By Jessica Swanda I Don’t Want to Spend Today Worrying How Much I’ll Miss Him Tomorrow
Dear toddler, Everyone tells me the days are long, but the years are short. They tell me I’ll turn around…
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I’ll Always Be the One Who Loved Them First
I’m no longer the last person he says goodnight to. That’s a hard pill to swallow. Here we are, just…
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By Krystal Sieben Six Feels So Much Bigger
Six . . . Six is only one number more than five, one grade, one year . . . but it…
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I’ll Make Time for My Tweens as Long as They Need Me
I’m at this stage of parenting. You know, the one when I hardly catch their faces in photos anymore but…
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By Tara Munjee Mothering Grown Children Has Made Me a Quieter Mom
How do I best mother my 22- and 27-year-old sons? Naturally, I will always be their mother; it’s a lifelong…
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By Caitlin Q. Bailey O'Neill ‘Twas the Night Before Kindergarten
'Twas the night before kindergarten and all through the house, He slept while I cried, voice squeaking like a mouse.…
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What Your Mother Wants You to Know as You Begin High School
Dear high school freshmen, As you walk into high school on the first day of school, I want you to…
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By Angela Williams Glenn I Knew You’d Grow Up, But I Underestimated How Hard It Would Be to Let Go
I thought five hit me hard. You were going off to kindergarten that year. Each day you became a little…
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Today I Said Goodbye To the Only Version of You I’ve Ever Known
It is my first time saying goodbye. Today brought conflicting emotions to the surface like a rising tide as it…
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When Your Kids Are No Longer Little
My kids are heading into middle school and high school in the fall. We are all in on the tween…
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Am I Holding On Because It’s Too Hard to Let Go?
A few years ago, I let go of our Mr. Potato Head collection. I asked my boys to play one…
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By Sarah Lewis Even by Her Deathbed, I Question If I Was Enough for My Mother
The beeping of the machine yelling to the nurses about the occluded IV snaps my mind back to the present.…
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