Amanda Hauser
Stop Trying to Give Your Introverted Child an Extrovert’s Summer
By midsummer, I hear the same questions from parents.
"She'd rather stay home and read than go to the neighborhood pool.""He never asks anyone to...
Forget the Summer Slide: What if Summer is Actually Your Child’s Biggest Opportunity?
Every summer, parents start hearing the same warning. "Don't let your child experience the summer slide." The phrase refers to the academic regression that...
How to Avoid a Bummer, Bummer Summer
The comparison-fatigue-death trap of social media can be a serious bummer. Clearly, everyone is having the perfect summer. Their children are smiling through beach...
Moms: How to Stop Recovering and Start Creating Energy Margin
Ugly truth: Most moms aren’t burned out because they’re doing too much. They’re burned out because they never truly stop. We’ve confused productivity, connection,...
The Art of What Really Sets Kids Apart
If you’ve navigated a graduation recently, you have likely experienced serious comparison fatigue. There is no shortage of impressive kids out there. Peers...
How to Eat an Elephant and Other Advice We are Giving Our Tweens, Teens,...
Take a look at our Christmas card photo this year, and you might think, “Yep, they’ve cracked the code.” Eleven glowingly healthy faces in...
Eliminating Overwhelm in the “Ber” Months
Call me crazy, but as soon as the calendar hits the “ber” months, my heart starts to race. Excitement, anxiety, fear, anticipation - yep,...
Tattle Tales
Time for a quiz. You are standing in the kitchen preparing lunches for the next school day when, like a hurricane, your child flies...
How to Mess Up Your Kid in 10 Ways
Disclaimer: This article does not address serious, universally accepted, traumatic adverse childhood experiences, nor does it dismiss them. It is meant purely for entertainment...
Mom in the Know: When Is It No Longer My Business?
I had a clever topic all primed for my next article, but ditched it about five minutes ago. If I don’t vent this right...
Mom, What Your Adult Son Wants You to Know
There is no shortage of parenting advice. From well-meaning grandparents to influencers to therapists to pediatricians, you can fill volumes with accounts of “good”...
A Dissertation on the Group Chat
Let’s dissect the ever-popular group chat, shall we?First, the family chat, otherwise known as the OG or the Classic. The family chat is the...
The True Story of a Really Big Family
I’m starting a T-shirt company. I have no desire to break into the fashion industry; I have simply exhausted my bandwidth for those seemingly...
Holiday Traditions: What You Do (and Don’t Do) Matter
Hear me out. Before you eye roll, before you stop reading, before you presume you’re not that mom, I reassure you all the holiday...