Ages + Stages

Mom guilt. You wonder if you're doing the right thing, especially when it comes to growing your family. If I have another baby, will I be replacing my other children? Will they feel like I don't love them anymore?...

Extended Breastfeeding. It's a term that makes a lot of people in the American culture cringe. Anything past one year? YUCK! Before I even had my first child, I was questioned by friends and friendly coworkers alike that were curious...

My breastfeeding experience with all three of my children reminds me of fine dining: awkward at first, but extremely rewarding.

This age, four years old, is the exact place I thought I would never see. For so long, I couldn’t see past the age of two, and most days, I was so deep into the thick of the weeds I...

I am a mom to twin girls and one baby boy. As I reflect on the differences between having twin infants as opposed to a single infant, I can't help but appreciate how much easier having one baby turns...

When I was younger and someone mentioned that a child was "gifted" or "high achieving," I had this vision in my mind of the perfect, angelic student. I had this assumption that the high achiever was a model student...

Throughout my years as a speech-language pathologist working in a large public school system, I observed dozens of daycares around the Omaha metro. Every daycare was different, yet it was the same: the biggest area of frustration for daycare...

I have an almost 4-year-old and an almost 1-year-old, so I’m currently going to be in toddler-activity mode for quite some time. We try to vary the activities to keep things exciting, but here are 3 of my favorite...

We are raging hormones in this house. A teen boy going through puberty and a preteen girl going through changes of her own. It’s a hot mess in our house most days. Emotions swing like a pendulum. All. The. Time. Whether...

If you no longer have those squishy little babies running up to jump on your lap at night, you might think that your kids have grown out of bedtime reading. Maybe, once those cute picture books were shelved for...