Here are your top Mom Group links to send you off into the weekend.

I was at dinner the other night with a wonderful group of women -- many of whom I was meeting for the first time -- many of us from different stages of motherhood, different ages, and different parts of the world.

Before there were apps to track your baby’s feeding, nursing, and sleep sessions – there were good, old fashioned notebooks.

A little Meryl for your Monday. The Great One once said, “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

When it comes to teaching my kids life lessons, I’m pretty sure I’m doing it a bit differently than the quotes on Instagram say I should.

Oh, shit, here it comes: Another one in your inbox. A good friend has a baby, and their well-meaning partner has the nerve to send a breathlessly typed missive straight from the hospital . . .

Most parents bemoan their inability to unglue themselves from their smartphones. I am pretty sure my children will remember me stalking the house with my fist clenched around a canister of Clorox wipes. 

In my mostly privileged, picturesque Brooklyn neighborhood, the mothers – much like the historic brownstones and tree-lined sidewalks – are very well-maintained.

It sucks to be silenced. I recently had a piece published by a well-known publication in the motherhood sphere. A few days later, without any warning, my writing was removed due to “too much backlash” against the piece.