Behind Every Smiling Graduate Is a Mother Letting Go
Every year, millions of American families send their children off to their freshman year of college. Their pictures dot our…
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By Krystal Sieben Hannah Harper Is Every Mom with Babies in Her Arms and a Dream In Her Heart
By now, you’ve probably seen the posts flooding your feed: A young mom. Three little boys. A guitar strap embroidered…
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Watching Your Children Build the Life You Prayed For Is Beautiful
“I love you, Mom.” “Hmmm?” (A little louder) “I love you.” “I love you too…so very much.” I’d been deep…
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By Joy McLaughlin If You Give a Mom a Bouquet…
If you give a mom a bouquet… She goes to grab a vase to put it in. As she grabs…
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By JD Arbuckle Here In the Liminal Space of Parenting
It’s Friday night at 8:00. The intermittent snoring of an 80-pound lap dog is the only thing slicing through the…
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By Valerie Sawicki-Bellomo Mothers Are the Givers
As we were decorating the tree last Christmas, my son dug to the bottom of a box and pulled out…
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Maybe that “Mean Mom” Is Just Busy
Ever since Ashley Tisdale wrote about leaving her toxic mom group, I have noticed something shift among women my age,…
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By Joanne McHugh I’m Going to Tell You the Things Your Mom Should Have Told You
During my oldest daughter’s freshman year of college, I started being haunted by a recurring dream of an old-fashioned suitcase—one…
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By Cat Borg She’s 13 and Figuring Life Out
We’re in the teen years now. The years that were always way off in the future. Those times that seemed…
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The Half-Dressed Mom and Love in the Details
I am a proper mom. Not fancy, not prim—practical. I am dressed for the time of day, always. That is…
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By Michelle Friedman There Was a Shooting at My High School; Can I Keep My Kids Safe Anymore?
It is enough. I have had it. I had thought this year would be better. I tried to will it.…
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By Maria Warner God Carries Me Through the Deep Waters of Change
"Ahhh!" My underwater scream garbled in my snorkel tube as the manta ray’s cavernous mouth swept a hand’s distance from…
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