Parenting babies, toddlers, tweens, teens and beyond.

A Gringa Mom Raising Two Little Latinas

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“Your girls look just like you!” I hear this constantly. And they do look like me, especially my eldest with her blond hair, fair skin and blue eyes. No one really knows by looking at them that half of their genes are Mexican/Peruvian/Spanish.…
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The Twin Sibling My Daughter Never Had

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When I became pregnant through fertility treatment, I had something in common with about 30 percent of other women who undergo IVF or IVF with donor eggs and receive two or more 5-day blastocysts in utero. I was pregnant with twins. I suspected…
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Mamiverse Talks with Pamela Druckerman Author of ‘Bringing Up Bébé’

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When American journalist Pamela Druckerman moved to Paris with her husband and had a baby, she began to realize that French children were very different from American children. They behaved politely in restaurants, ate anything their parents…
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Are We Overcommitting Our Kids?

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It is 7:15pm and Angelo, age 10, is sitting at the dinner table. He is not eating dinner, though; he is still doing his homework. Angelo wakes up at 6 am, eats breakfast, gets ready for school, finishes his homework from the day before, and…
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Prom & Graduation Parties: How Much Freedom Should You Allow?

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It’s an exciting time, a milestone that marks a transition into adulthood. A cap and gown, a tuxedo or prom dress, and a night of celebration are par for the course. Yet as much as you want your teen to enjoy a memorable night out, any mami…
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Facing the Unthinkable: National Missing Children's Day

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Adam Walsh. That was the name of the boy who woke me up to the reality of children being abducted and killed. Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida on July 27, 1981. He was just six years old. Two years before Adam…
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Teen Pregnancy: What To Do?

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According to statistics, almost one million teenage girls become mothers every year. And DoSomething.org reports that in 2008, “the teen pregnancy rate among African-American and Hispanic teen girls, age 15 to 19, was over two and a half…
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10 Tips to Help Kids Cope with Disaster

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We can’t shield our children from every disaster that gets reported on the news. Tragedies like 9/11, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, and the recent deadly tornado in Oklahoma are all too frequent, and our children will hear about them—and…
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How a Video Monitor Can Help Loving Fussy Babies

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I am home all day with my lovely little girls who are both under two years old. Raising two under two has its perks—we’re getting all the diapering and sleepless nights out of the way all at once, but it has significant challenges that…