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The Kids Get Bigger and Motherhood Only Gets Better

My daughter is 12 and almost as tall as I am. Tonight, she put her head on my shoulder when she hugged me. I said, “This is better than when…

Dear daughter, I’m writing this far in advance of the day you will start dating, but I’m preparing myself for the inevitable. I cannot keep you…

When I was involved in extracurricular activities, I would often look in the crowd for my parents and find that they weren’t there. I would search…

To the mother whispering through gritted teeth to her teenage daughter in the checkout line at Costco . . . To the father up at two in the…

My daughter turned 16 recently. It was a big one. THE big one. We spent months planning the long-dreamed-for “Sweet 16” party, and…

This week, my husband is traveling, which leaves me home with the kids. In my house, that means a revolving door of neighborhood pals and school…

I’ve truly enjoyed raising my kids. Sure, it’s been exhausting—the laundry, the cooking meals, the shuttling to all the…

Three men live in my house now. Once there was just one man and two rowdy little boys, but one day I woke up and realized my little boys had turned…

Dear daughter, I need to apologize. I did something to you the other day that I’ve tried to teach you over and over and over again not to…

Dear daughter at 14, It seems impossible that you are 14 years old. How did we get here so fast? Often, I wonder when I held you on my hip for the…