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Parents Need to Be a United Front When it Comes to Raising Kids

July 30, 2018 by Melissa Chapman 20 Comments

Parents Need to Be a United Front When it Comes to Raising Kids

It took me 17 years but the longer I parent the more I have come to the conclusion that  Parents Need to Be a United Front When it Comes to Raising Kids. I'll admit it- I want to be the fun one. I want to be that parent I think my kids crave. Unfortunately when it comes to raising and disciplining my kids I am hungry for their approval, as my husband who could not be more my polar opposite, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Parenting Tips Tagged With: couples and relationships, Fathers and daughters, happiness with the opposite sex, keeping your marriage together, kids, Melissa Chapman, raising kids

Watching my husband give our son a hug-makes me fall in love with him all over again

October 27, 2016 by Melissa Chapman 6 Comments

I'll be honest when my kids ask me to pinpoint the first time they crawled, the first word they said, or any of their firsts I struggle to try and remember and I have *been known* to fudge the truth about my memory of their early years because well to be blunt...IT SUCKED. I remember nothing. I feel like their infancies are these huge periods of time where everything felt fuzzy. I was a miserable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, MMSG, My Sugar daddy Tagged With: couples and relationships, Fathers and daughters, Husbands and Wives, Keeping it together, kids, marriage, married my sugar daddy, Melissa Chapman, Mothers and daughters

The secret behind the Daddy Fun Factor

February 14, 2012 by Melissa Chapman 1 Comment

If you ask my kids, I'm sure they'd enthusiastically espouse the merits of hanging with their dad, as opposed to me. Of course, my husband wholeheartedly would echo their sentiments and insist that staying home with dad is infinitely more fun for kids than with mom because dads care less about the small stuff. My husband asserts the daddy fun factor can be attributed to the fact that men … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Daddy daycare, Differences betweens mothers and fathers, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and sons, Melissa Chapman, parenthood, the Staten Island Family

After a spouse dies the grieving process for the surviving one becomes a way of life

October 25, 2011 by Melissa Chapman 4 Comments

My father, the man who shared his every waking moment with my mother since she was the tender age of fifteen has been gone five months now and for my mother the grieving process becomes more difficult each and every day. Truthfully, my siblings and I haven't had much time to grieve; because as soon as my dad passed, we were thrust into this all encompassing role of caring for our mother … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MMSG, My Sugar daddy Tagged With: Fathers and daughters, grieving process after death of a spouse, Husbands and Wives, Losing a parent, married my sugar daddy, Melissa Chapman, the mourning process

I’m a member of a club I never wanted to join

May 16, 2011 by Melissa Chapman 24 Comments

We're currently sitting Shiva for my dad, the Jewish ritual week-long period of grief and mourning,  and while it's been a therapeutic way to deal with the grieving process    it's also brought home the fact that I've unwittingly become a member of a club I never wished or even conceived I'd have to join; those who lose a parent. And, it SUCKS. It literally sucks the oxygen out of your body. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MMSG, My Sugar daddy Tagged With: dealing with your parent's death, death, death of a father, Family, Fathers and daughters, losing your parents, married my sugar daddy, Melissa Chapman, mourning period, shiva

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