Trish Bentley
Trish Bentley Is The Unapologetic Parent on The Huffington Post
Trish Bentley, editor of The Purple Fig, contributor for The Huffington Post, has a new column, Unapologetic Parent: Informative and...
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Believe What People Tell You
New Year’s resolution posts are a standard issue right now. Tiz the season to want to become healthier, smarter, more productive and...
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Modern Mothers Aren’t Drinking Anymore Than Generations Before Us So Why Are We Judged Like It
Today, there are many books, memes and blog posts dedicated to this idea that wine (or any other alcoholic beverage for that matter) is...
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We Are All Ordinary People In Extraordinary Times
For the first time since forever, the sun is shining and warm on our faces. There’s a lull in hostilities and my girls are playing well...
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Write Because You Love It.
When I was in school I endured many writing workshops (public mental beatings) where I had to showcase my work and listen to what each of...
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May is Melanoma Awareness Month: #newfamilyrule Putting Sunscreen On Our Kids
One bad sunburn before the age of 18 doubles your chances of getting melanoma – the most serious and often fatal form of skin cancer....
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I Will Try Not To Nag My Husband…For the Umpteenth Thousandth Time
It happens. You flip the switch and there’s a sudden bright flash of light, and then darkness. It’s your cue to change the light bulb. My...
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International Women’s Day: What It Means To Me To Be A Women
Recently, as we sat around the dinner table and looked back on our day, my three year old son told us about how upset he had been. “What...
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Losing It Less and Choosing Happiness More
One day, after the fourteenth emotional breakdown from one of my two young boys, I found myself preaching the idea of happiness being a...
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TPF Must Read: Celebrating Amanda Lindhout’s Courage and Spirit
Recently, while reading A House In The Sky by Amanda Lindhout, I found myself so totally and completely captivated by her prose that I...
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How Being Thrown in the Deep End Changed Cynthia Loyst’s Life
It’s hard to believe anyone as beautiful, confident and ambitious as Cynthia Loyst, co-host of the popular TV show The Social (alongside...
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Mothers Against Judgement: Don’t Feel Bad If You Don’t Breastfeed
There is something that comes along with becoming a mother that is much less obvious than the lack of sleep, post-baby muffin top, and...
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Finding a Balance Between 70s Parenting and Modern Meddling
If you are a parent, you know the complete powerlessness within parenthood that exists between peeing on a stick and the day you die....
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Letter to my Older Self
My grandma set the bar for me on how the elderly should roll. I’m only realizing now that she was truly one of a kind. I thought that all...
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Note From Trish: The Meaning of Christmas
Suddenly this year every time a commercial for anything toy-related comes on, I hear: “I want that. I want that from Santa!” My son is...
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Note from Trish: Marriage Trumps Wedding
One day, when I was planning my wedding, a friend in the office said, “You will see one day that the wedding means nothing compared to...
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Note from Trish: It’s Never Too Late
When Ann sent me her draft for the piece It Ain’t Over ‘Till You’re Dead I got that wonderful feeling of knowing that I’m not alone. It’s...
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Note From Trish: It’s a Long Life
So this past week my family and I went to Palm Springs to visit my dad and his wife who currently spend the winters there. We spent...
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How Do People Stay Married for Fifty Years?
I often see an older couple walking hand in hand up and down the strip near my house. They saunter slowly next to one another,...
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Extraordinary Women
I come out of my doctor’s office after having been told that “I need to have babies now if I want them (…) that if I wait any longer, it...
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