Author: Humanist Mom

I’m not paying for my kids to go to college. I refuse. I would do anything for my kids…but I won’t do that. First, I should preface this whole post by saying that I am a firm believer in the power of higher education. I think it is an amazing, wonderfully enriching experience that improved …

Millennials get a bad rap. According to other generations, we are basically the worst. Time Magazine recently published a cover story called “Help! My Parents are Millennials!” and the first paragraph featured a vegan stay at home dad with twin boys named Astral Defiance and Defy Aster. Uggggghhhh. Of all the Millennials they had to …

Parents, we need to talk to our kids about race. In this post, I am going to give you some ideas on how to get started. Honestly, this may be one of the toughest blog posts I have ever written. It is especially heavy to me because of the current social unrest over the tragic …

Are you a kid person? When I had my first, after a while I realized I just didn’t “get” children, and as I have taken more of an active role in learning about parenting, I have noticed the same trait in a lot of other people. I’m not saying any of you are bad parents; …

The Hero and the Villain. The good guy and the bad guy. A yin to a yang. Two sides of the same coin. Every story has a protagonist and an antagonist. It is tropes like these that we all love to watch and read; as a rule, people love watching the good guy defeat the bad …

I have too many toys in my house. With 3 young kids, it feels like we have every toy under the sun. As a matter of fact, it’s gotten so ridiculous that I can hardly come up with any good ideas for Christmas presents for them this year. I just feel like we have enough …