I’m 22 weeks pregnant with my second child, and my daughter, who is 6, is very excited for the long-awaited baby sibling. But it's been a while, and I’d clearly forgotten a lot regarding pregnancy.Â

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I say we bring back home economics and shop classes. Here's why, and what new versions of them would look like.

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Hear me out! Here are 5 reasons I won’t be giving gifts this year.

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Yeah, it’s kind of cute, and I’m sure kids get a big kick out of it during the holidays. But even though my daughter is still a baby, I have already decided I’m never getting her an elf, and there are a few reasons why.

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While I’d certainly heard of postpartum depression, I didn’t know that there was even such a thing as prenatal depression, and that so many people experience it.

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Whether your tree is real or fake, it’s going to attract your kid’s attention. It lights up, it’s colorful, and it has a lot of sparkly, dangly things hanging from it that look a lot like toys. And it might even look like fun to climb.

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I have a photo that shows my teen daughters playing a game using small rectangular pieces of cardboard with symbols on them. Otherwise known as "playing cards," this ancient pastime was made obsolete by the digital age and hasn't been seen among the teen population in years, having gone the way of other old-timey activities like letter writing and making eye contact.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Or is it? Moms everywhere are bracing themselves for the next few weeks of Christmas shopping, and “wonderful” might not be the way they’d describe it. Here are some other thoughts racing through their overworked, over-shopped minds.

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"I Had So Much Body Confidence Until I Got Pregnant".

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Getting older gives you the gift of being okay with feeling exhausted by certain people or situations and leaning into it.

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