Articles

Melissa Stanton’s parenting and mom-related articles have appeared in Parenting, Pregnancy & Newborn, Nesting and Brain,Child, among other magazines, and on websites including CleverParents.com, ParentingBookmark.com, TheMomsBuzz.com, MomScape.com, DrLaura.com and Hitched.com. Following are links to some of Melissa’s mom-related essays and articles:

(P.S. We're still linking, so apologies if some connections don't yet work.)

* = Articles specific to being a stay-at-home mom

Personal finance:

• Social Security & Stay-at-Home Moms*

Kid care:

• Babies on a Plane!
• Baby Care Back-up Plans: What to do when you're down to the last diaper, forgot a bib, run out of milk
• Developmental Delays: A Mother Knows When Something's Just Not Right
• When Violence Creeps into Children's Lives
  

Life Stuff:

• The Evening Rush Hour
  
• How Brad Pitt Convinced Me to Sell My Silver—and Simplify My Life

Mom care:

• A "Giggle Job" at WIlliams-Sonoma Kept Me Sane
• It's Okay to Not Always Love Being a Stay-at-Home Mom*
  
• Five Mothering Challenges We Can All Relate To
• Mommy Wars are not the answer
• Mothers in Love with Twilight’s Edward Cullen
• Motherhood and More
• Too Tired for Sex

Motherhood is a Job:

• Busy But Bored*
• Help Wanted: “Mother” (Classified ads for the jobs you really do)
• Why You Can’t Get Anything Done (or "Do I Have ADHD?")*

Multiples (caring for twins+):

• A Two-Minute Pep Talk for the Expectant Mother of Multiples