Parenting Perspectives

I was 17 months pregnant at the time and HUGE. When I say HUGE, I mean the HUGE like I’m having twins but there’s really only one baby in there. HUGE like I have cankles on my cankles. HUGE...

October is National Bullying Prevention Month. In 2007, the Iowa Legislature enacted legislation, now codified as Iowa Code section 280.28, stating all school districts and accredited nonpublic schools in Iowa will have anti-harassment/anti-bullying policies in place, and will utilize...

For almost a month now, I have been involved in some sketchy activity. It feels sketchy, anyway.... Early this summer, after welcoming her fourth baby, a friend of mine realized that she would have four days a week with just two...

It was Sunday afternoon. The kids had gone outside to ride their bikes, and my husband had stepped into the garage. I was alone in the living room doing some exercises when five-year-old Isabel burst through the door. “Amariah...

Our morning routine Monday through Friday is always the same. Get up. Brush our teeth. Get dressed. Go to daycare. We have a very short time frame to do drop-off before the school bus picks up. Lately, daycare drop-off has been...

On the eve of each of my kids' birthdays, I like to think about what I was doing on my last night as a pregnant lady, just before we met our new baby. I think about how I felt, how I...

We learn things from other moms all the time. I take the good things and apply them to my life. I take the things that don't fit and leave them behind. It's how I survive. Most of us aren't writing any...

As I approached the delivery of our second child, I couldn’t help but find myself feeling guilty. Guilty that our firstborn wasn’t going to get the love and attention we had been able to give him the past three...

Meet Kristin New to the Des Moines Moms Blog team is Kristin Schaaf, whom we are excited to have managing our Instagram account. Kristin is a first-time mom to her 10-month-old daughter, Hannah, and lives with her husband, David, in...

I fear my kids growing up. I do. Will they be safe? Will they be healthy? Will they find their passion? Will they make good decisions? Will their mistakes be minor enough to climb back from? The world is a...