Parenting Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/parenting/ words and images for mindful humans Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:50:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.emmpress.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Screenshot-2026-03-10-at-12.16.43-PM-32x32.png Parenting Archives — EMMpress https://www.emmpress.com/category/parenting/ 32 32 What happened to the chicken bag? https://www.emmpress.com/what-happened-to-the-chicken-bag/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-happened-to-the-chicken-bag Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:51:00 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=17129 The types of explanations we received as kids about the mundane questions of life, alters how we develop our capacity for internal reasoning. Becoming educated with diversity of…

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]]> non-shop adventures and the underappreciated art of window shopping https://www.emmpress.com/non-shop-adventures-and-the-underappreciated-art-of-window-shopping/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=non-shop-adventures-and-the-underappreciated-art-of-window-shopping Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:29:27 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=16261 Here’s a little story about non-shop adventures and participating in your local economy even when you aren’t flush with currency. It’s like flash-mobbing a business you love, but…

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]]> Generational Curse Breaking for an Everyday Lady https://www.emmpress.com/generational-curse-breaking-for-an-everyday-lady/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=generational-curse-breaking-for-an-everyday-lady Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:37:08 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=14641 Disclaimer: in order to do this, you don’t actually have to be a lady. I am case in point. I’m also not recommending you believe in curses per…

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]]> Mother of https://www.emmpress.com/mother-of/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mother-of Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:38:22 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=13891 I was out late last night at a concert with my teenager. Total bonding experience, and great to see how even punk and goth music can still send…

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]]> Relatable-ish: Mourning & Anticipation https://www.emmpress.com/relatable-ish-mourning-anticipation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=relatable-ish-mourning-anticipation Thu, 22 May 2025 13:21:14 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12612 I’ve been struggling to relate to the folks in my daily life, because I’ve stopped trying to “fit” into a role that I thought was easily understood in…

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]]> Feeling Free on the Mother of all days https://www.emmpress.com/feeling-free-on-the-mother-of-all-days/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feeling-free-on-the-mother-of-all-days Sun, 11 May 2025 15:37:10 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=12093 Sunday is Mothers Day and I’m going to try again to divest myself of all planned work, chores, conversations, and responsibilities; while avoiding expectant smiles about having a…

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]]> The Fairness Container https://www.emmpress.com/the-fairness-container/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fairness-container Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:58:16 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=11663 As a mom of a 12 and 15 year old, I often get to hear pissy words about fairness. Last week’s rollick of a road trip, there were…

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]]> So, I’m at the grocery store, not buying eggs https://www.emmpress.com/so-im-at-the-grocery-store-not-buying-eggs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=so-im-at-the-grocery-store-not-buying-eggs Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:01:07 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10581 I’m seeing young parents wheeling around their kids in carts, and think: I did that. Yeah, I had kids, am still raising them, and I deserve some kind…

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]]> Nurse Maid Bird | Movie Mode https://www.emmpress.com/nurse-maid-bird-movie-mode/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nurse-maid-bird-movie-mode Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:39:40 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=10335 I shouldn’t be happy when my 15 year old daughter is home sick, but I am. I delight in getting to take care of her because there are…

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]]> Naming, Angels, and Missing Sisters https://www.emmpress.com/names-angels-and-missing-sisters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=names-angels-and-missing-sisters Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:28:54 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=8679 Can anyone truly see what’s missing? It’s a paradoxical view. What’s in a name? One of my teachers told me folks with the last name DeAngelis or DiPrete…

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]]> Ordinary Abortion Story https://www.emmpress.com/ordinary-abortion-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ordinary-abortion-story Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:56:57 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=7746 If you know me at all, you know I try to let my work speak for itself, and I don’t like to reveal myself clearly online. It’s scary…

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]]> What is God? https://www.emmpress.com/what-is-god/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-god Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:19:45 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=7670 I asked my 11 year old son on our walk this morning, after a long ramble through the woods where we talked about the philosophy of cross country…

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]]> the web https://www.emmpress.com/the-web-workers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-web-workers Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:24:55 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=5492 As a web-worker myself, I find myself doing this every day; working on the Internet. That’s my ‘web’ and the moniker of my company. Sometimes connectivity feels like…

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]]> Calling all Creators https://www.emmpress.com/calling-all-creators/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=calling-all-creators Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:13:16 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=4156 Our children need our protection not infantilization. It’s time for creators to stop producing trite, dopamine-drippy, algorithmically-oriented content, and offer instead true stories that count. Like family origin…

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]]> toney atone: my family goals https://www.emmpress.com/toney-atone-my-family-goals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toney-atone-my-family-goals Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:18:38 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3249 There are a few things I’ve been saying to my family,  hoping they’ll see things I see as problems and make “us” feel better. No one has wanted…

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]]> unsolicited something for ya https://www.emmpress.com/unsolicited-wisdom-for-ya/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unsolicited-wisdom-for-ya Thu, 26 Oct 2023 17:58:07 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=3218 on Vulnerablity, Shame, and Energy Exchange Dear Young Adult,  Last night you said that you felt I shamed you when I pointed out bad posture, or mimicked behaviors…

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]]> Survival is a fast car https://www.emmpress.com/survival-is-a-fast-car/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=survival-is-a-fast-car Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:17:21 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2891 On a recent talk the speaker asked her audience how many were “in survival mode.” One quarter of the hands went up.* I found this revelatory, not because…

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]]> “getting it” by being grounded https://www.emmpress.com/groundedness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=groundedness Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:46:38 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2863 Hi T & O! Hey, you totally don’t want to hear a lecture from me, but I have so much to tell you before I get too old,…

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]]> Black Hat Bots & Mad Gratitude https://www.emmpress.com/black-hat-bots-mad-gratitude/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=black-hat-bots-mad-gratitude Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:38:51 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2665 I have 15 minutes to write this. Black Hat Part Some hack-bot came through this website and inserted viagra ads into some of my paragraphs. It’s not dangerous…

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]]> Stretched Thin – Christmas Wishes https://www.emmpress.com/stretched-thin-christmas-wishes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stretched-thin-christmas-wishes Sat, 24 Dec 2022 15:05:24 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2470 “I’m stretched too thin!” I’m pretty sure I’ve been saying this to anyone who would listen, including playing this complaint on internal repeat for the last two months.…

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]]> delaborate https://www.emmpress.com/delaborate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=delaborate Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:09:50 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2473 Odin: so I was working on my narrative at school, and it was long, so I decided to delaborate on the spaghetti. . #Odinisms #ProudMom #CoinedIt!

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]]> make all the same mistakes I did https://www.emmpress.com/all-the-same-mistakes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=all-the-same-mistakes Mon, 04 Jul 2022 17:59:55 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2403 There’s been so much discontent between us, eldest kid. Maybe this is from me trying to shield you from mistakes, preventing you from falling on your face, and…

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]]> Beyond Belief https://www.emmpress.com/beyond-belief/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beyond-belief Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:06:32 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2360 I don’t go to church, my kids don’t either. The other day I realized that even though I don’t engage with organized religion anymore, that there are many…

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]]> How to take a mental health day https://www.emmpress.com/how-to-take-a-mental-health-day-steps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-take-a-mental-health-day-steps Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:56:41 +0000 https://www.emmpress.com/?p=2341 skip to steps Today my 8 year old son and I took a mental health day. This was at my suggestion after he’d run into a frustration-styled brick…

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]]> Holiday Jealousy. On Making Cheer https://www.emmpress.com/holiday-jealousy-on-making-cheer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=holiday-jealousy-on-making-cheer Tue, 26 Dec 2017 12:50:24 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1627 I’ve got to admit, I’ve been feeling a little sorry for myself. I feel like I work really hard taking care of a thousand things, and yet, I…

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]]> Dear Ms Grace https://www.emmpress.com/dear-ms-grace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dear-ms-grace Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:08:52 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1519 It’s (one of) your middle names, and you deserve it. This morning you did something that made me so amazed, so incredibly proud and so astonished that you…

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]]> Tasslenisms – Part 3 https://www.emmpress.com/tasslenisms-part-three/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tasslenisms-part-three Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:46:59 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1402 Dog feeding time: Odin: I’m going to give the dogs a boutique! Me: Really? Tasslen: No Odin, a boutique is a bunch of flowers. You want to give…

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]]> A message to my son on Mother’s Day https://www.emmpress.com/a-message-to-odin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-message-to-odin Fri, 12 May 2017 13:51:04 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1334 Hi O! You are four now, and not one for lengthy or deep conversations, but there are so many things I want to say to you, so I’ll…

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]]> Message for my daughter on Mother’s Day https://www.emmpress.com/message-for-tasslen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=message-for-tasslen Fri, 12 May 2017 12:23:17 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=1319 Hi Tas, This morning I was in the bathroom and saw our little message chicken (you know, the one with a set of little papers with nice sayings…

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]]> Aloft https://www.emmpress.com/aloft/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aloft Sun, 08 Jan 2017 20:40:42 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=913 This is my theme for the day. It has to be. I am exhausted from running too many things, and there is snow on the ground, and all…

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]]> The conversation https://www.emmpress.com/the-conversation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-conversation Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:46:29 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=772 This morning my daughter lied to me. Not about anything big, or even particularly important, but the lie was said, then backed up by demonstrations to “prove” its…

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]]> Simple truisms for my 6 year old https://www.emmpress.com/simple-truisms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=simple-truisms Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:04:47 +0000 http://www.emmpress.com/?p=631 Don’t push hard unless you are aiming correctly. True for arms in sleeves, and everything else. You will have bumps in your socks most days, ignore them. Not…

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