Kids, here are 11 signs that you’re a second child.

To give away a blanket, a knit cap, or skirt, is to give away precious stories, hopes and desires from that season with my kids.

To give away a blanket, a knit cap, or skirt, is to give away precious stories, hopes and desires from that season with my kids.

My advice here is the same as pediatricians’: Start reading to your baby right away. They’ll tell you it will promote future literacy. That might be true, but I’ll tell you that it will also promote future sanity, which is probably a much more immediate concern if you’re parenting an infant.

If you are a mom then chances are you have experienced sleep-deprivation.

In Korean culture, the 100th day after a child’s birth is cause for celebration because both mom and baby have survived this fragile period.

Naturally, as motherly instinct, I sometimes find myself clinging to any last bits of ‘baby’ I can—those chubby, chipmunk cheeks; our bedtime snuggles.

I’m going to be his mommy for the rest of my life. Not every day is going to be on “the schedule”, and the routine is just not always going to work.