Angela Williams Glenn, Author at Her View From Home

Your Kids Look For You on the Sidelines—Do Everything You Can to Be There

Kids, Motherhood
September 6, 2023
3.6K Views
5 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

Your Kids Look For You on the Sidelines—Do Everything You Can to Be There

After putting in a full busy week, with countless other parents, we flocked to the sidelines to cheer our little…

I Knew You’d Grow Up, But I Underestimated How Hard It Would Be to Let Go

Grown Children, Motherhood, Teen
August 19, 2023
1.8K Views
3 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

I Knew You’d Grow Up, But I Underestimated How Hard It Would Be to Let Go

I thought five hit me hard. You were going off to kindergarten that year. Each day you became a little…

Motherhood, Teen, Tween
August 9, 2023
967 Views
4 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

When Your Kids Are No Longer Little

My kids are heading into middle school and high school in the fall. We are all in on the tween…

Parents Can Turn Youth Sports Toxic (but We Shouldn’t)

Motherhood
August 24, 2022
1.7K Views
4 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

Parents Can Turn Youth Sports Toxic (but We Shouldn’t)

I’ve loved youth sports and advocated for them since I was a youth athlete myself, so I was so excited…

Grief, Loss
July 23, 2022
1.6K Views
2 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

Have You Sat with the Dying?

Have you sat with the dying? Have you seen the loved ones who sit at their bedside night after night,…

We Didn’t Just Send Our Kids to Daycare, We Sent Them to a Second Home

Living, Motherhood
July 12, 2022
9.1K Views
4 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

We Didn’t Just Send Our Kids to Daycare, We Sent Them to a Second Home

I cried when I left my children’s daycare. And no, I don’t mean I cried when I dropped them off…

I Want My Kids to Know the Key to Success Isn’t Winning, It’s Trying Your Best

Kids, Living, Motherhood
April 27, 2022
969 Views
3 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

I Want My Kids to Know the Key to Success Isn’t Winning, It’s Trying Your Best

As I dropped my daughter off at yet another practice, I found myself questioning again—is it too much? On the…

She’s 13, and I Can Feel Her Slipping Through My Fingers

Motherhood, Teen, Tween
March 22, 2022
3.1K Views
4 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

She’s 13, and I Can Feel Her Slipping Through My Fingers

I feel like here, on the cusp of becoming a teenager, I can feel you slipping through my fingers as…

Baby, Kids, Motherhood
January 31, 2022
5K Views
4 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

When There Are No More Babies To Rock

I stare at that rocking chair. The arm and the legs are chewed up by one of the four dogs…

Kids, Motherhood
January 19, 2022
1.4K Views
3 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

I Hope They Remember the Good

Now—here in this chaotic madness of puberty, forming their own friendships, long days of ball practice after ball practice, long…

You’ll Never Regret Traveling With Your Kids

Kids, Living
August 3, 2021
1.8K Views
4 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

You’ll Never Regret Traveling With Your Kids

There is something about the open road, the endless possibilities that await out there, that calls some of us to…

When Your Days in Youth Sports Are Over, I’m Going To Miss it Too

Kids, Motherhood
May 11, 2021
31.7K Views
3 Minute Read

By Angela Williams Glenn

When Your Days in Youth Sports Are Over, I’m Going To Miss it Too

Each time I watch you take that field, I remind myself it’s not my game. It’s not my story. It’s…