All Kinds of Families My hope is that this group becomes a melting pot made up of lenses with stories and information about many types of families.
Adoptive Families, Step Families, Single Parent Families, Inter-racial Families, Inter-faith Families, Multi-Lingual Families, GLBT Parent Families, Only Child Families, Raising all girls, Raising all boys, Widely spaced siblings, Closely spaced siblings, Large Families and Childfree.
Atheist, Agnostic, Pagan, Buddhist, Catholic, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Latter-day Saints, Muslim and Unitarian Universalist Families. Homeschooling, Stay at home and Working parents. Attachment parenting, Holistic, and Vegetarian Families. Young or older parents. Families dealing with a disability or illness. Military Families and Expat Families. Have I missed yours? Let me know and I'll add it. :)
All families are welcome!

Welcome to the group!

Every child is asked to draw a picture of their family at some point in school. How boring would it be if everyone's picture was the same? Everyone's family is unique and just right for them.

I enjoy discussing all of the many kinds of families with my daughter. I want her to grow to love and appreciate hers and understand that it's ok for our family to be unlike those of her friends. Because really, each is different from the next and special in their own right.

I would love to hear about your family and what makes it unique!

Important Notes:

* Please do not submit a lens that is only a list of websites or a sales pitch. This group is for lenses with lots of 'from the heart' written content about your family.

* This group is not a place for debate, therefore will not accept HeyMonkeyBrain lenses.

Family Sizes

featured lens Only Children

I'm an only child with an only child of my own by choice. When I close my eyes and imagine the perfect family size this is it. When I was in college I started a yahoo club (they were clubs back then) for onlies. That's been abandoned for a while but I...

featured lens Raisin' Hellions - The Joys of Raising Boys

Let me say, first off, that it has been an honor and an adventure raising boys. My two guys, now teens, come first – always have, always will.   Raising boys is different. Seriously. How many little girls stuff their socks between the couch...

featured lens Living Large- Raising A Big Family

People often describe me as "Wonder Woman" or "Super Mom", when most days it's probably closer to "Crazy Woman" and "Super Tweaker". I already know what you're thinking. You're right, it's NOT as...

featured lens How to Survive being a Single Dad

I've been mulling around the concept for a blog/lens on parenting, from the perspective of a single dad, for quiet awhile and in fact I did create a blog called The Single Dad where I post the information I have posted here. I've found that...

featured lens Purple Women Give Back

Hey, glad you found us at Squidoo! Here you have a chance to participate in a broader community of people online who are interested in the topic of childfree. This is a sister site to the team blog and our chariable effort. You can help by recommendi...

Alternative Families

featured lens Adults With LGBT Parents

There are lots of us adults with LGBT parents floating around in the world.  It's hard for us to find a place to fit in.  Those of us who are straight don't quite fit into the straight world and we identify as part of the LGBT community, ev...

featured lens Loving, Alternative Families - Lesbian & Gay Parenting

Many criticize the changing family structure in today's society and condemn those families who do not play by their "one mom married to one dad" rules.  I have created this lens to lend support to all families - especially those who fi...

featured lens Gay Parents and LGBT Families

According to the 2000 U.S. Census, approximately 600,000 same-sex couples live in the United States and more than a third of these have at least one child. Of those LGBT parents, about half have two or more children. That means there are approximatel...

Adoption

featured lens A Guide To Adoption

This place is sponsored by Forever Parents, a supporting community for adoptive & waiting parents since 2002. Adoption Blog Adoption Forums Adopting a child can be a joyful and sometimes scary experience. There are several different ways to adopt a...

featured lens Forever Family A Korean Adoption Story

  I would like to tell you all our family's adoption story. My niece and her husband adopted 2 beautiful children from South Korea. They have a 4 year old son and a 2 1/2 year old daughter. When all the fertility treatments failed including a cou...

featured lens Adoption Stories and other adoption links

A few months ago I started writing my adoption story on a blog I call Ana's Miracle. Since then I've started poking around the web to find some other adoption stories and there are quite a few out there. However I couldn't really find a a place for...

Cultures

featured lens What Matters to You? Family Matters for Tween Parenting & Blended Families

If you answered, "Family Matters!" you've arrived at the right place. While I'll address many family issues, my lens will focus on tweens and step-parenting. I will be adding more articles and resources -- If there's a topic you'd...

featured lens Naming Multicultural Babies

My wife and I recently had our first baby.  My wife is Taiwanese and I am American.  We are currently living in Taiwan.  The baby was born in Taiwan and may spend a significant time of his childhood here.  Eventually, however, we...

Family Members

featured lens Blanche Singer--My Grandmother and a True Hero

My grandmother, Blanche Singer, was a true matriarch and leader of our family. I miss her every day and think about her often. Her fierce belief in family has shaped the way our family from immediate to third and fourth cousins think about family tod...

Ages and Stages

featured lens Surviving and Thriving With A Teenager In Your Life

I Will Not Only Survive But Thrive My efforts to lead a rich, full life as a single parent have resulted in my studying and learning as much as I possibly can about parenting and successful parents. My intention is to share some of that insight with...

Learning Styles

featured lens Homeschool Happenings

Looking for help in your homeschooling adventure? Then look no further. As a veteran homeschool mom of 7 with over 20 years experience homeschooling I can help. I will be sharing fun activities, advice to get you going and practical resources, such as...

featured lens Charlotte Mason Home Schooling

Charlotte Mason (1841-1923) was a British author and educator who began what is now the modern home school movement during the 1880's. She was appalled by the poor education of the middle class by governesses with little or no training...

featured lens Pagan Homeschooling

This is where you can learn how to homeschool your child as a Pagan.  I will be reviewing websites, books, movies, and much more.  Homeschooling is a growing community, and so is Paganism, now there is more and more every day for the Pagan...

featured lens A Guide To Unschooling

Unschooling (a term coined by John Holt) differs from other forms of homeschooling in that it's not directed by a teacher or a curriculum.  Parents who unschool their children provide a wide range of resources ...

featured lens The Law of Attraction

Learn how to use the Law of Attraction in your homeschool and how to teach your children about the Law of Attraction.

Special Concerns

featured lens Nutrition & Autism

In May 2000, I took my youngest son, Benjamin, to the doctor to have his hearing tested. I suspected that he may have some type of hearing loss, because he was not developing as well verbally or socially as his older siblings did when...

featured lens Raising a Child with a Cleft Lip and Palate

Finding out that your child is going to be born with a cleft lip or palate is not the end of the world. We were very surprised when we found out that our youngest child has a bilateral cleft and palate. A child with a cleft lip or cleft palate is no...

featured lens Cochlear Implant - An Emotional Journey: How my Son got to Hear

A cochlear implant (CI) is a system of internal and external devices that analyze and digitize sound into signals, stimulating auditory nerves in the cochlea and sending the results to the brain for interpretation. First developed in the early 1980s,...

Family Life

featured lens I'm young, single and a mommy... SO WHAT!?

There are a lot of people in the world that are still stuck in the old days... Everywhere I go, I run into at least one person that looks at me crazy when they see me with my two daughters. I'm not married, I'm 24 and yes I am a mommy and guess wha...

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Group Discussion

GregGiordano

You have some excellent perspectives on the importance of families. Thank you for the lens.

Posted October 07, 2008
The_Homeopath

What an awesome group of lenses here! My family is a religiously blended one, but I haven't actually written a lens about it, maybe I should before people start to wonder why in the world I have both Roman Catholic and Chanukah lenses! LOL

Posted September 04, 2008
tashad17

You have a great lens and I would love to have you check out mine. Take care and God Bless!

Posted May 12, 2008
dkland

Great lens! Thanks for making it.

Posted May 11, 2008
PaulRushing

Just added one of my lenses. It made LOTD and has inspired me to create more on this subject. I hope it is a good addition to the group here.

Paul

Posted May 06, 2008
 
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