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Motherhood, Teen
November 10, 2019
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There Will Always Be Room For You At Home

First, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for all the tears. I didn’t know how soon they’d start but they’ve already begun rolling…

Motherhood, Teen
November 5, 2019
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How I’ve Changed as the Mother of a Teenager

A few months ago at church, two friends asked me how it was going with my daughter, and I didn’t know how to respond. They both had teenage…

Motherhood, Teen
November 1, 2019
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The Secret No One Told Me About the Teenage Years is How Much I’d Love Them

I expected the sighs and the eye-rolls and the closed bedroom doors. After all, I was a teenager once, too, and I remember how I treated my parents.…

Motherhood, Teen
October 18, 2019
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And Then, She’s 15

This is 15. 15 is early mornings at school and late-night studying. 15 is sleeping in any chance she gets and waking up at the last possible second.…

Gift Guides, Products We Love, Teen
October 17, 2019
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Great Gifts for the Hard-to-Shop-For Tween or Teen Boy

Of all the people on your holiday list, a tween/teen boy could be the hardest. These young men are still young at heart but often have…

Motherhood, Teen, Tween
October 17, 2019
3 Minute Read

Parenting is Harder Now So I’m Parenting Harder

Being irrelevant to my teenager daughter sounds amusing and inconsequential. Becoming irrelevant is different. It’s heartbreaking. The…

Motherhood, Teen
October 15, 2019
4 Minute Read

Sometimes All We Can Do is Be There For Our Teens

I slept on my teenage daughter’s bedroom floor last night. It wasn’t a slumber party. It was just all I could do. She’d gone to bed…

Motherhood, Teen
October 15, 2019
4 Minute Read

She’s 14 and I Already Miss Her

Behold the 14-year-old. Starting to spread her wings. Starting to turn her gaze outward from the walls of this house onto the great big world.…

Motherhood
October 10, 2019
4 Minute Read

To the Moms of Littles: We’re On the Same Team, Just in Different Seasons

Ok, mommas of littles. As a mother of teens, I want to share something with you. I know it may seem like mothers like me—the ones who now live with…

Motherhood, Teen
October 3, 2019
4 Minute Read

Don’t Pick Your Battles With Your Teen, Pour Love Instead

Recently, I watched from the side as my husband nagged my daughter about putting on more cold-weather gear before soccer practice. She was frustrated…

mom of teens

There Will Always Be Room For You At Home

How I’ve Changed as the Mother of a Teenager

The Secret No One Told Me About the Teenage Years is How Much I’d Love Them

And Then, She’s 15

Great Gifts for the Hard-to-Shop-For Tween or Teen Boy

Parenting is Harder Now So I’m Parenting Harder

Sometimes All We Can Do is Be There For Our Teens

She’s 14 and I Already Miss Her

To the Moms of Littles: We’re On the Same Team, Just in Different Seasons

Don’t Pick Your Battles With Your Teen, Pour Love Instead

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