Results for: queer parenting
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Tips for Navigating Back-to-School Time for LGBTQ+ Parents
Establishing a good relationship with your child’s school when you’re a queer parent is incredibly important.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: I Don’t Want To Be a Parenting Influencer
There are plenty of ways to be visible as queer parents without subjecting ourselves to the hate and vitriol of social media.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: There’s No Manual for Navigating Co-Parenting
I know I write about our experience as a two mom family, but here’s the thing: My son has a dad. And he has been sleeping on my couch on and off for the last four months.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: How Do You Handle School Stuff While Co-Parenting?
I am a big advocate of parent-teacher conferences, and I always make it a priority to go.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: This Is Not Your Typical Mommy Blog
When you’re a queer parent writing for a largely hetero audience, it feels like you’re pleading your case to exist.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: How Do You Create Queer Community for Your Family?
I grew up around my mom’s queer friends, and I wanted my son to have that, too.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: When You’re the Only Lesbian Mom on the Playground
There’s a certain amount of risk calculation you have to do when you’re the only queer mom in a group of parents.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: How Do We Engage With Queer Mom Influencer Culture?
One of my biggest issues with mom-fluencer culture in general is that there is a lack of ability to create meaningful conversations around the issues that plague motherhood.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Happy New Year!
Giving up control is hard for me as a mom who was a single parent for so many years.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: We Must Stand Up For Queer Kids
As a parent, I can’t imagine the pain Nex’s family is going through right now.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: I Have Mixed Feelings About Homework
As a parent who is making a concentrated effort to teach my child boundaries when it comes to helping manage burnout, homework doesn’t really fit in with that.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: What’s Up with TV for Kids?
I don’t want lesbian polar bears; I want two moms who look like the moms I see on the playground.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Why Do I Constantly Have To Explain Our Family Dynamic?
We live in a time when the “traditional” nuclear family isn’t necessarily the default family structure anymore. But beyond that, not all queer families are made the same way either.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Blending Our Family
Even though I often refer to him as my son, my wife is just as much of a parent to him as I am, and he considers her his mom.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Why I Never Put Anyone in My Family “First”
To me, the concept of anyone being “first” in a family feels weird. We all have a hierarchy of needs, right?
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Why Is It So Hard for Us To Take Time for Ourselves?
There have been many times when I’ve said that I’m going to make a stronger effort to take time for myself and that lasts for a couple weeks before I fall right back into the routine of ignoring my needs.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: How I’m Approaching the “Sex Talk”
“Mom, why do people have s-e-x?” my son asks, stopping me dead in my tracks.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Christmas With a Tween
My mother warned me that it goes by fast, but f*ck. The constant back and forth of being the mom of a tween is breaking my heart.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Why Is Bedtime Such a Battle?
If you’re a parent, you know how hard it is to get a kid to go to sleep when they don’t want to. I truly wish I could tell you it gets easier, but I don’t like to lie.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Halloween Is Just Another Reminder My Kid Is Growing Up
As a parent, Halloween is always such a mess of a holiday.