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Perspectives in Parenting

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Sometimes you just need to hear the ideas, thoughts, and opinions of other parents. Our Perspectives in Parenting section is focused on providing a place for you to find out what other moms are thinking and how they are handling the issues that go along with the hard job of being a parent.

There are a lot of different perspectives in parenting and New Orleans Mom is a place where these different ideas can be shared. We strive to provide not just valuable information to mothers across the Crescent City, but also ideas about how to think about the issues in their lives.

In our Perspectives in Parenting section, you’ll find lots of stories about the everyday events, problems, annoyances, and issues that we all face as moms. We talk about the household and the challenges of keeping everyone in the family working together.  We offer tips on how to recognize and reflect on the good things in our lives. We also tackle difficult topics about our society and culture

Some of our perspectives in parenting stories offer key advice on wellness. We take you through some of the challenging parts of motherhood, like how and when to use a breast pump, while also offering an amusing look at alternative uses of breastmilk

Our writers talk about important things that Moms in the Big Easy need to know, such as how to teach financial responsibility to your children or how to survive the stresses of the holiday season. 

With more than 30 contributors to New Orleans Mom, we offer our readers unique Big Easy perspectives in parenting that they won’t find anywhere else. 

I have decided that people who wax poetic about the joys of co-sleeping have magical unicorn children. Not a single child birthed from my womb cares to cooperate or knows how to behave in my bed. Even the 13-month-old...
The Games are coming! I am super excited about the Games starting this weekend. It is amazing to watch the best of the best compete in sports at this level. I have been looking forward to them starting after how much...
“By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better." -Richard Fischer, Adoptive parent Each November child welfare organizations sponsor National Adoption awareness activities across the country....
We are one week down in coronavirus quarantine and I have learned a lot about myself, my family and our fellow man. Here are just a few takeaways. I sorely underestimated the amount of alcohol we would need. #sendtitos #sendchamps...
2020 has been an unbelievably crazy year. It literally started out with the world on fire, and it seems everything has gone downhill from there. While we have all struggled with the chaos that has been thrown at us...

Movies and Menaces

I wrote this post end of July while I was home with Covid. I think it was day 8. I started to get some energy back and the body aches were gone. Apparently, I only had enough energy to...
My second grader has recently become very interested in reading on her own, even turning down movie time to finish a book she’d been desperate to finish for a while. It has brought me a deep sense of joy...
So it was roughly eight years ago (before it was cool) when I cut the cable. I remember it was early January, I had a Google Chromecast for the downstairs TV, I had a Netflix subscription, a Blue-ray player,...
A Love Letter To Our Leading Lady of Weather As I got home from work today, I did my daily scroll down Facebook to see what I missed during my busy afternoon. I let out a loud “awww man!” that...
Pretty Pretty Professional :: The Game We Should Quit Playing A few weeks ago, TikTok creator Jahelis Castillo went viral for claiming that SNL never hires hot women, because “people don’t like it when hot women are funny.” Castillo went...
Why I'm Ditching the Term "Gentle Parenting" When I hear the words “gentle parenting,” I think of a parent like Aunt Petunia in Harry Potter who gives into her obnoxious son’s every demand. Instead, I’m choosing to use the term...
Recently, my friend and New Orleans Mom contributor Joey wrote about her newfound love for audiobooks. I read that blog with a fiery jealousy, thinking to myself, I want that. I’ve also written about my own experience with books– how...
  5 Reasons We Don’t Regret Buying Our Electric Car It has been one year since we bought our Tesla. One week into owning it and I knew I would never go back to a regular car again. A year later,...
Chapelle Graduates Soar to New Heights As Professional Pilots I've shared about my daughters' journies as pilots before, but I am proud to say they are both still flying through life (literally). A lot has changed since I first shared...