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 Claudia Caramiello 18 Will Break Your Heart
18 will hug you . . . if you ask. 18 will send you funny TikToks. 18 will not make…
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6,570 Days
Dear Mom, Six thousand, five hundred and seventy days. It's hard to believe I've lived for 6,570 days, and now…
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By Jenny Albers Eighteen Years Doesn’t Feel Like Enough
I remember the exact moment it hit me. My newborn daughter, swaddled in a receiving blanket, was cradled in my…
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18 Years Went by In a Flash
If I close my eyes, I can conjure the feather-light weight of my newborn daughter. At under five pounds, my…
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By Michelle Hurst They Leave Us in Little Pieces Long before 18
Recently, someone asked me as the mom of a senior about to graduate, “How are you preparing to let go?”…
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By Melissa Neeb You’re Going Off To College and I’m Trying To Let Go
I still smell my son’s head. He is 18 and witty and a homebody and his hair always smells like, well,…
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