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The Art of Family: Clean vs Create

theartoffamily:

Every night, after I’ve put Chloe to bed, the mental battle begins.

I’m exhausted. That’s a given.

All my Heart wants to do is create.

All my Head wants to do is clean.

All my Body wants to do is pass out, day clothes & make-up on, contacts in, teeth un-brushed.

Typically, the Head wins until…

Public Health initiative establishes on-campus lactation stations

‎3rd yr. law student Gill Egan, mom of two, wears a cover to avoid exposure when nursing in public. She said that she is regularly approached and asked to move or stop when n.i.p. 

http://bit.ly/phealth

Knocked Up and Knocked Down - Why America's widening fertility class divide is a problem.

With growing poverty rates and political attacks on already inadequate family-planning funding threatening to drive the number of unintended pregnancies among poor women even higher, and little effort being made to address the pressures driving other women away from having kids, it’s easy to imagine how these forces could push professionals and poor women further apart. Still, in their own ways, both are struggling with the same problem: an untenable “choice” between children and financial solvency.

Parenting 104: Week 30: Family Dinner

My questions are two-fold: What well-balanced meals can provide essential nutrients and be quickly served? How can I protect dinnertime—the end-of-the-day coming together time we all enjoy—from the mad dash such evenings seem to entail?

http://bit.ly/famdindin

thedaddycomplex:

The boys got all artsy this weekend.

By the way, we didn’t style Wyatt’s hair in that one shot. He leaned against his painting and got red paint all over his hair, so we rinsed it and it ended up looking like a badass coif.

Preparing Children for Natural Disasters

by: Mary Jessica Hammes

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The United States is currently experiencing a record number of tornadoes, with 875 in the month of April alone.

I spent the night of April 27 listening to the tornado sirens wail outside, watching my 4-year-old son and husband sleep peacefully on the twin-sized mattress we had hauled, last-minute, into the hallway. I curled up into an uncomfortable ball and checked Facebook, reading all sorts of status updates from friends camped out in basements, closets, and bathtubs…

It never occurred to me do any of that. Even though we knew the storm was coming, we did nothing to prepare.

In the event climate change means more extreme weather patterns, I want to know how to keep my family safe. I also want to be prepared without alarming my child, who, like many children, can be overly sensitive or anxious.

See what happened next and learn ways you can help to prepare your family: http://bit.ly/naturaldisaster