Baby · a short read
Worried about your baby at 2 a.m.
Before You Spiral
For the 2 a.m. worry about your baby: not what it is, but which door it goes through, and the words for the call.
Dear Momma,
You did everything they told you to.
So why does the house still feel like it runs you?
You didn’t skip a step. You were handed the warm half of the job, and the half where you’re allowed to lead got left out. Dear Momma World™ hands it back: books for raising babies, kids and teens, and support for the Momma doing the raising.
Kind and firm, Momma. You’re allowed to lead.
Kind and firm
Firm about the parenting.
Tender toward you.
We never soften the truth about what children need: structure, boundaries, consequences, the freedom to struggle. And we never shame the woman holding the line. You were handed the warm half of the job. These books hand you the other half.
A script for the child, and a spine for the mother.
Read what we believe →A taste of the house
Start here, on us.
One short read for each stage, written for the moment that brought you here. Read it tonight. It’s yours to keep, from us to you.
Kids · a short read
When every single thing has become a fight
Why Is Everything a Battle?
For the shoes, the park, the screen and the car seat: one three-second move that takes the fight out of more of them than you’d expect.
Teens · a short read
When the kid you knew suddenly feels like a stranger
Your Teenage Stranger
For the night you looked across the dinner table and wondered who this is: you don’t have to read them to lead them.
Calm is a weather report.
Steady is a decision.
from Dear Momma Kids
From the first night to the last year at home
The baby who won’t settle becomes the four-year-old on the store floor, then the teenager behind the closed door. The job changes shape. You stay the one they need.
Find your stage
Where are you right now?
Each stage has its own room: letters to read, a short read to start with, and the books that go deeper.
The first eighteen months
Baby
Everything is new and everyone has advice, and you’re learning to lead a very small person while finding your own footing.
Explore Baby →
The Twos to the edge of the teens
Kids
The bedtimes, the storms, the sibling wars and the battle over shoes, and you’re allowed to lead through all of it, warmly.
Explore Kids →
Eleven to eighteen
Teens
The door closes and the phone lights up, and you keep leading while you hand over the keys, one at a time.
Explore Teens →Letters from Momma
Something to read tonight.
Short pieces for the questions you’re asking at 9 p.m. Each one takes a few minutes to read, and you can use it tonight.
Baby · a letter
Nobody is coming to tell me I’m doing this right
Why the first months feel like an exam with no answer key, and the one small decision that gives you back a surprising amount of yourself.
Read the letterKids · a letter
Why does bedtime take an hour?
Because, night by night, it’s started paying out. Here’s how a twenty-minute bedtime turns into ninety, and three moves for tonight.
Read the letterTeens · a letter
How much freedom is too much?
Not an age, a pace. The three jobs you’ll hold between eleven and eighteen, how to hand over a key on purpose, and the few that never hand over.
Read the letterAnd for you
Wanting your evening is not wanting less of your child.
Everything we make has a place for the woman doing the raising: what sets you off, how to come back, and what’s still yours.
The Library
The whole shelf, in one place.
Every complete book, every Guide, the short reads and the collections, for when you know what you’re looking for, or want to see it all.
Browse the Library“The two hands were never in conflict. The firm one holds the shape of the home. The kind one holds the people in it, including you.”
— Momma