The MyBrownBaby Parenting Playlist: This is How I Neo-Soul Parent My Teens
My “parenting playlist” of advice would be set to some D’Angelo-styled melodies over a dope Dilla beat, with these Parenting in 100 Words bites of how-to’s on raising fierce girls.
Nothing Even Matters: A Poetic Prophecy for My Little Girl
In celebration of National Poetry Month, a poem celebrating brown mommies and baby girls.
Childless and Okay With It For Now: When Babysitting Wears You Out
She's knows she wants a family of her own, but she wonders what happens when you can’t give them back at the end of day?
What Matters Most On Thanksgiving Day and Every Day
A MyBrownBaby Thanksgiving treat!
The Souls of Black Folk: Tasting the Duality of African American Life During a Fancy Dinner With Our Girls
When we took our daughters to one of the Top 5 restaurants in Atlanta, we got a sociological experience that gave our daughters a window into the rest of their lives.
Zero Years a Slave: Setting my Child Free from Generational Bondages
Watching "Twelve Years A Slave" made Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts think long and hard about her own mental/emotional bondage, and ways she can avoid passing along her baggage to her daughter.
{Faith & Motherhood} The Solution to Selfishness: Parenthood
Want to control—or even eliminate—selfishness? I have the perfect solution! Have a baby!
{Faith & Motherhood} Developing My Child’s ‘Character’: The Greatest Ghostwriting Gig Ever
I'm helping to write the first few chapters of my daughter’s life, so that I don't miss the opportunity to inject lessons that she'd never come up with on her own.
{Faith & Motherhood} Teaching Children To Pray—Purposefully and From the Heart
Lord knows I smile big and cheesy when I hear my daughter say her grace or put her hands together for prayer before we go night-night. But I think it’s just as important that when someone at school hurts her feelings, she knows she can go inside herself and pray about that too.
{Faith & Motherhood} The Joy in Tears: A Mother Learns the Benefit Of A Good Cry
There was a time when I would have viewed my tears, not as a way to cleanse my soul or to release the heaviness of heartache and pain, but as a sign of weakness. As if being weak (as in vulnerable) is a bad thing. It isn’t.
