All posts by Rebecca Eckler
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Labor Pains: I Packed My Hospital Bag As If I’d Be Spending Weeks At A Five-Star Resort
I’m not sure what’s worse: Packing your child up for her first day of school after Labor Day...
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Having More Kids Around Has Improved My Sex Life!
In a recent post on this very site, writer Samantha Bailey wrote about her (sadly) non-existent sex life:...
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Back To School: I’m Envious Of My Daughter’s Education And What It Means For Her
I grew up in the suburbs in Toronto. Back when I was my daughter’s age, I had a...
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How To Deprogram Your Kids After Camp (Enough With The Eye Rolling!)
Calling Dr. Drew! Or A&E’s Intervention! My daughter just returned to camp and I need help! For...
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My Daughter And I Share A Bed. Judge All You Want
I’m not at all judgmental when it comes to how other parents raise their children. Because I don't...
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I Was Drunk And Unmarried When I Had Her, But I Want My Daughter To Do It Differently
My book, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-be – the first in a trilogy of...
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Breaking Up With A Best Friend Is Like A Messy Divorce
Our relationship was shredded. After 'The Big Blow Out' I knew our relationship would, or could, never be...
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Why Summer Camps Should Have Mandatory Uniforms
On this site a few weeks ago, Mollie Hemingway wrote an interesting piece about school uniforms...
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Does My Mother Love My Daughter More Than She Loves Me?
Is it possible that my mother loves my daughter more than she loves, or has ever, loved me?...
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I Detest The Word ‘Stepmom.’ We Need A New Word For What I Am
The other day I received a Facebook message from one of my boyfriend’s daughters that read, “I love...
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Where’s My Plus One? My Boyfriend’s Kids Gets An Invite But Mine Doesn’t
I told my boyfriend, point blank, that my daughter and I come as a “package deal“ and...
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Should Little Kids See A Therapist?
A couple months after my boyfriend and I got together, his 11-year-old daughter started seeing a therapist. This,...
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Hey, Guess What, Random Mom? Your Child Sucks!
I made the grave mistake recently of e-mailing a mother in my daughter's class and pretty much telling...
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Parent-Teacher Interviews Are A Total Waste Of Time (I Skip Them)
The sink in my main floor washroom is “design-flawed.†It is a contemporary sink and looks good, yet...
