By Shanna Walker You’ll Be a Teenager Soon, But Today You’re Still My Baby
“I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without…
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By Eva Des Lauriers He Grows Up a Little More Every Day and I’m Trying To Keep Calm
It started with a backpack. Christmas morning his eyes grew wide and bright as he pulled this, his first backpack,…
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By Deborah O'Ferry This Is the Part of Growing Up I Didn’t See Coming
I remember when I was 20, while drenched in absolute ignorance, and the slew of twenty-first parties began. Some weekends…
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By Emily Scott Why I Want My Kids To Make Mistakes
Our two oldest kids are like night and day. Sometimes I wonder how they can be related. Child #1 is…
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By Brea Schmidt To My Last Baby, Please Don’t Grow Up Too Fast
To know these pigtails is to know the sassiness they represent. Underneath those two personality sticks is YOU . .…
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By Shelby Spear Struggling in the Space Between Mothering and Letting Go
Her size XL t-shirt hung six inches below her tush, swallowing up her 5’ 2” frame. “I’m going out back…
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By Karen Johnson Why I Loved Being a Teen in the 90s
I graduated from high school in 1998, which means I am about the same age as Justin Timberlake and Britney…
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By Laura Hurd An Open Letter To The Tide Pod Eating Generation: You’re Not Stupid
If you scroll on Facebook for any length of time, one would quickly discover how our nation feels about your…
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By Lisa Leshaw A Conversation With a Daughter Who Met the Man of Her Dreams
"Your father is falling apart. It's not a medical condition, rather a predicament of the heart. You called to announce…
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By Gina Rich I May Be Grown Up, But Sometimes I Glimpse The Girl I Was
In 1985, I am six years old and have a raging case of chickenpox. My dad decides to document my…
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By Shannon Pannell Sweet Child, This World May Not Be Kind—But I’m Always Here For You
My dearest sons, Mommy can’t. I love you with everything I am. But I can’t. I can’t promise you…
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By Heather Duckworth This is 11
I watch her as she sits on the back porch, laughing with her friends. She pushes her long, dark hair…
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