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There Will Always Be Room For You At Home

First, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for all the tears. I didn’t know how soon they’d start but they’ve already begun rolling…

I grew up in a small town and I still live outside that small town. My high school was not huge, so everyone knew everybody. Everyone knew almost…

A few months ago at church, two friends asked me how it was going with my daughter, and I didn’t know how to respond. They both had teenage…

I expected the sighs and the eye-rolls and the closed bedroom doors. After all, I was a teenager once, too, and I remember how I treated my parents.…

This is 15. 15 is early mornings at school and late-night studying. 15 is sleeping in any chance she gets and waking up at the last possible second.…

Of all the people on your holiday list, a tween/teen boy could be the hardest. These young men are still young at heart but often have…

Being irrelevant to my teenager daughter sounds amusing and inconsequential. Becoming irrelevant is different. It’s heartbreaking. The…

Each school night, somewhere between 8:30 and 9 pm, my three teenagers begrudgingly leave their phones on what I lovingly refer to as my containment…

I slept on my teenage daughter’s bedroom floor last night. It wasn’t a slumber party. It was just all I could do. She’d gone to bed…

Behold the 14-year-old. Starting to spread her wings. Starting to turn her gaze outward from the walls of this house onto the great big world.…

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