I’m Not Letting My Teens Sleep All Day
I keep seeing posts from parents discussing how their teenagers are staying up all night and sleeping all day while not in school. And if that is…
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As a Middle School Mom, I’m on the Sidelines—Ready and Waiting
My oldest son is about to turn 13, and while it’s harder to find common ground with him during this phase of life, we have one huge thing in…
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Nothing Feels As Good As When Our Teens Come Back to Us
A couple of weeks ago, my son mentioned to my husband that he most likely would not be coming home for his college spring break. He had so many…
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If You Choose Not to Find Joy in Raising a Teenager, You Will Have Less Joy But the Same Amount of Teenager
Jack and I picked a crisp day to plop ourselves down on the ground in the front yard and plant some hyacinths for early spring. I could sense his…
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He’s Almost a Man But My Son Still Needs Me
Sometimes my teenager’s 6ft-tall stature and deep voice and shadow of a mustache and size 13 shoes trick me into thinking he might not need me so…
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The Teenage Years Will Break You
The teenage years will break you. It will test your resolve, your patience, your parenting choices. It will make you feel lonely and ostracized when…
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Here’s to Us, Middle-Aged Moms Just Trying to Keep Up
Do you ever feel like the rotting avocado on your counter? There it is. So promisingly fresh. So deceptively OK. Until it’s taco Tuesday and what…
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12 Books For Navigating the Lonely World of Parenting Tweens and Teens
When I found out I was pregnant and for a few years after, I devoured every parenting book I could find. I liked knowing what was going to happen and…
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Dear Daughter, I Hope One Day We Can Be Friends
Dear daughter, I hope one day we can be friends. I hope one day we have more discussions than arguments, conversations than fights, laughs than…
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The Truth About Parents of Teens is We’re All Faking it
So here’s the thing about parenting teenagers. It sort of makes us into liars. Like when someone asks how our tall kids are we say things…
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