Hi Reader, I am officially done. Done making weekday breakfasts for everyone else. 💃 There are many ways your elementary and older kids can feed themselves that do not have to involve you whatsoever. This does not make you a bad mom. Kids NEED independence and they need to learn they are capable of a whole heck of a lot. There was a part of me that was like, “am I being lazy? Am I avoiding some motherly duty to make them a beautiful breakfast?” No, and noooooooo. Do they maybe need some...

Hi Reader, A mom wrote to me last week sharing a dilemma that I’m sure a lot of you relate to. She was telling me how helpful it is for her kids to eat lunch from the school cafeteria – it saves both time & money – but she worried because other moms said they “wouldn’t feed their kids that crap.” So she wanted to know, is it okay to feed her kids the cafeteria food? Is it really that bad as these other moms are saying? First – I told her that feeding our kids is always about more than just...

Hi Reader, You know when you see some startling headline, like what I just saw yesterday – “sparkling water now linked to colorectal cancer” and you want to know whether it’s ACTUALLY a real concern, or if you can just go on living your life? I wanted to make it quick and easy for you to get to the bottom of it, no matter what the headline is. So I created a prompt that you can copy and paste directly into ChatGPT that will evaluate the claim the same way I would. (Except ChatGPT will do it...