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Grown Children, Kids, Teen
September 16, 2019
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Parents, We’ve Created “The Loneliest Generation”—Here’s What We Need To Do About it Now

This post originally appeared on the author’s Facebook page. Having had no fewer than 12 students (male and female) sob in my office in the…

Grown Children, Living
September 8, 2019
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Thanks For Everything, Grandma and Grandpa

Grandma and Grandpa, Thanks for showing me what it means to be committed in marriage. You stuck together through the thick and thin; 60+ years is no…

Grief, Grown Children, Motherhood
September 7, 2019
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Dear Young Mom, I Wish I Was You Again

Dear young mama, First, let me apologize. I am guilty of saying “enjoy every minute” and “they’ll be grown before you know it”. I have…

Grown Children
August 26, 2019
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Thank You For the Good Years, Mom

Dearest mom, I have always and will always love you, but we can’t stay in our relationship. After years of trying to blend our differences, it’s…

Grown Children, Kids, Motherhood
August 25, 2019
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To the Parents Saying Goodbye

I’m awake. It’s 4 a.m. Just 45 minutes ago, I heard the garage door open and close for the last time at this ungodly hour. I ran downstairs to…

Grown Children, Motherhood
August 18, 2019
758 Views
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I’m a Grown-Boy Mom Now

I have an adult child. My oldest son walked across the stage a few months ago and received his high school diploma. I have practiced saying this to…

Grown Children, Kids
August 16, 2019
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Here’s What I Know About Parenting, There’s Never Enough Time

When you first have children they talk about the challenges of parenting, the struggles of a baby waking in the night, the toddler who won’t stay…

Grown Children, Motherhood
August 10, 2019
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Better Late Than Never: An Apology to My Mother

Dear Mom, I didn’t begin to understand the unrealistic impossible expectations I put on you. I would easily forgive Dad’s transgressions. He…

Grown Children, Motherhood, Teen
July 22, 2019
445 Views
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I Just Left a Piece of My Heart in a College Dorm

I saw Hoda Kotb today in New York about to start her third hour of The Today Show. I waved through the glass and she waved back! It was raining, but…

Grown Children, Motherhood
July 19, 2019
439 Views
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I’ll Hold My Mother’s Hands as Long as I Can

These are the hands that held me as I took my first breaths. The hands that fed me and changed my diapers and rocked me to sleep at night. The hands…

Grown Children

Parents, We’ve Created “The Loneliest Generation”—Here’s What We Need To Do About it Now

Thanks For Everything, Grandma and Grandpa

Dear Young Mom, I Wish I Was You Again

Thank You For the Good Years, Mom

To the Parents Saying Goodbye

I’m a Grown-Boy Mom Now

Here’s What I Know About Parenting, There’s Never Enough Time

Better Late Than Never: An Apology to My Mother

I Just Left a Piece of My Heart in a College Dorm

I’ll Hold My Mother’s Hands as Long as I Can

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