What I learned from 37 Years of Mistakes: 9 Ideas for Toddler Parents Mother Nature is no dummy; she makes babies cute-n-cuddly for a reason—so you won’t mind slaving to someone else’s whim every moment of your life for the next twenty years. From the time your baby comes home until he or she goes […]

What I Did Wrong Before Becoming a Parent—and You Can Too! The biggest mistake I made is the one everyone lauds me for: unplanned parenting.* I thought it would be easy. I thought I could figure it out. I thought I would have help. Wait, I take all that back. I didn’t think. Not actively. […]

Part I: Never Take Parenting Advice from an Expert Who Has Not Bailed a Child Out of Jail Why? Because without hardship, anything they tell you is just theory. Thirty-seven years ago, I was adopted by a precocious three-year-old. She saved my life. I wrote about it in a blog post (How Adopting a 3-yr-old […]