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Featuring parenting and relationship questions (and answers!) from our community of real moms, this content features advice on a wide range of important topics. For the best advice from real moms, this is where you want to be.
I’m Going Nuts! Someone Help Me With My Whiny Toddler!
“He’s always been a little whiny, but now it’s to the point where I’m literally going nuts.”
My Daughter Hates Her Daycare So Much She’s Made Herself Sick. What Do I Do?
“From the moment I pick my daughter up from daycare she begs not to go the next day, and worries all night about what time I’m going to get her the following day.”
I have a 6-month-old and I’m thinking about having baby #2. Is it too soon?
“What’s the best age gap? I want my kids to be close in age because I feel like they will be able to relate to each other more.”
I Want More Kids. My Husband Doesn’t. How Can I Get Him to Change His Mind?
“He feels like our family is complete. I don’t!”
Should I Consider Medication So That My Three-Year-Old Will Go to Sleep Before 3 a.m.?
“What time should a 3-year-old go to bed every night?”
How Do I Make My Own Family Stop Weight-Shaming Me?
Any advice for this mom, who is dealing with an awful situation?
Can I Take Out a Restraining Order Against My Mother-in-Law?
A mom writes in asking for advice. She wants to know if it would be possible to get a restraining order against her mother-in-law, who, she says, continues to make unnecessary threats against her family. Over on the Mamas Uncut Facebook page, our robust community of moms is always having a conversation about topics that matter. …
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Is It OK to Talk to Members of the Opposite Sex When You’re in a Committed Relationship?
A mom writes in looking for advice: Is it OK to be friends with, and talk to, people of the opposite sex when you are married? Even if you are just friends?
Is It a Bad Idea to Let My Fiancé’s Schizophrenic Sister Live With Us and Our 7-Year-Old Daughter?
A mom writes in asking about a tricky family situation. Should she let her fiancé’s schizophrenic sister, who is described as “very mentally ill,” live with her family, including her 7-year-old daughter?
My Ex’s New Wife Posted Pictures of My Child on Social Media, Despite Having Never Met Her: Any Advice?
How would you feel if your ex’s new wife posted photos of your child without permission?
Is It Bad Me and My Husband Don’t Want a Second Child?
A mom writes in asking for advice about having an only child. She and her husband say they don’t want a second child, but family and friends are pressuring them to have more. What should she do?
Tales From Motherhood: How I Learned to Accept Becoming a Single Mom at 18
“I was scared of what people were going to say, about telling my parents. I was scared of it all.”
Tales From Motherhood: Finding Out I Was Pregnant Was the Best Day of My Life, But Then My Doctor Called With Bad News
But don’t worry: there’s a happy ending!
Ever Since I Had a Baby, I Am Repulsed by My 4-Year-Old Niece Even Though We Used to Be Very Close
Are these feelings normal or indicative of postpartum depression?
Tales From Motherhood: After Trying to Have a Baby for 10 Years, I Finally Had One… and That’s When Things Got Really Hard
“I didn’t want to go anywhere; I wanted to stay home. I was scared to take my baby to Walmart, my anxiety was so bad.”
I Just Became a Single Mom and Have Absolutely No Clue What to Do: Any Advice?
A single mom writes to us and says she’s losing her mind trying to take care of everything alone.
Tales From Motherhood: How I Am Working Through Family Life with a Violent Stepson
A mom writes to us with her story of motherhood. She shares the toughest experience she’s faced as a mom, which involved an autistic stepson prone to violent outbursts that have traumatized her other children.
I’ve Been Married for Eight Years, and My Mother-in-Law Dislikes Me So Much She Didn’t Invite Me to My Stepdaughter’s Wedding. What Can I Do?
Mother-in-law drama… We’ve all been there, right?!
Tales From Motherhood: How One Mom Made It Through Postpartum Depression, Addiction, and More
A mom writes to us with her story of motherhood, which includes a scary medical event, a battle with addiction, difficult men, and struggles with postpartum depression and anxiety.
Real Moms Reveal the Single Best Piece of Parenting Advice They Were Given Before Having Children
What’s the best piece of advice you were given before having kids?
Real Moms Share the Most Overrated Parenting Advice They Wish They’d Never Received
Good parenting advice is shockingly hard to come by. There’s just so much of it out there. It can come from anyone or anything: a family member, a friend, a book, a commenter on the internet. What can be trusted? What do you do if certain sworn-by advice doesn’t work for your family? We know …
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Real Moms Share the One Piece of Parenting Advice They Wish They’d Been Given Before Having Kids
When you’re a mom, or about to become a mom, advice comes with the territory. Good advice, unsolicited advice, advice from unexpected people. But not all advice is equal, and some of the best advice somehow manages to elude the moms who need it most. So we ask: What is the one piece of parenting …
My Boyfriend Put My One-Year-Old Baby in a Potentially Dangerous Situation, But am I Overreacting?
What’s a protective mama to do?