Co-Parenting Diaries

Parenting with a narcissist…

Work / Life balance is hard when you’re a single mother. Especially when you’re under the microscope of a narcissistic co-parent.

In his book “Delivering Happiness”, Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, said:

“Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.”.

As Tony Hsieh went on to explain, it is easy for us to get caught up and engrossed in what we are currently doing, and that makes it easy to forget that we always…

Getting a Grip on Motherhood: an Ode to My Hands

I had heard all about the difficulties of pregnancy — the nausea, the exhaustion, the constant need to pee. A friend of mine experienced crushing migraines, another had such severe swelling she had to wear flip-flops in winter. Yet, I still…

Are you ‘THAT’ mom?

‘That’ mom is the one who speaks up at the meeting when nobody else does. ‘That’ mom is the one who sends her kids to school with the least popular (and healthiest) snack. ‘That’ mom is the one who pulls her child out of testing she doesn’t agree with. ‘That’ mom is the one who decides what…

A couple of ways:

— More intelligent, hard-working young people need to drop out and opt out and defy people’s expectations about dropouts and opt outs. Drop out BECAUSE you have something better than school. Opt out becaus school would be a waste of time. Defy stereotypes. Go above and beyond.