By Carolyn Moore Thanks for Loving My Kids When I Can’t be In the Stands
This weekend, our 15-year-old and 12-year-old played two different sports in two different tournaments at two different locations—at the same…
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By Her View From Home My Child Is Being Bullied and I Feel Like a Failure
When I became a mother, I had all these hopes and dreams for my children. And as they grew, those…
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What Your Mother Wants You to Know as You Begin High School
Dear high school freshmen, As you walk into high school on the first day of school, I want you to…
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My Daughter Misses Out Because of My Social Anxiety
There are a million things I wasn’t prepared for when I became a mom. It also seems like four years…
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I Gave My Kids Another Mediocre Summer
I’m an elder millennial—meaning I grew up with non-extravagant summers filled with Slip 'N Slides hooked up to water hoses,…
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To the Special Needs Mom Wondering If God Has Abandoned Her
It’s 6:03 a.m., and I’m awakened by the brightness of the kitchen light flooding our bedroom. In the kitchen, I…
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By Stephanie McCoy Our Kids Are Friends—Does That Mean We Have to Be Too?
I knew when I had kids that I would be dealing with the building and deconstruction of their friendships for…
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Someday He’ll Buy Another Girl a Ring, But Today This Boy’s All Mine
My boy bought me a ring. He stuck a token into a prize machine and out it popped. “It’s for…
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No One Tells You about the Grief that Comes with a Special Needs Diagnosis
Nobody tells you about the grief that comes with every diagnosis. The grief that comes from seeing your child be…
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At Long Last, Emily
The summer following my eighth-grade graduation, I discovered a stone wall across from the intersection of Forest Row and Franklin…
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By Carol Ewig The Bananas Are Sleeping (And Other Lies We Tell Our Children)
My granddaughter is obsessed with bananas. Not unlike many toddlers, she’s had a love affair with them from her first…
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While She’s Still Mine
I touched her hair today. The delicate, fully-formed, angel-baby droplet plucked intentionally off heaven's tree and placed in my belly…
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