Finding Love Later in Life
By Guest Blogger JamillahNeeairah Nasir Recently, I was at brunch with The Committee when the topic of love and relationships came up. Usually, I take this moment to use the ladies' room, check my email, or get another bagel and top off my coffee. I usually don’t have...
When Your Child is Sexually Assaulted
By Anonymous I think we’ll all agree that, if your phone rings or buzzes after a certain hour, it’s 99% a guarantee that it’s not going to be a pleasant conversation - especially if you have kids who drive. If you’re lucky, it will be their number coming across your...
The New Cone Health Women’s & Children’s Center Opens
By Guest Blogger Juanyetta Beasley, DHA, RN-CNML Nursing Director, Neonatal ICU The Cone Health Women’s & Children’s Center at Moses Cone Hospital opens Sunday, Feb. 23, at 5:30 a.m. Hospitals construct new buildings all the time, but Cone Health has very...
Learning to Parent Alone
By Guest Blogger Rob Ainbinder When my wife passed away on August 22, 2019, from Glioblastoma multiforme (a fancy name for brain cancer), my life and my daughter’s were changed forever. We were no longer an intact, two-parent family with one child. I was, with some...
Dear Tailgating Driver
By Guest Blogger Lisa Witherspoon Dear Tailgating Driver, Hi! I know you probably have somewhere really important to be. Maybe you have an appointment. Maybe you are on the way to pick up your children or your elderly grandmother. Maybe your day hasn’t gone quite as...
When Past Trauma Impacts Your Current Parenting
By Guest Blogger Christine Murray, PhD, LPC, LMFT, Director of the Healthy Relationships Initiative Domestic violence. Child abuse. Natural disasters. As we’ve become more aware of the impacts of these and other traumatic experiences on people throughout their lives,...
When To-Do Lists Come Undone
By Guest Blogger Alyssa Tabacca, author of Driving the Big Van Every once in a while I am on top of things around the house. Solving problems, fixing broken glass. For example, the frame around our back door has been broken for almost a year. A determined person could...
Date Night Ideas
Updated by Anna Keller & Rachel Hoeing This directory is sponsored by Tap That Axe Throwing, which is bringing you the hottest trend in indoor sports and giving you a fun and relaxing atmosphere to hang out and relieve some stress. They offer the opportunity to do...
The Slightly Lopsided Seesaw
By Guest Blogger Hillary Zaken Dear working parent, I see you. I see you juggling work and childcare and self-care and your home and your chores and your relationship and your community involvement and your children’s extra-curricular activities, striving for that...
Teach A Kid to Make Spaghetti … An Unexpected Foster Care Journey
By Guest Blogger Amy Hughes Nothing is easy about our foster care system. Whether you’re a foster parent, child, caseworker, or birth parent it is undoubtedly a hard journey for everyone involved. For foster parents there is tons of red tape to navigate, constant...
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