As Your Children Grow, Shortcuts Become More Important
One of the strangest phenomenon to plague mothers, I’ve discovered, is that as your children age, our free time...
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Being Grateful Gives Us Something To Do
I think our greatest challenge as mothers is to teach our kids to be grateful for every little thing. This...
Strong Boundaries in an Uncertain World
My middle-schooler is afraid to go to the bathroom at school because the kids are smoking e-cigs there. Some...
The Best Part of the Fire Drill That Wasn’t A Fire Drill
Lightning struck the high school. I learned this while standing in Macy’s basement, where I was buying a boy’s...
The Uses of Enchantment
The day I decided to become a mother, I was sitting in a college lecture hall, surrounded by more...
Time Blocking IPhone App
Now, I don’t know why I waited so long to install a parental control app that gives me the...
You Have To Be Really Careful Around This Curve…
The college boy is rowing. New this year. When I picked him up to come home for Christmas, he...
Parent to Teen: Universal Language
In the morning, before I’ve finished my first cup of tea, I listen to the blaring sounds of the...
It Was Just So Soothing To Leave Every Note Touched
For weeks, my very own son, sat down at the piano, hunched over the keyboard, iPad off to the...