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Category Archive: Family

Being raised by two moms made me who I am today

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My memories of growing up with gay parents in the early 2000s are fraught, confused, kaleidoscopic. By m.m. gumbin

March 23, 2022 Culture, Family

Learning to walk (alone) again. This time without my kids.

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I was a morning walker well before I was a mother. By Emma Wilkins

March 17, 2022 Family

Why pregnant women feel the need to keep secrets

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We tell the world about the lives that live, but we hold inside the lives that are lost. By Adrian Rose

March 7, 2022 Culture, Family

As a NICU mother, it felt like I’d failed my newborn son

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Time stands still in the NICU. Days are long, nights are lonely, and you feel useless. By Tania Lorena Rivera

December 8, 2021 Family

It’s still not easy to explain COVID to a three-year-old

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As the pandemic has dragged on, he’s grown into a thoughtful person who hears everything and wants answers. By Maya Schenwar

November 24, 2021 Culture, Family, Parenting Advice

I’m a single working mom, trying to do it all in a pandemic. It’s really hard.

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I have a full-time job and yet I still feel like I’m waiting for my ex-husband to see me as an equal human. By Katherine Sargent

October 21, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

10 of the best books about witches (and Harry Potter isn’t one of them)

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Lace up your boots, don your pointy hat, pick up your broomstick and come along for the ride. By Anaita Vazifdar-Davar

October 6, 2021 Books, Family

The day I re-thought what to say, and not say, to tired mothers

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Somewhere in my garage there is a bin of all the tiny rubber boots my children used to wear. By Kim June Johnson

September 23, 2021 Family

My grandmother’s handwritten recipes helped me find comfort in who she once was

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Not all recipes need to be cooked, but they all deserve to be read. By Tahnee Freda

September 15, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Learning how to accept the other mother in my daughter’s life

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I’m afraid of losing my daughter. I’m afraid of being replaced. By Jeannette Sanderson 

September 8, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

5 lessons I’ve learned from managing my son’s food allergies

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The hard truth is that I can’t protect my child from everything. By Megan Hanlon

September 1, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

How I respond to adoption questions like, are they really yours?

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I get that people are curious when your children don’t look like you. By Diane Bonina

August 31, 2021 Family

Why cleaning my daughter’s remote learning space wasn’t so easy for me

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Her posters reminded me that the little home-learning sanctuary we had created was now coming apart. By Katie Greulich

August 26, 2021 Culture, Family

Capturing the final moments of pregnancy in a picture

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It’s not just a celebrity thing. I know lots of mothers who have struck this pose. By Andrea Firth

August 23, 2021 Family

How a baby blanket taught one grandmother to embrace imperfection

three balls of wool and knitting needles
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There’s a name for these knitting mistakes: “grandma kisses.” By Carol Ewig

July 28, 2021 Family

Struggling to find my purpose after being a stay-at-home mom

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You finally have the freedom you’ve been dreaming about for years, but you don’t know what to do with it. By Laura Carraro

July 14, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

As my son graduates high school, a celebration of the past 18 years

confetti explosion
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My son is next, and before I can take a full breath, his name rings from the arena’s PA system. By Clint Martin

June 9, 2021 Family

A stranger’s gift to me in the Phoenix airport

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It occurred to me that I would have to live with this lifeless body—my baby—inside me for the next four days. By Sarah Gundle

June 3, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

One mother’s quest for perfection as an OCD parent

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All my OCD has become focused on making unpredictable toddlers happy and I am exhausted. By Jenny Leon

May 25, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

I dreamed of a boy, birthed a girl, now my child is non-binary

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I stumbled over the “they.” It felt clunky in my mouth. By Melissa Brand

May 20, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

My daughter is about to give birth, I’m mourning the loss of our bond

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I know our relationship—which has always been very close and strong—will never be the same again. By Carol Ewig

May 12, 2021 Family

How finding the right physical therapist for my son made all the difference

Eight-year-old with his physical therapist playing with an indoor plastic basketball hoop
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Each time Mark came for a session I saw Henry through a different lens. By Jaclyn Greenberg

May 11, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Yes, I’m still a mother after all these years

Sail boat with a red sail cruising in the calm waters of the evening.
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How could this have happened so quickly? My son is all grown up with a life and a sailboat of his own, 3,000 miles away from me. By Eileen Vorbach Collins

April 30, 2021 Family

Can yoga help parents of teens during the pandemic?

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He’s sick to death of online school, of not seeing his friends. By Heather Hewett

April 20, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

How a hopeful dance became part of our family’s new bedtime ritual

Toddler girl child enjoys playing in the large, designer bathtub and drinking
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The Naked Baby Dance encompasses all of my favorite parts of toddlerhood. It is both silly and sincere. By Martha Quinn

March 31, 2021 Family

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