By Leslie Deane-Mountjoy Dear Estranged In-Laws: You Are Missing Out on so Much
To my estranged in-laws, It’s the middle of the night and I can’t sleep. For whatever reason, I have woken…
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By Whitney Fleming I’m in the Sandwich Generation—and I’m Exhausted
"Maybe you can do it after soccer season?" I actually said these words out loud. To my mom. About her…
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By Melissa Fenton She Thought He Was an Uber Driver, But He Was a Killer: Why Teens and Parents Need to Be Vigilant
Last weekend, 21-year-old University of South Carolina student Samantha Josephson called for an Uber after leaving the popular college’s Five…
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By Stephanie Freybler To the Stepparents Who Love Their Bonus Kids So Well—Thank You
Last summer, I was trying to back up our lawn tractor with a trailer on it. If you've ever tried…
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By Teresa Martin I Thank God Every Day For the Gift of Being a Grandma
When I was raising my children, my life was always a burst of activity. I had a full-time job, and…
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By Erin Wood Thank You, Mom and Dad, For Everything
Thank you, Mom, for making the sacrifice to bring me into this world. Pregnancy and labor are long and unbearable…
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By Jenny Rapson This Gillette Ad Shows Boys How Real Men Behave
Sing it with me now, kids of the 80s and 90s, "Gillette! The best a man can geeeeet!" It's a…
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Best Dad Ever Books Six Flights So He Can Spend Christmas With His Flight Attendant Daughter
I always feel so sad for folks who have to work on Christmas, but usually I'm thinking about medical professionals…
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A “Do Nothing Christmas” is All Your Kids Need
I have a friend who also has four sons. Hers are a few years younger than mine (I have two…
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By Jodie Utter Battling the Sting of Toxic Relatives: Why Our Kids Need Us to Show Them How
In dealing with our difficult relatives, the troublemaker kind who seem to blight most family trees, my husband and I…
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By Amanda Motisi Dear Mom, I Still Need You
Dear Mom, After we welcomed my first baby—my daughter, your first grandchild—into the world, I was so overwhelmed with sudden…
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By Catherine Gentry The Mental Load of Mothering a Teen
“Kids are messy.” I remember my mother telling me that, long ago when I was pregnant with my first daughter, and…
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