So really, she knows everything—including how to take pretty sweet photos with her 1.3 megapixel precision lens digital camera. And […]
By: Amber Leventry LGBT activist and writer, Eric Rosswood, has written the modern day version of What to Expect When You’re Expecting for same-sex parents to-be. But this book is more what to expect when you want to be expecting by way of five alternative paths to parenthood. Journey to Same-Sex Parenthood: Firsthand Advice, Tips, […]
By: Amber Leventry “Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl,” said Bloom. This is the high point of the crescendo, the sucker punch that killed insecurity and doubt, the line that is delivered from one girl to another in my favorite new children’s book. Trust me on this one: buy Bloom, […]
By: Amber Leventry There are many examples, usually told through modern day story telling written as a meme, of the trials and triumphs of being a parent. Parenting rigidity decreases while sleep deprivation increases with each child; chaos is the new normal; our kids would rather throw their food than eat it, and we are […]
By: Amber Leventry When everyone of my five member family is home, it’s loud, messy, and usually chaotic. It’s great to have such animated, strong-willed, confident kids, but it’s also exhausting. Our three kids, ages five and two and a half, love each other, show each other kindness, and have (short) stretches of time when […]
By: Amber Leventry Sometimes when my partner and oldest daughter leave for work and preschool each morning, I wish I was the one leaving the house to go to a job without twin toddlers as bosses. Staying home full-time with my boys can be really hard and lonely. For the most part, it’s not so […]
By: Amber Leventry I lay on my yoga mat during savasana, or rest pose, when a man broke the silence of the room by opening the door to the studio expecting to start his own practice for the evening. This apologetic man made the innocent mistake of entering a room ten minutes too early. The […]
By: Amber Leventry Five years ago the meaning of Valentine’s Day changed for me. It is no longer just a Hallmark holiday, filled with clichés of chocolate, love poems, and flowers. The intensity in which I feel love shifted on February 14th, 2011. On that day, before I left for work, I kissed my partner, […]
By: Amber Leventry My daughter will be five in a couple of weeks, though lately I’m convinced she will be turning 15. Door slamming, screaming, name calling, declarations of injustice and her dislike for me and her other mama have made me wonder where we went wrong as parents. What happened to our sweet baby […]
