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Children and Gender Identity: Supporting Your Child

By Mayo Clinic Staff — 2021

Understand the importance of talking with your child about gender identity and expression — and how to get the conversation started.

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When Your Name Becomes ‘Mom,’ Do Your Other Identities Matter?

Finding the road back to yourself after parenthood takes over.

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Rachel Bertsche
2020
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“Some Days It’s Incredibly Difficult”—One Mom Reveals What It’s Like to Co-Parent With an Ex

Every other weekend, on the first, third, and fifth Fridays of the month, my four-year-old son goes to spend the weekend with his father.

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Jackie Effenson
2019
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The Two Reasons Parents Regret Having Kids

Feelings of ambivalence about parenthood aren’t necessarily going to do harm to children. But when regret suffuses the parent-child dynamic, the whole family can suffer.

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Gail Cornwall
2021
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5 Mothers on Their Co-Parenting Advice & Experiences

The traditional family structure of two married parents in one household is on the decline.

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Sara Langer
2018
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Two New Moms Return to Work—One in Seattle, One in Stockholm

Sarah-in-Seattle and Sarah-in-Stockholm are both white, middle-class, married, professional women with babies and toddlers at home. But their experiences as working mothers returning to work after giving birth could not have been more different.

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Caitlyn Collins
2020
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10 Hardest Things About Being a New Mom

Why the first weeks with baby are so tough—and how to get through them.

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Lissa Harnish Poirot
2020
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This Is the Best Advice for New Moms

There's no shortage of advice available to new moms. Between best-selling parenting books, well-meaning family and friends, and even strangers on the street, there's plenty of advice to consider.

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Megan Beauchamp
2021
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When Mommy Dearest Isn’t So Dear: Unpacking ‘Mommy Issues’

Do you have a strained or complicated relationship with your mother? Maybe difficulties from childhood carried over into your adult relationships, setting the stage for complications with romantic partners or your own children.

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Crystal Raypole
2021
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Mother-Son Relationship: Why It Is Important And How It Evolves Over Years

As a four-year-old, Tom used to cling on to his mother at every possible chance; fast forward by ten years he wouldn’t want his mom to enter his room; and now, when he is 25, Tom wouldn’t share his problems with his mom lest she gets worried.

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Kalpana M.
2021
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Healthy Relationships Between Mothers and Adult Sons

Ideas and expectations regarding gender roles have changed quite a bit in the past 50 years. However, the patterns that have influenced human behavior for centuries are still potent, especially when members of older generations are involved.

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Susan Adcox
2021
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