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How to Help Kids Open Up About Anything

Tips for creating safe spaces and developing emotional intelligence in your children.

Shanicia Boswell

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A Child Raised by Many Mothers: What We Can Learn about Parenthood from an Indigenous Group in Brazil

The Kraho people believe a child should have more than one mother. It’s so ingrained in the culture that the Kraho children use the word “inxe” for both their biological mother and their mother’s sisters or the women their mother considers as sisters, even if they’re not related by blood.

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This Mom’s Viral Video Shows the Absurdity of Calling the Basic Needs of Moms ‘Self-Care’

PSA: Pooping with the door closed is not relaxing “me time”—it’s the bare minimum.

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US Mothers Don’t Just Need New Policies—They Need a Cultural Shift

If we want to lift the pressure on American mothers we should look at how black women have been balancing motherhood and work for more than a century

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Why Is Self-Care Especially Important for Foster Parents?

For parents, children can take up every waking thought and every ounce of energy outside of work. This is especially true for foster parents.

KVC West Virginia Staff

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What It’s Like to Be a Foster Mom on Mother’s Day

The author of this essay has cared for 16 kids in the last three years and yet, many people do not recognize her as a “real” mom.

Manda Carpenter

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Lessons for White Parents Raising Black Children

Raising children to thrive in a society that judges them—sometimes harshly and, in extreme cases, fatally—because of skin color is hard regardless of your ethnicity.

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We Need to Normalize Black Moms Breastfeeding

Looking into the history of breastfeeding in the Black community helped me to understand a deep generational curse.

Shanicia Boswell

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Is the Western Way of Raising Kids Weird?

From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them.

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How to Talk About Postpartum Depression

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mental health condition that affects as many as 1 in 7 moms. But despite how prevalent it is, there’s still a lot of stigma surrounding it. Moms may not want to share that they are struggling due to the guilt, shame, or fear that they are somehow a “bad” mom.

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