By Ashleigh Paterson My Love Will Carry You When My Arms No Longer Do
Right now, I can fix everything for him. I am the balm, the healer, the solution. He is only a…
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By Cassandra Kostuch “What’s Wrong With Your Baby?” Our Heartbreaking Struggle With Severe Eczema.
“It’s just baby acne,” his doctor told me time and time again. His cheeks blossomed with red bumps that turned…
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Our Kids Need To See What’s Manly
Our kids need to see what’s manly. And not in that Thickburger, retreating to the man cave kind of way.…
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By Cheryl Donely As the Mom of a Teen, I Know I Belong a Few Steps Back
I watched from the driver’s seat my oldest son shut the passenger door and walk toward the high school entrance…
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By Rachel Zeko You’ll Always Be Mommy’s Little Boy
My dear, sweet firstborn. As the days pass by, your status as an only child is slowly coming to an…
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By Maria Garito Stay Here Awhile, My Child
Stay here a little while. Where new freckles on your nose have formed. Where sun-kissed hair has come to make its…
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By Carole Johnston My Little Boy is in There Still, I Know it
I remember when my son was born like it was yesterday—a fussy, colicky, jaundiced, heat-rash bundle of baby boy. My…
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By Rachel Gossen This is 15
It’s 15, and for those of you who haven’t yet crossed 15, 15 is this. Fifteen is late nights. Late…
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By Maribeth Darwin It Isn’t Easy To Say Goodbye To the Little Boy I Raised
Buried within the correspondence from politicians seeking donations and stores celebrating Labor Day sales, I spot an email from a…
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By Tabitha Yates I’m Not Going To Toughen Up My Sensitive Son
“Baby, I need you to stop crying about everything,” I say to my 4-year-old son, followed by a heavy sigh.…
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By Krista Ward They Tell You To Hold the Baby, But No One Warns You How Fast He Grows
They tell you to hold the baby. They tell you that everything else can fall by the wayside. They tell…
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By Liz Curtis Faria There’s a Little Boy Where My Baby Once Was
Today my baby became a little boy. The change has been coming for a while even if I didn't quite…
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