When You Live with a Teen and a Tween
I live with a tween and a teen. The last of their baby canines and molars are falling out faster…
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By Jennifer JennyMac McCarthy The Last Size Small
It’s the little things, seemingly inconsequential tasks, that suddenly lead to bigger revelations. My youngest son is 15, and during…
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By Cat Borg There Is Beauty in the In-Between
She's at that in-between stage—not a young child, not a teen. She's tall. So very tall. And a little bit…
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By Moriah Couch No More Little Girl Shoes
When my daughter said she needed new shoes, I didn't think much of it, and we made a trip to…
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By Kris Ann Valdez I’ll Hold on To Moments of Childhood with My Preteen as Long as I Can
This Christmas season, my husband took our laser light projector and aimed it at the Australian bottle tree in the…
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By Joy A. Mead Getting Glasses Can be an Adjustment
On their last break from school, my daughter and son happily enjoyed a nice week of catching up with friends…
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By Lori Jarrett Moms Take a Hard Look in the Mirror When Our Girls Become Tweens
We all know about mean girls. They're in the movies we go to see, the television shows we watch, and…
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By Debra Caffrey Raising a Teenager Is a Long Walk through a Tunnel
So much parenting advice asks us to envision bridges as a metaphor for finding the path forward–bridges we need to…
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By Crystal Fulmer Watching Your Big Kids Blossom is a Blessing
A little over a week ago, I received a call from my dad, and over the next 12 hours regarding…
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By Krystal Sieben Sometimes a Kid Just Needs a Sick Day
My middle son stayed home from school today. He said he was sick. I’m not sure that is the truth.…
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Sometimes We Need Someone to Just Sit With Us in Our Struggle
Early this morning, I told (yelled is more accurate) my sons to get up with the same furious ferocity I…
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By Jen Schreiner God Is There for Middle School Mistakes
No one prepared me for the troubles of having two children going through middle school. I seemed to have forgotten…
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