The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

Kindergarten was the first time that anyone mentioned my son’s unfocused behavior, his dreaminess, and his inability to concentrate. But it was only kindergarten - he didn’t need the concentration of a monk.
In first grade, things began to change. From the beginning, his teacher told me the same things the Kindergarten teacher had said. But […]

Shaken, not stirred? Tossed lightly? What best blends a blended family? Often it feels like those days when I don’t have a dinner plan. I gather odd items from the cupboards and throw a meal together. It has the essentials of a meal, but not in any combination I’ve ever served before.
I embarked on the […]

Some great new mama bloggers are joining the MotherVerse blog this week.
Welcome to our new writers!

A mother is honored three times more than the father in Islam because of these three things:
1. Pregnancy
2. Childbirth
3. Breastfeeding
It was elaborated by a prominent Muslim scholar that a mother has to undergo those three while a father only participates in raising the child in other ways. So a child’s duty towards the mother is […]

Just to let everyone know we are revamping our categories a bit and all of our blogger specific categories, such as “Living with Kids” by Juli Herman or “Writing Amidst the Chaos” by Kris Underwood can now be found under the “Specific Bloggers” category.
Thanks…

I am looking at a picture of my sister from the summer of her death 24 years ago. She is 19 and standing in a group of others from the summer stock theater group she is traveling with during the break between her freshman and sophomore years of college.
She is an actress. Beautiful and blonde; distant […]

Food allergy was a foreign topic to me until I saw for myself the trouble my friend has to go through with her multiple allergic 3 year old. It was still foreign to me until I had Baby in April of 2007.
I had my firstborn in 1997. She had and still has recurring outbreaks of […]

Recently I have joined the Stars Mars program.  In the senior living community, where I just moved, they have many activities.
I considered this program very worthwhile.
Every Tuesday morning at nine fifteen we go to the elementarey school and help first grade children with their reading.
I was assigned two little girls.  It has been a long […]

Every family has at least one funny story. I thought that all of you bloggers would enjoy this one about my family.
It really happened!!
Our family, (including me), was known for being stubborn.
Uncle Harry, my father’s brother, was a prominent Dr.
He specialized in kidney problems.
So the story goes———–
My grandfather died when Uncle Harry was […]

Reading Emotionally Healthy Twins[….] by Joan A. Friedman (Da Capo Press 2008) got me all riled up. Stop on over my blog to see what I mean.