Conversation Starters: Connecting with Your Kids

Conversation Starters: Connecting with Your Kids

It’s dinner time, you’re exhausted after work, your kids are clamoring for attention and starving. You want to spend time with your kids, feed them and wind up your night. What do you do? Spending time together in the kitchen kills all kinds of birds, beyond the one...
Trust Your Instincts

Trust Your Instincts

MomPower Contributor Lisa Van De Graaff I gave birth to my baby at 2:40am, twenty-seven hours after those first pains I’d waited so long to feel. The contractions were regular from the start, and progressed normally. I rode the waves with the help of my partner, who...
Weight Loss and Better Health

Weight Loss and Better Health

I will be 40 next year. That’s a good 20 years of being a grown up, and one thing that has plagued me through my entire adult life is my weight. Ew. Even talking about it makes me cringe and want to run away. But, I’ve committed – to myself more than anyone else – to...