Category: motherhood

In Celebration of Motherhood

Leslie Means is a Nebraska-based mother of three who has been engaging the audience of her popular blog, “Her View From Home,” for years. There, she talks about things like motherhood, marriage, relationships, grief, and faith. I recently asked her about her new  book, “So God Made a Mother: Tender, Proud, Strong, Faithful, Known, Beautiful,…


Motherhood Is About Loving Your Imperfect Self—And Giving That Love to Others

It was after her second MMR vaccine, that life of Helena Hjalmarsson’s then three year old daughter had changed. “She had her first of many seizures,” Hjalmarsson spoke on Frontline Health. “She had lost control of her jaw muscle and drooled for two and a half weeks. She got confused, she lost all of her…


What Women Really Want

Commentary American poet Carl Sandburg once wrote, “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” However, this view is not shared by doomsayers in the United States and Western countries who push “depopulation,” believing the world is overpopulated. Their response to this “crisis” is to advocate for unhindered access to birth control and abortion….


Helping Moms Go After Their Goals and Dreams

It’s no secret that moms wear many hats. Keeping it all together can feel like a mere pipe dream at times. Nikki Oden seems to be figuring it out. She is the founder of Your Ideal Mom Life, host of the Love Your Mom Life podcast, and author of the new book, “But Definitely Wear…


People Can’t Believe the Size of This Adorable Baby

He’s very much a real baby and perfectly healthy. (Video courtesy of Nabille McHugh) …


Momma Bear Struggles With Cubs

As a single mom, raising quadruplets makes her a superhero! …


The Pro-Choice Fairytale

Commentary Fairytales have been told across cultures and continents for millennia. More than simply an entertaining story, fairytales are a culture’s vehicle to share its values and underscore its most prized virtues. We know many of their familiar themes and patterns, having heard them since early childhood. One recurring fairytale plot is the evil queen…


The Best and Hardest Job You May Ever Have

By Lori Borgman It was C day in kindergarten recently. C being for career, kids came dressed as the career they wanted to have when they grew up. A 6-year-old granddaughter who sports a mop of curly auburn hair, eats like food is a full-body contact sport, yet is built like a string bean, went wearing…


Swan Babies Are Going for Their First Swim

It takes a while for all of them to muster their courage to jump into the lake. (Video courtesy of Black Swans of Dawlish.) …


The Baby Effect

Most women know the downsides of having children later in life, but the positives often get overlooked. One of the major upsides is that women who have children later in life may live longer than childless women or women who have children at younger ages. That’s what a 2015 study, published in the journal Menopause,…