Are you searching ‘Black pediatrician near me’ in Atlanta? | Honeycomb Moms | Credit: Ian Schneider / Unsplash I was nine months pregnant when I realized I hadn’t nailed down a pediatrician for my baby yet. I knew I would be having a boy, so I wanted to find a Black male doctor my son might be able to relate to. I started to notice I had quite the number to pick from in Atlanta. It’s a unique and beautiful problem to have. Oh, how I wanted to apply the time-honored eeny-meeny-miny-moe method. Instead, I asked for recommendations. And because Jesus knows my heart, the very first recom ..read more

My son, Donovan, thoroughly enjoyed swinging from a zip line repeatedly at a friend's birthday party on April 15 in Atlanta. | Contributed photo I had the honor of attending one of the coolest birthday parties I’ve ever been to for a young child earlier this month. It was held in the backyard of a local educator who houses chickens and ducks. The backyard had a zipline and trampoline that occupied my oldest for whole hours. The adults lounged on picnic blankets and lawn chairs, and the children made mud pies, fed the chickens, went mock fishing with tin mason jar lids and magnetic fishing ro ..read more

My son, Donovan, loves playing on the floor and getting into everything. LAUREN FLOYD / INFO@HONEYCOMBMOMS.COM My biggest fear as a parent is that something will happen to my son that he can’t recover from. I think about who he would become if he were convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, if my husband or I died unexpectedly or if he were ever harmed as a result of racial profiling. My worries are just as endless as my desire to protect him, whether I’m alive or dead. I wrote this for my son. Dear Donovan, I love you. I will always love you. I will always try to protect you, and I will alwa ..read more

How to use Tailwind as a beginning blogger | Honeycomb Moms | Learn how to use the Tailwind app to perfect your Pinterest strategy. | Credit: Raw Pixel I know the Tailwind struggle all too well. It’s a popular social media scheduler for Pinterest, so it seems like every blogger under the sun is using it and boosting site traffic exponentially as a result. You figure let me sign up for this free trial before I dive right into a paid membership. It’s hard to know exactly which paid features you would need anyway without a little sampling. Just don’t waste your trial period hiding from the ap ..read more

How I became a mother | Honeycomb Moms | My husband Paul Washington and I spend our first moments with daughter Journey in the neonatal intensive care unit at the St. Luke’s East Hospital in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Honeycomb Moms is republishing this post, initially published on June 12, 2018 in honor of Black Maternal Health Week. Maternal mortality is still disproportionately affecting Black women, who are “three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women,” according to a recent news release from the White House.  Officials continued in the release: “Tackli ..read more

I have a 5-year-old son who while I love deeply, has been driving me to my stash of Aldi’s budget wines at least once a week lately. He is brilliant, wildly curious and outspoken, but his inclination to negotiate even the simplest of asks and his toddler-style fallouts when I refuse to engage have been testing my patience SAT style. And I fail often. So when a friend suggested a virtual parenting class held by Georgia State University, I jumped at the opportunity. It was a four-week parent academy on positive behavioral supports that met once a week for two hours. And after completing the cla ..read more

Suni and I went on a special Mother's Day road trip with her grandma and brother in 2022. This is us at Sweet Potatoes Kitchen in Savannah, Georgia. | MICHELLE BRELAND Having a daughter has been a treasure like no other. My sweet Suni is so much like me in some ways and so beautifully unlike me in others. I have to say the person she most often reminds me of is my late grandma Sue, who Suni was named in honor of. She is my wild one, and I love her. Dear Suni, You have been a joy to be around since the moment you were born. You lifted your little head above my shoulder to look around instinct ..read more

A friend of mine submitted this sunset photo from a trip to Blue Ridge, Georgia. | LAUREN OWENS When it comes to finding the time to evaluate what you want, nothing quite gets the job done like getting the rug pulled from under you. I mean, snatched from under you—teacup flying in the air, chair tumbled over, barely having time to catch the cell phone you’ve been desperately clutching most of the day. For me, the rug was pulled quite unexpectedly. I was fired from my job as a Senior Staff Writer the day before Thanksgiving after having worked for my former employer for three years. I had not ..read more

The whole Floyd clan took family photos. It's a once-in-four-year event. | Credit: Gigi My husband and I spent months–and in all honesty, more like years–researching schools for my son and daughter to attend. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: It’s not an easy decision, particularly if you’re a person of color. I’ve always envisioned my children going somewhere where their Blackness is celebrated. Problem is, the schools with the cherished high test scores in metro Atlanta seldom have more than a speckling of Black students, highly-competitive charter schools being the exceptions. I ..read more

My son, Donovan, discovered a new love, blowing dandelions, at the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance's O-STEAM Fest last Friday. | LAUREN FLOYD | INFO@HONEYCOMBMOMS.COM I can’t even pretend to count the number of hours I’ve spent trying to find summer programming within a 15-minute drive of southwest Atlanta, but it probably amounts to days not hours. Metro Atlanta actually boasts an abundance of programming options, many of which are highlighted on the website of Atlanta Parent Magazine. But if you’re looking for affordable options on Atlanta’s southside for children who are 5-years-old or yo ..read more