Today’s Youth Restores My Faith in Humanity
I have faith in what I see, and I have faith in who I see. Today’s youth has restored my faith in humanity; a humanity that, in its current…
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Parents, Stop Roughing the Ref
Last week, the South Carolina Youth Soccer Association announced its upcoming “Silent September.” For “all SCYSA sponsored league games,…
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A Lesson From Mom
You were a big ‘meanie’ as I recall. It was right around my 14th birthday. All my friends were spending Saturday at the mall and…
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Just One More Time
We sit cross legged on the floor, playing Candyland for the third time, “Please, Mommy, just one more time!” We color with their crayons. His are…
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Why I Now Shut My Mouth On The Sidelines
I had no idea that I was expected to stop yelling my own child’s name with boisterous enthusiasm and begin cheering for her whole team in…
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A Tomboy on the Importance of Glitter
I’m terrible at being a girl. I’ve never seen Pitch Perfect, never read a Nicholas Sparks novel, and can count on one hand the number of…
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In defense of growing up and being “boring”
Change is a side effect of life. Every breath, every heartbeat, leaves us different, sometimes imperceptibly, from who we were before. As a kid, that…
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3 reasons why I’m encouraging my teenage son to expand his circle of friends
My teen son has a propensity for hanging out with other teens who like the same sports, the same music, the same video games, and the same clothes.…
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“Yes, I married young. No, I’m not pregnant.”
“Yes, I married young. No, I’m not pregnant.” I have found myself rhyming off these words countless times over the past three years. When I…
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Family White Bread
Written by Susan Littlefield @ Common Ground Nebraska This was one of the first things my late father-in-law, Rodney Littlefield, taught me how…
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