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I’ll Be Your Mama Now and Forever

It is said that a mother carries her baby for much longer than nine months. I have done the same. I still carry you when you run and fall. I wipe…

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…

The other day my 11-year old daughter came up to me, her hair still dripping from her shower and her arms filled with a hair dryer and a flat iron.…

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…

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…

I was talking with a group of moms recently when we discussed which of our children, our boys or girls, were more difficult to raise. Everyone had…

Dear teenager of mine, there’s something you should know. I’m in it for the long haul. I’m not going to lie. The fact that you…

Dear Teenager: I know how you feel. You may think I do not. I am your mother—a relic from another time, one who does not understand your pain, your…

Dear daughter, Some people are just born smiling. Everyone else has to work at it. Learn how to take charge of your own happiness. No one can make…