I Never Knew I Would Be So Lonely Raising Teenagers
I’ve always heard about the loneliness that comes while raising teens. Most days, I don’t understand it. I don’t understand…
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I’ve always heard about the loneliness that comes while raising teens. Most days, I don’t understand it. I don’t understand…
Continue ReadingRecently, I watched from the side as my husband nagged my daughter about putting on more cold-weather gear before soccer…
Continue ReadingIt seems like just yesterday when the alarm would go off at 6 a.m., I’d roll out of bed and…
Continue ReadingRight before I was married, my mom told me that she read a letter I sent to my college-aged brother…
Continue ReadingBeing a teenager is hard. I sat at the DMV with my daughter, waiting for her number to be called…
Continue ReadingI have a tween daughter who, since the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, loves to read. A few…
Continue ReadingTo the mother whispering through gritted teeth to her teenage daughter in the checkout line at Costco . . .…
Continue ReadingI wash the dinner pots and pans quietly as I look over at my twin daughters who are high school…
Continue ReadingIf you are the parent of a teenager, you have most likely heard about teens' rampant use of vaping. Kids…
Continue ReadingI think it was about the age my son turned 10 there became new boundaries: too big for cuddles, tickling…
Continue ReadingDear daughter, Be the girl who reaches behind and pulls the next person up to where you are at in…
Continue ReadingMy grandma smoked her first cigarette when she was 11. Seriously. That sounds shocking to us now, of course. It…
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