by Jane Samuel
Method Happy Holiday by Method
Most kids have loveys. Tired-looking things that they have loved into threadbare parcels of comfort. Perhaps a beloved blanket – a gift from some ancient aunt the child doesn’t even know but who thought enough to gift the one thing every child needs. Perhaps a bear, or bunny, or boppi – whatever that is. Perhaps even a woman’s slip (as was the case with my cousin’s youngest). […]
by Peg O'Neill, M.D.
“Mom, that kid just called Joey a nigger!” Jimmy, my fair-haired eleven year-old, his face flushed with anger, stood before me on the elementary school playground, trying to process the insult that had just been hurled at his darker-skinned younger brother. “I was going to fight him, but I decided to come and tell you.” […]
by Ellie Stoneley
Mother, Me & Hope
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter” – Mark Twain
I’ve been asked so many times what it feels like to be an ‘older Mother.’ It always strikes me as a silly question, really, it’s not as if I knew what it was like to be a younger mother. I am what I am, we are where we are and I am 48 1/2 with a 12 month old daughter… I am happy, blissfully happy, if a little tired most of the time. […]
by Rachel Snyder
Even when it seems that a pile of laundry is blocking your view, hold on to your vision. See it unfolding in a way you can’t quite define. Bigger, bolder, brighter than your own imagination. Smaller, warmer, cozier. How does your vision grow? Into a tidy home with a well-tended herb garden? Into a life of service to humanity? Into a greater love than you’ve ever known? While a goal emerges from the mind, your vision takes root in your heart. It calls to you with a commanding voice, bits and pieces presenting themselves in arrangements that at first may seem unlikely. How does it feel to step into your vision? What do you smell? Taste? Hear? Stay with your vision even if it seems to grow dim. You can never turn your back on that which only you were meant to see.
by Douglas C.
You might think it unusual that I read parenting magazines; that I know women by their children’s names; and that most women who speak with me are grandmothers – around my own age! However, what you don’t know is that at age 52, I’m actually the mom (The Baby-Daddy) of the household – not what I expected to be at my age, but one that clearly enhances and supports my family unit. […]
by Valerie Gillies
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf” – Jon Kabat-Zin
In the last few weeks, the why question has come up every day. It really is a foolish question. Honestly, outside of a scientific topic there is rarely a good answer for “Why?” If I could say why a vibrant, kind, friend succumbed to multiple myeloma last week, don’t I also need to know why the shell of a nasty ancient relative remains alive in a nursing home? This is complicated, and our hearts yearn for simple answers that we can wrap in tidy packages, secure with twine, and pack away, so that we can go on with our daily tasks without interruption. […]
by Ann Sheybani
When did we women decide that everyone else should come first? Who proclaimed it our job to guarantee the pleasure of others and settle for whatever crumbs fell off their plates?
I like to call this the Chicken Back Syndrome. Preparing a chicken dinner, encouraging our husbands and children to take the best pieces—the breast, thighs and legs—and insisting that we actually like the chicken back best. And somehow, without question, everyone believes we’re just loopy enough to crave bone and gristle. After awhile, we even convince ourselves that those tiny scraps of meat buried between the ribs are worth the effort. […]
by Jane Samuel
Done: This mother of babies has retired.
The email surprised me. Apparently the Chinese orphan we had sponsored for the last five years had been adopted. Not three days earlier I had finally shipped off a package of specially selected Christmas presents: a doll, a few Chinese picture books, a cheongsam (Chinese dress), and some craft items. […]
Dear Reader: In keeping with my promise to continue presenting trends of the future, here are 20 business/economic trends. What distinguishes Midlife Mothers from others is our passionate and fervent desire to remain current, viable and healthy as our children age. (Code for: we aim to stay around as long as possible!) If not painfully and clearly apparent is that our children’s world and their experiences will not replicate the world which we grew up in. Here are 20 business trends which will shape the country during the coming century:
Information courtesy of Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-20-2012-9?op=1
