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On their last break from school, my daughter and son happily enjoyed a nice week of catching up with friends…
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On their last break from school, my daughter and son happily enjoyed a nice week of catching up with friends…
Continue ReadingWe all know about mean girls. They're in the movies we go to see, the television shows we watch, and…
Continue Reading“Hey Mom, can you straighten my hair?” she asks. I gladly oblige. Because it’s not often that she needs—or wants—my…
Continue ReadingMy daughter turned 12 last month, which means we've somehow tiptoed into uncharted territory. I blinked, and then everything I…
Continue ReadingI touched her hair today. The delicate, fully-formed, angel-baby droplet plucked intentionally off heaven's tree and placed in my belly…
Continue ReadingMy (almost) 8-year-old daughter came in from tidying the yard and readying it for play to hand me the plastic,…
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Continue ReadingAnother quiet Saturday morning. The week flew by in a haze of kids’ sports practices, basketball games, last-minute grocery store…
Continue ReadingMy son is at an age where he couldn’t care less about personal grooming, his un-selfconsciousness both admirable and aggravating…
Continue Reading“Mom, can I have a phone?” “Mom, why won't you let me shave my legs?” “Mom, when can I wear…
Continue ReadingMillions of tween and teenage girls have read Judy Blume's coming-of-age classic, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret since…
Continue ReadingFrom the day she was born, I knew we had a firecracker on our hands. I tell people that the…
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