What My Daughter Wrote That Changed My Life

March 12, 2013 Subscribe · Forward What My Daughter Wrote That Changed My Life Is it possible to add anything to the discussion around work and motherhood without being bullied by other moms? My guess is no, but I'd like to share my story anyway. I love being a working mom, but I didn't always. For most of my kids' lives I'd been doubting my parenting choices, hoping they were empowering my kids, while secretly fearing I was causing them harm. I felt judged by other moms all the time. I was the single one with the startup, the mother who was always working... and that didn't seem to jive with other parents' expectations. Continue reading... 17 Reasons My Toddler Won't Nap Today -- Or Any Day What I Focus On As The Mother Of A Child With Autism Where I Finally Realized Modesty Is Not An Option As A Mom Woman Gives Birth At 38,000 Feet The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Author Of 'Notes from a Dragon Mom' On Her Son Ronan, Her Memoir And Grief WATCH: Dad Hacks 'Donkey Kong' So His Daughter Can Save Mario As Pauline The Costs Of Raising A Child At Every Age The Disturbing Discovery I Made In An Old Photo Of Myself WATCH: Dad Hacks 'Donkey Kong' So His Daughter Can Save Mario As Pauline The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week LISA BELKIN The Best Parenting Advice I Ever Received The best advice I ever received as a mother was "ask for help." It was given to me by one of the few of my friends who'd started this parenting thing before I had, and who'd been determined, she finally confessed, to make it look easy. Continue reading... EMILY RAPP Ronan's Diagnosis On January 10, 2011, my husband, Rick, and I received the worst possible news: that our son, Ronan, then nine months old, had Tay-Sachs disease, a rare, progressive and always fatal condition with no treatment and no cure. Continue reading... SORAYA CHEMALY Great Hacker Dads Make Female Video Game Heroes Most video games, like movies and other popular media, either entirely ignore female protagonists or marginalize, sexualize and objectify them. Boys and girls learn that as they grow older, females are invisible, distressed or simply accessories. Continue reading... JANE BUCKINGHAM Four Seconds of Fame Here's the story of how over two weeks, a "nobody" went from 10 to 100 to 10,000 followers on Instagram, having two fan pages, and a social media stalker. And I'm not proud to admit that the story is about my nine-year-old daughter. Continue reading... DANYA BRAUNSTEIN Internet Use Disorder: What Do Parents Need to Know? Regardless of whether it's called an addiction, whether it's focused on the Internet or any other digital object, if your child displays a number of the signs below, it would be advisable to make some changes within your family. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.