Relationships, Family, Parenting
by Jessica Martin-Weber This past weekend was rough for our family and as we continue to deal with the aftermath of some trauma two of our children experienced (separate incidents and we’re not ok but we’re ok, just not at a place where we can share publicly about any of it- one was a very…
by Jessica Martin-Weber There have been a number of articles and blog posts written about what to or not to say to families with only one child or a number of children and maybe even a few to people without children (not many on this one). Yet it seems like there’s always another one. Apparently…
Dear Trump voters, I’m not writing to berate you, question your reasoning, shame you, or otherwise attack you for the choice you made in this election. I respect your right to choose whoever you thought was best suited to lead this country, or more accurately for many of us: which political party. There are a…
For a while now I have absorbed the outrage expressed on social media as people have lashed out in response to the sentencing and then reduced sentence of Brock Turner, rapist, ex-Stanford University swimmer, by Judge Aaron Persky. Unable to identify my own feelings on the matter, or maybe just wanting to avoid them, I tacitly…
Sometimes it is all just too much. Life that is. More specifically, people. This is our 6yo this past Sunday morning. Visiting what will be her new classroom for church school, this little introvert was overwhelmed by all the people and noise so we found a nook and a finger labyrinth for her to center…
The following gifs are my reaction to one with the same image that got popular this week with the caption “How It Feels Raising Girls.” We found it decidedly not funny, as it expresses that raising girls is like throwing money out the window – as if it is a waste of money to…
by Jessica Martin-Weber “WHY are there workshops on how to avoid being a victim but there aren’t workshops on how to avoid being an attacker?” She had a point. I encouraged her to lower her voice and be mindful of how others were processing in the moment but I couldn’t deny that she was right….
by Shannon DeLong ****Content Warning**** This article makes mention of domestic abuse. Today was Mother’s day, and it was hard. Despite this being the second Mother’s Day since my separation from my now ex-husband, this one seemed to leave me feeling the weight of my single-momdom much heavier. I didn’t get to sleep-in, there was no…
“I can’t do it. I can’t spank our children anymore. I just don’t know how to do it in a healthy way. I don’t know where the line is between spanking your children and beating them. I was never spanked; my parents beat the shit out of me. And they were angry when they did….
There are things that no one wants to talk about – until those things happen to them and then they turn to the anonymous internet where they hope that someone else has done the unthinkable: shared their own experience of that very same thing. But they could never talk about that themselves, could they? Everyone…
