Hand in Hand shares suggestions on how families can best address and support the domestic workers they employ in response to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Category: Parenting
That Cry Means Something: Infant Potty Training
Seven families navigated infant potty training through a technique called Elimination Communication for a year and share how it went.
Top 5 Stories of 2020
Check out our five most popular articles published on our Highs and Lows Blog in 2020!
A Beginner’s Guide to 529 Plans
A guide to 529 education tuition savings plans; what they are, what they’re for, and who can start putting money into one.
Delegate, Delegate, Delegate.
Estate planning lawyer, Megan Gebhardt, shares about the purpose and significance of the Durable Power of Attorney document.
Your Kids Are Not Too Young
BY SHAWNA GAMACHE (Estimated reading time: 6 minutes) Like a lot of white people raised in the 80s and 90s, I grew up learning racism was bad. Racists were evil and would make themselves known through the blatantly terrible things they said and did. My job as a good white person would be to speak up when this happened. Besides…
Building Parenting Confidence in the Time of Coronavirus
Six families share about how their virtual PEPS group was a lifeline for connection and support.
Pandemic Parenting: A Look Forward to Fall
How are parents carrying the burden of everyday parenting, jobs, remote learning, while aiming to balance screen time with physical and mental health – all during a pandemic? One local parent shares with us the community and sense of connection she is relying on…
Our Mission: Save Lives
Water safety can literally save a life. Read on how one mother’s personal experience has inspired her to start a nonprofit organization focused on water safety and drowning prevention.
How early parenthood prepared me for quarantine
I’ve never lived through a pandemic before. But like all parents, I know what it’s like to have my world shrink. My world used to be much tinier than this, those first weeks after I had each baby when I barely left my bedroom, and the months afterward when even a walk down the street sometimes seemed impossible.
The quarantine’s tight intimacy has been strangely familiar, so sweet and so suffocating at the same time. Thanks to those early baby years, I know what it’s like to have my world close in on me and my children, and how to re-craft my expectations around those new boundaries. Luckily, this time around, I have that past experience to guide me.