By Betsy Moore To My Bonus Daughters, I Love You Like My Own
To my daughter’s best friend who we have known and loved since preschool, I love you like my own. To…
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By Jen Schreiner God Is There for Middle School Mistakes
No one prepared me for the troubles of having two children going through middle school. I seemed to have forgotten…
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Kids Remember the Simple Things Done With Love
My tween boy said he wanted to decorate his room for Christmas. He said, “You know how you used to…
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The Proverbs 31 Woman for Teens
A girl with a noble character is hard to find. Her family can trust her. She sees things to be…
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By Elizabeth Dardes I Am Her Mother and Her Friend
The moment I realized my daughter was my friend was her first college drop-off. Her tears displayed her love and…
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The Room that Built Me
Before Pinterest, before social media, before anybody cared, my room during high school in the early 2000s was decorated with…
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By Debra Caffrey Connecting with My Teen Son Will Always Be Worth the Wait
So much of parenting teens is just waiting around, whether it's in the car picking them up, reading in waiting…
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By Jenny Albers Sometimes I Miss Her
“Hey Mom, can you straighten my hair?” she asks. I gladly oblige. Because it’s not often that she needs—or wants—my…
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By Mikala Albertson Adolescence Is Simply the Beginning of a Thousand Tiny Goodbyes
He’s gone. I’ve felt him being pulled away as if by a magnet for months. A year, maybe? The centrifugal…
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By Amy Keyes Hello From the Middle of the Middle Years
I am middle-aged. I honestly don’t know how or when I got here, but it’s legit. It’s not just in the…
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By Claudia Caramiello In This Season of Un-Needing
In the cold blue winter light, I would nurse my son, his mouth small like a sparrow, his breath warm…
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By Della Cassia I Blinked and the Little Girl Was Gone
They told me not to blink, but I was too overwhelmed learning how to become a mother. They told me…
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