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Category Archive: Family

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

How I talk to my sensitive son about what he’s feeling

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“What color is fear?” my sons asks me. “I think it’s sunset orange.” By Lorna Rose

March 24, 2021 Family

My toddler talks to bagels. Will he be able to talk to other kids?

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He’s been out of daycare for nearly a year, but he has befriended the couch. By Maya Schenwar

March 18, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

How a family roller disco saved our winter

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Our roller disco will be a celebration of survival, a catchpenny affair, meant to launch us into the season of renewal. By Samantha Shanley

March 10, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

How making yogurt keeps my hope alive

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If you know the taste of real yogurt, or freedom, you won’t give it up easily. By Daniela Elza

February 18, 2021 Family

The things I tell myself one year after giving birth

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In the past twelve months you have become Mama and Mommy and Mum, but you are also still you. By Emily Brisse

February 3, 2021 Family

A letter to my daughter about breasts

Pink ribbon for an awareness of Breast Cancer.
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The loss of my breasts made one thing clear. I had wasted so much time hating my perfectly good functioning body. By Jenny Leon

January 12, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Here’s to hope, and hugging my grown son this year

icicles in a blue sky
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I wonder if this is the year I’ll get to invite my son inside. By Kathi Valeii

January 11, 2021 Culture, Family

What happened when my 20-year-old son became a single parent

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At 42, I’d gone from newlywed to grandma. And no, it didn’t feel like a blessing. By Rica Lewis

January 5, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Motherwell’s ten most popular posts of 2020

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What a year it’s been! Here are our most read pieces of 2020.

December 15, 2020 Family

My daughter has become more needy in the pandemic

little girl screaming outside
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“I’m scared!” she refuses to go upstairs alone. “Sit next to me,” she pleads from the couch. “Closer,” then clings to my arm. By Jennifer Alessi

December 14, 2020 Culture, Family

Making toffee at the holidays with the woman I never knew

old recipe card for English toffee
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As I open my fifth holiday season as a single woman and a mother of three, I watch the butter and sugar vanish into one another again. By Samantha Shanley

December 10, 2020 Family

Walking with my child through the pandemic

black and white two people's leg walking on pavement
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Now it is deep into fall and all I know is this: he sleeps late, he is very tall, and sometimes he still wants to walk with me. By Gretchen Michelfeld

December 9, 2020 Culture, Family

The world felt out of control. So I became PTA Secretary.

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When I was younger, there were life choices I viewed as a certain death of the soul. Now I’m the owner of a Honda Odyssey and parent to three kids. By Cara McDonough

December 3, 2020 Culture, Family

How pandemic life is like life with a newborn

nurse weighing a newborn baby
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The internet says this stage can last weeks or months or more. You think to yourself, those experts must be wrong because I can’t take another day. By Samantha Gratton

November 17, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

The importance of hugs, especially now

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Even though he’s grown, my son’s hugs mean more to me now than they ever have. By Dawn Gerber

October 22, 2020 Family

Figuring out how to talk to my daughters about religion

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I never tell my children what’s real or what to believe, I simply lend definitions. By Katherine Sargent

October 12, 2020 Family

My breast cancer made me reevaluate breastfeeding

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After my diagnosis, there was no question in anyone’s mind that my daughter was going to be bottle-fed. By Jenny Leon

September 23, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

Why I don’t like the phrase “mommy brain”

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Behind every “mommy brain” story, there’s a fuller picture. Modern motherhood makes impossible demands. By Nicole Graev Lipson

September 21, 2020 Family

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