Results for: Feel good
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Where Hope and Grief Can Co-Exist
How do we both honor our child’s memory and prepare to open our hearts again to a new child?
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I Thought Getting Pregnant Was Hard; Then I Had a Toddler
“It’s funny. We have legal documents declaring our marriage valid in two different states. We’ve been together and in love for years. But it was the birth of our daughter this daredevil, this personality, that really made our home feel like family.”
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Missing Someone Gone While Raising Someone New
They call a child born after a loss a rainbow baby. The storm left a devastating aftermath, but this rainbow is bringing us daily joy.
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Adventures in (Lesbian) Baby-Making
“Whose sperm is this?” she asked me once. Maybe it was the first time. “It’s mine,” I said. I didn’t know what else to say. I had paid for it. No one else was coming to get it.
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Shake, Don’t Wipe!
“Sometimes, when you’re in the business of parenting, you have to phone a friend for a bit of perspective and advice. Sometimes, you have to phone more than one.”
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Defining For My Own “Right” Way To Be A Mom
“As a lesbian mom, it was especially hard to fight the urge to do the “right” thing, however slippery a concept that was, because I was representing a community, not just myself, I thought.”
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How My Motherhood Made My Mother Accept My Lesbianism
She didn’t say “I have suspected this for years and I still love you.” It went more like a Scared Straight kind of thing but instead of scaring me about drugs and a life of crime, she wanted to scare me straight, straight. “Just Say No to Lesbianism” straight.
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“Is She Gay? Should I Ask Her?”: Advice To Moms Who Have Queer Daughters
A mom turned to an internet message board to ask how she should handle the fact that her daughter is a lesbian and people actually responded and gave great advice. Then we wanted to give some advice, too.
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How To Live With Kids: Four Zines You’ll All Like, Probably
Zines for gender-neutral kids, unschooling kids, kids and their parents, and totally Wild Children. BAM.
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19 Terribly Interesting Tips On Raising A Trans Kid (From A Trans Kid)
“There is no Parenting Trans Kids 101 textbook. All there is is showing up to class.”
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How to Live With, Be Around and Give Gifts to Kids: Holiday Season Special
You may soon find yourself in charge of or surrounded by one or more children. They may even be expecting gifts. This will help.
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How to Live With Kids: Chores and Responsibilities
The joys of child labor and indentured servitude.
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Canadian Parents Raise Gender-Neutral Baby by Not Revealing Its Sex
What happens when a family decides to kick “It’s a boy!”/”It’s a girl!” to the curb.
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In Which This is Not a Mommy Blog and I Need Gluten-Free Advice
“Despite strong suggestions / all-out requests, I’ve successfully avoided writing about parenting or my children for two years! And now that’s over.”
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What It Feels Like For A Lesbian Household: Recent Studies On Gay Families
Lesbian families are a thing – but to the scientific community, they still sometimes seem like an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in Melissa Etheridge. Here are some of the hard facts.
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Things Laneia’s 5-Year-Old Son Said
“If you loved me then you should’ve put some cheese on it.”
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Autostraddle Roundtable: Our Fantasy Gay Mommies
Who do you want to be your two Mommies? The Autostraddle Roundtable tackles this pressing topic, inspired by the Parentdish Survey where Portia & Ellen came out on top.