By Carolyn Moore “Your Son Growing Up Will Feel Like the Slowest Breakup You’ve Ever Known” Aches in Every Mother’s Heart
"Why do they look so tall all of a sudden?" I asked my friend as we trailed her twin 8-year-old…
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By Tracy Gerhardt-Cooper Seeing My Grown Daughter Happy Fills My Heart With Joy
Joy, frustration, pride, worry, heartbreak—they all play a role in the drama that is motherhood. Unbelievably, I’ve been acting out…
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By Brittany Heaward If Your Kids and Your Parents Depend On You, You Might Be in the Sandwich Generation
I see you, I do. Trying to balance everything on those shoulders. You carry it so well. No one would…
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By Kathy Wetsell God Can Mold the Anxious Child Into a Confident Adult
As I write this, my firstborn is 5,633 miles away in Taormina, Sicily. This is the farthest she has ever…
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By Beth Tate We Couldn’t Be More Different, But My Mom and I Love Each Other Fiercely
She's an introvert. I'm an extrovert. She has an angelic singing voice. Dogs run when I sing. She loves eggplant.…
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By Kaitlin Chappell Rogers Cherish Your Siblings if You’re Lucky Enough To Have Them
Being a sibling is a strange thing. You are born into a family you don’t choose with brothers or sisters…
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By Lauren Dykovitz I Worry About My Mom’s Death Every Day
I started writing my mom’s eulogy the other day. Not on paper, but in my head. Nothing has happened. Nothing…
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By Rachel Gossen All of a Sudden I’m Mothering Men
I was up before the sun again. It is creeping up slower now, as the month is drawing to another…
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By Stephanie Ross Love Notes From My Mother in Heaven
Twelve years have passed since my mother exclaimed, “I’ve died and gone to Heaven!” as she leaned back in her…
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By Priscilla Baker Parents, We’ve Created “The Loneliest Generation”—Here’s What We Need To Do About it Now
This post originally appeared on the author's Facebook page. Having had no fewer than 12 students (male and female) sob…
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By Kristin Schlegel Dear Young Mom, I Wish I Was You Again
Dear young mama, First, let me apologize. I am guilty of saying “enjoy every minute” and “they’ll be grown before…
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By Chelsea Ohlemiller Let the Grandparents Spoil While They Still Can
Today my children visited their grandmother, or as we call her Memeré (French for Grandma). It wasn’t like most visits…
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