I Will Baby My Son For as Long as I Can
I am a mom who gets criticized because I baby my son. I was the mom who held her son…
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I am a mom who gets criticized because I baby my son. I was the mom who held her son…
Continue ReadingIt was 10:30 p.m. when I heard him coming down the stairs. I paused Poldark, put down my phone on…
Continue ReadingRight now, I can fix everything for him. I am the balm, the healer, the solution. He is only a…
Continue Reading“It’s just baby acne,” his doctor told me time and time again. His cheeks blossomed with red bumps that turned…
Continue ReadingOur kids need to see what’s manly. And not in that Thickburger, retreating to the man cave kind of way.…
Continue ReadingI watched from the driver’s seat my oldest son shut the passenger door and walk toward the high school entrance…
Continue ReadingMy dear, sweet firstborn. As the days pass by, your status as an only child is slowly coming to an…
Continue ReadingStay here a little while. Where new freckles on your nose have formed. Where sun-kissed hair has come to make its…
Continue ReadingI remember when my son was born like it was yesterday—a fussy, colicky, jaundiced, heat-rash bundle of baby boy. My…
Continue ReadingIt’s 15, and for those of you who haven’t yet crossed 15, 15 is this. Fifteen is late nights. Late…
Continue ReadingBuried within the correspondence from politicians seeking donations and stores celebrating Labor Day sales, I spot an email from a…
Continue Reading“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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