Parenting Older Teens is Like a Constant Case of the Sunday Scaries
If you’ve ever experienced the "Sunday Scaries," you know the feeling well. It’s a mix of anxiety, doom, and excitement…
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College Means Our Home Is Not His Home Anymore
He was home! As he walked in the door, I breathed a sigh of relief. I had followed his trip…
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By Michelle Hurst So Much of Parenting Teens is Slowly Letting Go
I saw an exhausted mom in front of me at Target the other day. Her cart was loaded with diapers…
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By Rhonda Chiger You Don’t Realize How Fast Time Goes until You’re Looking Back at It
My son Cooper recently achieved a major milestone: he surpassed me in height. I knew this day would come, but…
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By Amy Keyes These Days the Growing Pains Are Mine
When my boys were younger, I always knew when they were hitting a growth spurt. Aches and pains came out…
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A Teenager, Late-Night Smoothies, and Letting Go Slowly
Every night, without fail, my 17-year-old makes a smoothie before he goes to bed. It doesn’t matter what time it…
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Repair Is the Hardest, Most Important Work of Parenting Teens
Dear fellow moms, I messed up . . . again. I messed up again. I’m not perfect, but this time,…
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God Will See You Through These Teenage Years
To my son, Today you came home upset. You didn’t want to talk about it, so I gave you a…
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I Wasn’t Built for Raising Teens but I Was Made to Be Their Mom
When my kids were little, I was always looking to the next phase—when I’m done nursing, when they sleep through…
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By Charissa Bates Please Be Kind To Teenage Workers
“Thanks for being kind to me,” a teenager tells me at the fast food restaurant window as he hands me…
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By Krystal Sieben The World is Different and So are Our Kids
It’s a sunny Tuesday afternoon, I pull up to the yellow curb and hear the flag jangling against the pole.…
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By Kim Brown Reiner The Muscle of Missing You in College
My parents dropped me off at Dascomb Hall in Oberlin College way before cell phones or initials in neon lights…
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