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Teaching your kids how to ask for consent

I’m raising white males who I hope will one day get into Princeton University and Yale Law School. (Nah, fingers crossed, they’ll get into state schools.) What’s a mom to do when she’s training up the next generation of the...

Feeling like Mommy Dearest: why you need REM sleep

As a first time mom, I experienced a high level of anxiety. Then I wandered into a dark world. Suddenly, I found myself in a place of rage. Too strong a word? Perhaps. How quickly lack of sleep took its...

Why a potty mouth does you good

Whenever I drop “holy shit!” during normal conversation, my husband laughs at me. He says he’ll do the same thing if I start speaking jive or suddenly morph into a discussion on the relativity of time. It’s obviously not my...

How not to be a submissive wife

A couple years ago, a friend informed me that since I’m not a submissive wife, I’m “destined for divorce.” Huh, I can think of lots of reasons why I might get divorced – and that ain’t one of them. Like...

How to survive life with a newborn

Here’s your guide to survive all things new mom. Well, maybe not all things, but these are the most popular posts from MothersRest for prego ladies and mommas of newborns. All in one spot. First off, newborns like to poop...

To my husband on the 19th anniversary of our engagement

He read Proverbs 31 and bought me a ring. He drove home and stuffed it safely into his shoe in the back of the closet in his ghetto apartment. Because shoes are the proper deterrent within a complex where many...

The secret to date night success

Some people claim that marriage sucks after kids. There might be some truth in that. Maybe just a little, teeny, tiny bit? Because: You haven’t talked to your partner in weeks. There are chores and work and baby stuff and...

How my kid almost crushed my marriage

Tips for how to connect with your spouse after baby arrives: see a marriage counselor, go on a date and have more sex. So your bundle of joy doesn't crush your love life.

Dear early riser, please stay in bed

My oldest wakes up at 5:30am. Nope, I didn’t stutter. That’s right, 5:30-A-M! Anyone else feeling my pain? My kid has done this since he was a baby. Before he was weaned, I nursed him back to sleep for another...

How to be a Rock Star Dad

Ok, listen up, baby daddy! This advice applies to Valentine’s Day, Christmas Day, Mother’s Day, Birth Day, Anniversary Day. Instead of getting Miss Thang more stuff to dust, or flowers that will wilt or more bling to wear… Here’s what...

That time I married the same guy TWICE

Who makes good, lifelong decisions at 24? Sometimes you have to go through the journey of divorce to realize love is unconditional.

My man loves the grocery store (and it’s super sexy)

“Icing,” she said. “All you need to get is the icing.” Sounds easy, right? And no pressure. There’s just a roomful of small children waiting to decorate a gazillion cookies. Icing: the foundation for all things yum. Without it, there...

Marriage sucks after kids?

How many of us enter parenthood thinking our sweet little babe will be a major marriage stressor? But then comes sleep deprivation and new routines and a new life thrust into the mix of a, previous-to-this, partnership of just two.