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One day I came across an article about stressful life events which mentioned a stress inventory test. Experiencing many stressful events resulted in a high score and a high score meant you were at risk for stress-related health problems. Although parenting a child with mental health needs isn’t specifically on the list, items like change in financial state (check), increase in arguments about child raising (check) and change in health/behavior of a family member (double check) certainly are. A few times, I’d jokingly tell a friend that I was getting close to setting a record for stress points

Lately, there has been a lot of controversy over an ad that the company Gillette released on January 13, 2019. There is an argument that the commercial is making it so that men are soft and not the masculine figures so many believe that a man should be, while the subtitle of the ad is “The Best a Man Can Be

When my son was born, the nurse in the hospital told me he was an old soul. She could tell, she said, just by looking in his eyes

I remember that moment when I realized that there was no way I could do this without help. I had tried every technique I knew, been patient, yelled some, loved my son with all my heart and absolutely nothing got better