Parenting

Whether you’re looking for help and information about your parents or as a parent or guardian yourself, this section’s got it covered. It includes information for parents or guardians of every age, including teen parents, and for parenting toddlers to teens. You’ll also find help here with family planning, like working out if now is or isn’t a good time for you to become a parent in the first place.

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Articles and Advice in this area:

Advice
  • Sarah Riley

The answer to that question depends entirely on the parents in question. Parents are people and many have sexual desires just as do folks who don’t have children. Just like anybody else, folks who are parents may have more or less sex of any given type throughout their lives. In general, we do know…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

Let’s do what we can to work this out, okay? I know it’s tough – especially if you’re also dealing with trauma in your family – and it’s scary, but it really is workable. I don’t know what you mean when you say you’re always careful, but there are currently – sparing men or women who get…

Advice
  • Sarah Riley

If you are interested in becoming pregnant, the first thing to do is to get to your health care provider and speak with them about it. One of the most important things to do is to make sure that your body is as healthy as possible before trying to conceive (that will go a long way toward your having…

Article
  • Alice B.

I painted a picture of pure, perfect mommyhood to anyone who would (or had to) listen. He rides in the sling all day! I never get tired, I’m too happy! I grow all of his food in my backyard and I have a nice, hot dinner on the table for my partner when he gets home from his hard day at work! And we never, ever fight. I was born for this job! Yeah, right.

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  • Heather Corinna

Teen pregnancy and parenting are hard, so if you’re thinking about trying to make it happen, here’s some food for thought.