What We Love | Empowering Compliments for Girls
“A major task of parenting is communicating your values to children. Don’t let an avoidable linguistic habit send an unintentional message that how little girls look is [...]
growing up
6 Extracurricular Activities That Help Kids Develop Social and Emotional Maturity
For most parents, raising a child is a beautiful but challenging experience. When your child is shy or introverted, one of those challenges might be encouraging them to [...]
Sweatpants & Parenting | Playing with Nature: How to Spark Creativity at a Young Age
Children are constantly learning, growing and creating. Especially young children, who are easily influenced by any and everything around them. In today’s [...]
Charm School and Learning to Stand
I’m trying to explain charm school to my daughter. Is this even still a thing? Do mothers still sign their girls up for classes in how to be delightfully alluring? We were [...]
Sweatpants & Soul | Dealer
I have been writing stories in recent months that are as painful to read as they are to write. Truths, revelations, memories that now serve a purpose were once shoved [...]
Personal Essays | Abandoned, Not Once but Twice
"Both my father and Danny belonged to that time in my past when I first encountered male rejection. They were, in fact, the first perpetrators." [...]
Sweatpants & Parenting | Confessions Over Coffee
Soaking up the quiet of Saturday morning on my patio, I enjoy my coffee in the stillness before being productive becomes my focus. I look up and see my eldest son standing [...]
Sweatpants & Soul | My Love-Hate Relationship with Easter Egg Hunts
Writer Nele Giese writes about how anxiety and introversion made childhood Easter Egg Hunts the stuff of nightmares. [...]
Sweatpants & Books | Mental Health Reading List
Living with a mental illness can feel isolating, hopefully, these books will remind those of you battling with these disorders that you are not alone. [...]
Personal Essay | Catch the Wind
By Marielena Zuniga In the 1960s, many of us were trying to find ourselves. Hair was growing longer and skirts shorter. The Vietnam War. Bob Dylan, the Beatles and Joni [...]
