Am I a bad parent if I don't agree with gentle parenting? I've tried it, trust me. If you're anxious, your child will be anxious. If you're too firm, they'll have attachment issues. If you're not firm enough, they'll be spoiled. I'm tired of all the advice. Also, where did all this advice come from? I talk to a few moms and Rachel Tombari, LCP, one of my favorite therapists, to discuss Dr. Becky, gentle parenting, anxiety, motherhood, and how to stop caring so much about caring about ev...

Only children are weird. It's selfish to have an only child. Only children are lonely. There's so much pressure...To be a woman. To be a mom. To have a kid. Then to have another kid. Because you can't just have ONE KID. It's selfish to have an only child. But is it? I speak to two mothers who have (by choice and not) to have only children. Are they happy? Are theirs kids happy? Do they feel guilty? Are only children lonely? Is it so bad to have an only child or is this another myth we're just...

I feel guilty. I feel bad. But I also feel angry. Yet I can't express this anger...because then I'm a nag...But I'm tired of feeling like a nag, a bitch, an over-worried, exhausted, woman. It took the birth of my children to stop, think and pick apart what was happening. What's real guilt? What's perceived guilt? What's guilt that created by society and put women in this constant state of tension and rage. I speak with Saumya Dave, psychologist and author of the upcoming novel 'The Guilt Pill...

Dating is hard. Marriage is hard. Should women freeze their eggs? Or should they settle for less? Or should they forget men all together? The question is now: Is something wrong with men? We can theorize all we want, or we can talk to the source. Cue: your typical New York single guy in his thirties. I interview a man. A single man in his thirties and ask him why he's single. What he wants. What men want. Then I talk to more women. And this is what I realized.... This episode started as...

You're single and you're in your thirties. All your friends are married and having kids and you can't find a good match on Hinge. Is something wrong with you?...Or is something wrong with men? Or is something wrong with dating? I ask my best friend, the godmother of my children, who asked me to do an episode on dating, the apps, the lack of available good men out there and what resulted was an honest, raw, candid conversation on men, women, tall girls, dating, marriage and what it all means.&...

It's the hardest job in the world...and the most judged. Is there a stigma to the stay-at-home-mom? Do they feel it? What do they say when people ask what they do? I will admit, I used to judge them. Then... I admired them. Now, I just want to understand them. What's it really like for stay-at-home moms? I talk to three of them in the middle of their days. Not just about what they're doing...how they're feeling. Are they happy? Are they fulfilled? The answers are not as cut and dry as anyone ...

I could never be a stay-at-home mom. But I also can't go back to the corporate life I had. I want to be home for the kids, but I don't want to actually be home with them all day. Once again, a woman must make a life-changing decision. Stay at home or work full-time. There is a middle ground. But how middle is it really? That's where I am. This middle place. Working/writing "Part Time" and feeling the unfair burden of the children and the resentment that comes with it. Which led me to th...

After having my first baby, I was pissed. I mean, I was exhausted, overjoyed, overwhelmed but mostly, pissed. I felt like I'd been conned into motherhood. Like no one actually told me what it was really like. Whether they forgot the pain or didn't want to scare me out of it, I felt like no warned me about what it's actually like...what really happens when you make that irreversible choice to have children. What does it actually mean to become a mother? What happens to women when t...

Is my marriage in trouble or is this normal? Is this part of the experience of having kids? Or am I headed towards the D-word? From Words of Women, Lauren Martin engages her community of women to find out. Six interviews of six women along with a couple's counselor to hear their unique stories of divorce: how they knew they needed one, what the signs were, what it was like. Everything you've always wondered about divorce, marriage and all the mess in between.