A Mother No Matter What

A mother is a mother is a mother regardless of whether she is on a business trip 6,000 miles away from home or whether her “baby” joins the military and is deployed to the middle of nowhere… or if she’s doing time in a North Korean labor camp. The latter situation is what Euna Lee is dealing with right now. Lee is an American journalist and mother of an adorably cute 4-year-old daughter with her husband Michael. She is also the colleague of Laura Ling, whose sister Lisa was a former member of ABC’s “The View” and current investigative correspondent … Continue reading

Bonding with Baby

We read lots of books and watch lots of movies and we hear a lot about the bond between a parent and their child. What is this bond? How does it affect us? Why do we bond with our babies? What if we never bond with our baby? Is it okay if you don’t like newborns? My husband’s grandmother had 8 children. She didn’t like newborns, but she loved her children. My own grandmother didn’t care for newborns too much. They were work. They needed to have everything done for them, but she did love kids. So if they didn’t … Continue reading