When Your Son Turns 17, You No Longer Love a Boy—You Love a Man
When your son turns 17, he will start researching the acceptance rate to NYU, Penn State, and Temple University. Tell…
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When your son turns 17, he will start researching the acceptance rate to NYU, Penn State, and Temple University. Tell…
Continue ReadingMy oldest son just entered the teen years and started high school this year. This was really tough for me…
Continue ReadingCharles Dickens' words certainly resonated with me this year during last year's surge of graduations. My oldest son graduated with…
Continue ReadingHis legs, long and lean, seem to take up half the room, stretching off the couch and across the skinny…
Continue ReadingI keep seeing posts from parents discussing how their teenagers are staying up all night and sleeping all day while…
Continue ReadingMy oldest son is about to turn 13, and while it’s harder to find common ground with him during this…
Continue ReadingA couple of weeks ago, my son mentioned to my husband that he most likely would not be coming home…
Continue ReadingJack and I picked a crisp day to plop ourselves down on the ground in the front yard and plant…
Continue ReadingSometimes my teenager’s 6ft-tall stature and deep voice and shadow of a mustache and size 13 shoes trick me into…
Continue ReadingThe teenage years will break you. It will test your resolve, your patience, your parenting choices. It will make you…
Continue ReadingDo you ever feel like the rotting avocado on your counter? There it is. So promisingly fresh. So deceptively OK.…
Continue ReadingWhen I found out I was pregnant and for a few years after, I devoured every parenting book I could…
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