Archive - September 2020

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Respect Life: 9 Ways to Get it Right, Now
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What I’ve Learned From Growing Up With Loss
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Does Being a Parent Really Make You Happy? by Charles Black

Respect Life: 9 Ways to Get it Right, Now

My 6-year-old cousin sits beside me on the couch, madly typing away on an old-fashioned calculator. She asks me, when the screen can’t handle any more digits, What’s this number? I answer: two million, five hundred sixty-four thousand, eight hundred twenty-three. Or something like that. I can only recall the two million for sure. She asks, Is that a big number? Yes, it is. And I pause, adding, I think that’s the number of photographs your mommy and I have looked at this week. She looks at me, not old enough to have a fully-developed number sense, or understand my…

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What I’ve Learned From Growing Up With Loss

Mommy, what happens when we die? My oldest is always good for minivan-stopping moments. Trying to toss his velcro shoe out the window. Determining that blank-staring milking cows are maniacs. Going waaaay existential. At four-years-old, he again (yes, again) flew his old-soul flag and asked the ages-old question. While other children focused on the flying house fueled by colorful balloons in the movie Up, my son was deeply troubled that the main character’s wife died. Thus our first conversation about death and dying. And I thought the birds-and-bees talk would be the tough one. Turns out, I am much better…

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Does Being a Parent Really Make You Happy? by Charles Black

For quite some time I’ve wanted to introduce guest writers into the fold for fresh perspectives and knowledge. So today I am pleased and proud to bring you the first guest blogger on pulseonparenting.com. Ok, it’s my husband. Maybe I took the easy way out. But he wrote this post for his own blog and it fits right it with Pulse’s mission to bring parents information and answer questions in an easy-to-digest manner. And if you enjoy this post and find it helpful, as my husband states on his blog, feel free to share. I have had an on and…

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