The Teenage Years Will Break You
The teenage years will break you. It will test your resolve, your patience, your parenting choices. It will make you…
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The teenage years will break you. It will test your resolve, your patience, your parenting choices. It will make you…
Continue ReadingOf all the parenting hacks you’ll ever hear, this one is the most important. "LISTEN AND REPEAT." I didn’t make…
Continue ReadingSo here’s the thing about parenting teenagers. It sort of makes us into liars. Like when someone asks how our…
Continue ReadingThirteen years ago, I gave birth to an old soul. We refer to our middle child as Grandma Lily. She’s…
Continue ReadingMy freshman daughter came home from school yesterday and let me know that her teacher pulled her aside. “She wants…
Continue ReadingI stopped at the neighborhood grocery store for my quick mid-week stock-up. You know, just the essentials to get us…
Continue ReadingA few months ago at church, two friends asked me how it was going with my daughter, and I didn’t…
Continue ReadingI expected the sighs and the eye-rolls and the closed bedroom doors. After all, I was a teenager once, too,…
Continue ReadingThis is 15. 15 is early mornings at school and late-night studying. 15 is sleeping in any chance she gets…
Continue ReadingBeing irrelevant to my teenager daughter sounds amusing and inconsequential. Becoming irrelevant is different. It’s heartbreaking. The agonizing process of losing…
Continue ReadingI slept on my teenage daughter's bedroom floor last night. It wasn't a slumber party. It was just all I…
Continue ReadingNo one can be as fickle as an adolescent girl, which can make gift-giving tricky. This guide has something for…
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