Don’t Pick Your Battles With Your Teen, Pour Love Instead
Recently, I watched from the side as my husband nagged my daughter about putting on more cold-weather gear before soccer…
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Recently, 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 was up before the sun again. It is creeping up slower now, as the month is drawing to another…
Continue ReadingThis post originally appeared on the author's Facebook page. Having had no fewer than 12 students (male and female) sob…
Continue ReadingIf you are the parent of a teenager, you have most likely heard about teens' rampant use of vaping. Kids…
Continue ReadingParents, can I ask a favor? Can we stop pushing the goalposts back for our kids? Can we stop changing…
Continue ReadingIf you are the parent of a teenager, you've probably lectured them a few times about how hard the real…
Continue Reading“Five kids??” “You know how this happens don’t you?” “Did you have all five on purpose??” A head shake and…
Continue Reading“My stomach is full of butterflies!” “I feel like I could puke!” “Eeekkk, I’m so nervous!!” “This is scary!” Those…
Continue ReadingI don't have any boys. My house is about as estrogen-charged as one can get with three teenage daughters living…
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