By Sara Springer What They Forget To Tell You About Motherhood
Motherhood. The world does not adequately prepare you for all that role truly encompasses. Sure, they tell you many things like: …
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Dear Teen, I’m Down To 5 Years Left With You
And then there were five. Five measly years left with you. How could that ever be enough? How could five…
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Our Teens Let Go First
For the adolescents in my nest, everything seems too big. There is no context or perspective, only borderless heartache and…
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They Need Me Less and I Love Them More
In less than two weeks, my oldest son will be a fifth-grader and my youngest son will excitedly enter the…
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By Jennifer Blanke Trusting a Teenager Takes Time For a Mama’s Heart
I’m not going to lie, I was completely and utterly unprepared for my teenager’s booming social life. I mean, we…
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This is What Loving a Big Kid Looks Like
This is me, loving you, my big kid. Biting my tongue and biding my time. Thinking. And waiting. And it’s…
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By Tanya Teichroeb We Raise Our Children To Say Goodbye, But I’m Not Ready
I know we raise our children to release them in the end, but will I be ready to say goodbye…
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By Sunny Russell The Letting Go Happens Slowly
As parents, we don’t let our kids go all at once . . . but in countless ordinary moments that…
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By Lorilyn Bridges One of the Hardest Parts of Motherhood is Letting Our Kids Find Their Own Way
Oh, sweet mama, you're not alone . . . we've all done it. And some of us even do it…
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No Matter Where They Go, My Children Take a Piece of My Heart With Them
When you become a mom, you become a heart donor. From that moment on, a piece of your heart goes…
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By Stephanie Faro To the Man Who Quietly Holds Us Together: We See You
You’ve always been the calm one. The steady force that keeps this family from going off the rails. The man…
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By Traci Rhoades I Guess This is What It Feels Like to Let Go
You were only a few months old when I dressed you in that tiny green dress with embroidered flowers. I…
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