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From baby’s first year to their first day of school and everything in between (and beyond), we cover topical, timely, and important parenting topics to keep you well-informed (and entertained) in these difficult modern times.

Celebs get real about parenting

“You Love Them and You Can’t Stand Them Sometimes”: The Best Parenting Tips from Kate Hudson, Reese Witherspoon, and more

Sometimes celebs prove they’re more “like us” than we might think. Like when they drop pearls of parenting wisdom that pretty much all of us can agree are universally true.

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Science Says That Parents Aren’t Actually All That Miserable, Despite Seemingly Endless Evidence to the Contrary

Parenting is hard. Everything about it is hard. The messes. The emotions. The relationship struggles. The nothing-going-the-way-they-said-it-would-ness of it all. The screaming. So you’d think that all parents would be nothing but miserable, day-in and day-out. Turns out that’s not the case, at least according to a little thing we like to call science. You

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This is what most parents remember from their school days

This Is The Thing Most Parents Remember About Their School Days

With Labor Day come and gone, and the first days of a new school year in the bag, many parents find themselves wistfully recalling their most vivid school memories. The things most parents remembered most fondly have nothing to do with classes. (Sorry, teachers!) Smuckers — yep, the jam company — ran a survey of 2,000 parents

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Katie Price and son in court

Single Mom Fosters Abandoned Newborn and Soon Realizes She’s The Biological Sister Of Her Adopted Son

This is Katie Price of Parker, Colorado, and these are her beautiful children. But just a few years ago, Katie was newly divorced, completely on her own and searching to find her purpose. Which she discovered was in becoming a foster mom. YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: Nurse Adopts Two-Year-Old Baby Blaze After Caring for Him

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Foot with gout

Swollen Feet? Read about 8 Medical Conditions That Can Cause Feet to Swell Up

When people think of swollen feet, most consider the most common causes for the symptom: pregnancy, injury, or a job that requires a lot of walking. But many get swollen feet when these things aren’t the case. In those situations, what’s the cause? YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: 8 Reasons Sleeping Solo is Good for Your

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Amy Schumer has all the feels about returning to work

Like Every Mom, Amy Schumer Has All The Feels About Heading Back to Work

In an adorable snap shared on her Instagram, comedian and new mom Amy Schumer shared that she has all the feels about heading back to work. YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: New Mom Amy Schumer Is Keeping It Super Real on Social Media, and We Are Living For It Schumer has (mostly) been taking time off

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This Mom Was All Of Us On The First Day of Kindergarten

Mom of three, Carolyn Moore, was fully prepped for summer to end and school to start. She’d done the kindergarten routine before with her two eldest, who just started fifth and third grade respectively. But Moore, a writer at Assignment Mom, wasn’t prepared for the flood of emotions that came with sending her youngest off

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102-Year-Old Dancer Never Saw Herself On Film, Until Now

During the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s and 40s, Alice Barker was a chorus line dancer. She shared the stage with legends like Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and performed at the Apollo and the Zanzibar Club, She also danced in several movies, commercials and TV shows but sadly she had also

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Parents’ “Feral” Kids Shouldn’t Have to Follow Rules Created By Grow Ups, So They Have No Rules And Don’t Have To Go To School

English parents Gemma and Lewis Rawnsley have seven children: Skye is 13, Finlay is 12, Phoenix is 9, Pearl is 8, Hunter is 5, Zephyr is 3, and Woolf is 1. None of the Rawnsley children, so-called “feral” kids, attend school nor are they homeschooled. Gemma and Lewis don’t believe their kids should have to

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