How to Give Your Partner Agency as a Parent

March 7, 2016March 6, 2016George Miller

In most parental relationships, there is one parent who defaults to “primary” parent. Usually it’s whichever parent ends up spending more time with their child. Because this parent spends so much time with their child(ren), they know a lot of the ins and outs of what the little one(s) want or need at any given moment. It can be very rewarding to stay at home with your kids, or just spend every moment you can with those adorable little people, but this comes with some challenges. Primary among these challenges is making sure that your co-parent has parental agency. Read more →

How to Choose a Baby Name in 6 Easy Steps

September 28, 2015October 4, 2015George Miller

So you’re going to have a baby! And now you need to come up with a name, or a few names. Where do you start? How do you narrow down a huge list? How do you get your partner to actively participate? While there are lots of methodologies out there, here’s a fairly simple way to go: Read more →

A Quick (Down and Dirty) Primer on Cloth Diapering Lingo

September 22, 2015September 13, 2015George Miller

Prefolds – Your mother’s cloth diaper. These are squares or rectangles of cloth (sometimes with an extra-absorbent center) that can easily be bleached. There are many ways to fold them and you should remember that YouTube is your friend. Read more →

Why No One Told You the Gory Details of Pregnancy, Birth and Having a Newborn

September 17, 2015September 13, 2015George Miller

Imagine this: You are a capable adult human being who has recently found out that you will be ushering another human being into the world sometime within the next nine months. It’s amazing, and extraordinary, and now is the time to figure out everything that you will experience during the process.

Whether you’re super excited, or intellectually fascinated, or you just want to be prepared, when you start looking at all of the things that you may have to deal with (or definitely will have to deal with), it can be a bit disconcerting – to say the least. Read more →

How to Survive as an Introverted Stay-at-Home Parent

September 14, 2015October 24, 2015George Miller

So, after 9 months of blissful pregnancy, or hellish pregnancy, or something in-between, you find yourself with a perfect little baby. The baby is lovely and wonderful and … with you all the time. At first, it isn’t too bad. The baby is small enough that you can watch TV or read or listen to podcasts while you’re holding their adorable little sleeping form. But then they get bigger, and they need your attention … all the time. And if that wasn’t enough, you’re now trapped in your house with a baby that needs your attention all the time. Suddenly you find yourself in need of both alone time and time with other (adult) people and it’s almost impossible to determine which one you need more. So what do you do? Read more →

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Author: George Miller