My First Grader Came Home with Four Pages of Homework and It Broke My Heart
My heart . . . Second day of 1st grade and he came home with four pages of homework .…
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By Skyler Dusenbery Girls Trips Are Great, but It’s Hard to Leave Your Babies
Getting away as a mama is funny, isn’t it? The week leading up to your getaway is approximately 30 million…
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By Leslie M. Bosserman The Way Home
It was a spring of superbloom across California. After years of drought, wildflower seeds that lay dormant finally covered the…
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Tag, You’re Always It: 10 Struggles of Single Motherhood
It takes a village to raise a family. For a single mom, the reason she is without a village is irrelevant—the…
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I Cried the Day I Dropped Her Off at Daycare and I Cried the Day We Left
I cried the day I dropped her off. My heart was heavy as a first-time mom. She was our miracle—the…
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By Dr. Emily Guarnotta When Grief and Postpartum Collide
“It’s brain cancer.” The words reverberated through the phone. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I was three months…
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I Raised My Kids, Now I Love Watching Them Raise Theirs
I already raised my kids. I already had the endless days, the sleepless nights, the tantrums, and the training. I…
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By Laura Childers My Teen Is Ready to Move Out and I Have to Let Him Go
Kids grow up and move out. But while some people might look forward to an empty nest, I am not…
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By Marissa Benners Toxic Favoritism Is Grown Up Bullying
It may have happened two decades ago, but I recall in vivid detail the day my best friend decided to…
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By Jenny Albers No One Really Prepares You for Parenting a Teenager
Sometime during my first pregnancy, my doctor handed me a folder containing a wealth of information. In it was a…
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By Brianna Baranowski Starting Over in Your Career? You’ve Got This.
I don’t regret a single step that led me further from my career and closer to my family. Did I…
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I’m Here. I See You. Let Go.
The sounds of laughter thundered down upon my shoulders, bouncing off the walls of the enclosed playground inside a local…
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