Parenting

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   Most parents do too much for their kids. Sometimes, I’m one of those parents. There are days when

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Most parents think about whether or not their approach to child-rearing is effective. But, given the circumstances of our

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   I’m one of those Xennial parents, one born in the early 1980s who was heavily influenced by Gen-X

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   2026 is upon us. We parents have some heavy lifting to do. This is the year we should be

The holidays can leave some of us resenting the ‘ho, ho, ho’ and instead suppressing the urge to scream ‘no, no, no’ By Melissa

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   Unless you live under a rock, at the bottom of an ocean, on a planet in a galaxy

Modern parenting has become synonymous with exhaustion By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   Whether you are working too many hours trying to put food

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   Most of the time, when I get disappointed in myself as a parent, it’s because I lashed out at

Childhood isn’t what it was in the ‘80s and ‘90s By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   I recently hosted an end-of-year party for my

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   There is no way to mentally prepare for being a parent. Most of us go to great lengths