parents
The boundless love a parent has for their child is matched only by their capacity to embarrass them.
A Letter to My 'Dad'
Dear Dad, I would like to thank you. Thank you for coming into my mom's life and making her so very happy. Thank you for staying despite how much I tested you. Thank you for being there for every happy and wonderful moment in my life. Thank you for being there when I have hit rock bottom and thought I couldn't continue. Thank you for believing in me, even when I didn't believe in myself. Thank you for telling me when I have screwed up. Thank you for listening when I have needed a friend. Thank you for supporting me. Thank you for being an amazing Pap Pap to Arianna and Alex. And most of all, thank you for loving us as though we are yours.
By Bekah Milstead8 years ago in Families
Because We Love You
When I was younger, I learned to be ashamed of everything. I was always “too nervous”, “too quiet”, too ME. At the time I never fully understood why I couldn’t sit still no matter how hard I willed myself to. I couldn’t concentrate in class, and that made me a bad child, because I would finish my workbooks before everyone else and doodle in my binder.
By Jesse Lee-Young8 years ago in Families
A New Life Was Created and Another Reborn
I had so much anger towards everyone and what I had been through. I felt like nobody wanted to hear my story. I never told anyone what he was doing to me. I let a monster get away with so many things. I always wondered, maybe I was the real monster. A monster of my feelings and my thoughts, my actions and my words. I was in self-destruct mode and I never thought I would get out of it. I was the master of my fate and I thought that he was all I would ever be worth. It took two years for me to realize my self worth was not all I thought it was worth. I deserved love and happiness, a chance to live my life free from control. I deserved all of this, but would it ever happen. I knew I had to change something and I was the only one that could make the change.
By Ashlee Grant8 years ago in Families
Love at First Sight
Some believe in soulmates, some don't. Nobody really knows for sure if soulmates exist, but I'd like to think that they do. In my opinion, though, they're rare. Maybe there isn't somebody out there for everybody, but it's also a pleasant feeling knowing there very well COULD be somebody out there meant for you. Plenty of people spend their lives trying to find their "soulmate." Everybody they get feelings for or date or love or even marry, they wonder, "IS this person my soulmate?" My very thought, is this: if you have to wonder, then they aren't your soulmate. Soulmates aren't just the person who gives you butterflies or puts a smile on your face. They're not just the person who inspires you to get out of bed every morning. With soulmates, it's powerful. The bond is so strong that nothing, not even death, could break it. When somebody is your soulmate, you just know and they know, too.
By Katie Schmidt8 years ago in Families
Too Tired to Pretend
I am a stay-at-home mom of two, if you include my husband, three kids. Let me start off by saying that we have a very traditional household. My husband goes to work for 10-12 hours a day. He has a very hard, dangerous, high stress job, and by the time he gets home, he's tired, stressed, and ready to relax. I, myself, never had a good paying job. We decided long ago that if and when we had kids, that I would stay home with them because my working wouldn't be worth the money we'd have to pay for childcare. I was happy with this because I wasn't ever one to "want" to work anyway. His job pays enough that we can live comfortably, so what's the point? I'd rather spend the time raising our children than having someone else do it anyway.
By K.B. Andrews8 years ago in Families
Get Organized!
If you had told me a few years ago that I would become a mother at the age of 18, I probably would have laughed at you. In fact, even now I sometimes find my current life situation hard to believe. My life now consists of diapers (36 a day to be exact), nine or ten bottles, 12 sippy cups, and lots of naps. I have a two-year-old son, a one-year-old son, and a daughter who is a month old as I am writing this. Life can get pretty crazy in my house, I'm a stay at home mom whose main role in life is "mom." It can be easy to let yourself become overwhelmed if you have one kid, let alone three, so here's how this momma survives.
By Jessica Feral8 years ago in Families
Shoutout to the Single Dads. Top Story - November 2017.
Single Mum Survival Special: A Shoutout to the Single Dads Let's face it. Dads have got a bad rep. Let's be honest about it too, some women would have been better off going to Sweden and getting themselves a nice sperm donor (good genes without the hassle). Countless baby daddies are jumping from woman to woman like grasshoppers, siring children they don't give a second thought to once they've left. Maybe one day they will grow fat and bald, and the inadequacy of impotency may find them sitting in their armchairs thinking "I wonder how my son is doing?" They may make a somewhat feeble attempt to communicate with their various progeny out of guilt, to find themselves talking with a fully grown man or woman that doesn't want to know them. Stepfathers are walking stepdaughters down the isle in the absence of their biological parent, sons are growing up without a father figure and a single mother trying to make ends meet. It's easy to see why vitriolic abuse is hurled at these men. Yet the absentee father overshadows a very different kind of man. The single dad; he is the man who steps up, takes on the burden of playing both roles, and effectively too. He is the silent worker bee, tying up his daughter's hair before school.
By Eve Tawfick8 years ago in Families
