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Midlife Crisis in a Minivan

by Karen Hug-Nagy

When I was in my twenties and thirties, the thought never crossed my mind that by the time I reached my mid-forties, I would be hauling kids around in a Honda Odyssey. While I never owned any sleek sports cars, my Ford Explorer was dedicated to weekend road trips in the country and taking the dogs for a ride. […]

Our Time Has Come

New technologies and cultural shifts have created a booming cohort of wrinkled moms and dads with newborn babies. So why do older parents make so many people uneasy? By Lisa Miller

Note the latest issue of New York Magazine featuring a…Midlife Mother! The topic? New mothers over 50. There’s been much criticism of this article, with commentators believing it is negatively skewed – reflecting time-old common societal perceptions of women and middle age – rather than promoting this as the latest chapter in the women’s movement and an inspiration for future generations of women.

For me, the issue is just about enlightening the public. At this point, I’m not interested in whether the commentary is negative or positive. This rapidly common occurrence will, of itself, find level ground. Common concensus will come over (much) time, with years of studies, statistical analyses and commentaries reflecting the various sides and aspects of new older mothering.

For now, we have the brewhaha that all this creates. Talk on…and read more about it on….http://nymag.com/news/features/mothers-over-50-2011-10/

Time to Get Moving

by Peg O'Neill

I love autumn: the cool and clean of the air, the turning of the leaves, the pumpkins, the mums, the start of the school year, with new shiny notebooks and clean backpacks and the opportunity to get up every morning and pack lunches for school…obviously, I’m kidding about this last one, but everything else is true. Autumn is also the time where a lot of mothers get their groove back with respect to exercising. Over the past few weeks, I have heard numerous moms on the playground after school or who are bringing their kids into my office for check-ups, talk about their own plans for exercise this fall. […]

Fall, in the footsteps of my mother

by Andrea Lynn

I always feel like my mother when I clean the oven. I did it last night in recognition that our days of barbecuing will be curtailed soon enough, and an oven-warmed house will soon be a lovely thing. Oven cleaning has come a long way, with the push of a button, but there is still the messy bit at the end that involves rubber gloves, and that is when I feel like my mother — in the best possible way. Productive. […]