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Category Archive: Family

Seven sneaky signs your teen might be using drugs

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Did my son really need a backpack every time he left the house? By Sherri Sacconaghi

October 24, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

If I had the chance to parent all over again

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I’d raise my family differently, not because of the mistakes I made—though I certainly made my share—but because time means so much more to me now. By Melissa T. Shultz

September 26, 2019 Family

How I came to appreciate my father’s weekly letters

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They arrived. One after the other. In snowstorms. On holidays. From foreign countries. In succession—as inevitable it seemed as midterms and finals. By David Joseph

September 24, 2019 Family

Lice helped my family in a time of sorrow

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I’d been craving more one-on-one time with my kids for so long and now, thanks to those pesky parasites, I had it. By Kate Lemery

September 18, 2019 Culture, Family

How my baby changed the way I look in the mirror

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My eyes focus on my abdomen, the bulge pregnancy has left behind. My inner critic opens her mouth…but then I take in the whole picture. By Chrissie Dunham

September 12, 2019 Family

After the baby, a marriage lost then found

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We would take a million pictures of our child but none of us. Forget to schedule date nights because we never needed them before. By Elizabeth Newdom

September 5, 2019 Culture, Family

Learning again how to pass the time

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Cell phones do not work here, and on a good day it takes only ten minutes to open email. By Mindy R. Roll

August 22, 2019 Family

What my frozen embryos mean to me

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They are part of my life’s topography. Tiny specks on my map of choices, loves and losses, hurts and heartbreak. By Jordan Namerow

July 31, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

The watershed moment I realized I wanted to be a mother

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I wonder now why it came as such a shock to me that friends would get married, that wild nights out would become sleepless ones at home with a baby. By Claire Lynch

July 18, 2019 Family

Mothers are experts at the art of reinvention

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“No offense Mom,” my oldest said to me a few years ago. “But you could have been so much more.” By Laura Pochintesta

July 9, 2019 Family

The year my daughter wanted an accident as her bedtime story

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We had a ritual that I honored until she outgrew the need for it. It occurs to me now that I needed it just as much as she did. By Tracy Tambosso

July 3, 2019 Family

How to talk with my daughter about anti-semitism

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My parents grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. Neither one of them knew how to tell me what had happened, so instead they said nothing. By Elissa Jacobs

June 27, 2019 Culture, Family

Let all mothers in, it’s hard enough to be a parent

I worry with the other moms about whether we’re good at it. Raising another person. By Marni Berger

June 20, 2019 Family

What does it mean to be a “real” mother?

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My daughter collapses after an endless tantrum and says, I wish I wasn’t adopted. By Tanya Friedman

May 30, 2019 Family

Pink shinguards for my son. Why did I care?

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I hesitated because I am a product of my society, just like everyone else. By Fiona Leary Boucher

May 29, 2019 Culture, Family

How my baby restores me at the end of the work day

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I arrive at the office. I mime professional. Am I a professional? For months my identity was pure and unquestioned: mother of an infant. By Janelle Ward

May 10, 2019 Culture, Family

What is your biggest parenting challenge right now?

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We asked, you answered. In three words.

May 9, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Explaining to my four-year-old what happens to bedtime kisses

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Kisses really mean love. When we kiss you goodnight, we told her, it leaves your cheek and travels straight into your heart. By Rosanne Ullman

May 8, 2019 Family

Finding the breath in the day-to-day routine of parenthood

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As parents sometimes it’s a struggle to carve out even a few minutes to breathe. By Steph Auteri

April 30, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Deciding what to do with our one frozen embryo

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This year is different. Maybe it’s because I’ve had the miscarriages. Maybe it’s because we both recently turned 42. By Angela Kidd

April 16, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

When do you stick with something even if you’re not the best at it?

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I want my son to see the value in committing to something because it’s beautiful and worthwhile, not because he’s certain to succeed. By Daisy Alpert Florin

April 4, 2019 Family

The gift of togetherness with a baby in the NICU

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We already lived paycheck to paycheck, how in the world would we scrounge up the money to stay in even a cheap hotel near our daughter? By Anna Whitlock

March 26, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

How to reconcile the empty nest me with the motherhood me

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So many parents speak of this transition period with promise and enthusiasm. But I loved nothing more than my kids walking through the door every day at 2:35pm. By Randi Olin

March 20, 2019 Family

On Prince, David Bowie, and losing Baby A

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Our daughter asked good questions—what about the other baby? Were we sad? Why did it happen? By Cynthia Nuara

February 27, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

My unexpected invitation to the school awards ceremony

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“Baby, it might be a mistake,” my mother said. “Sometimes they accidentally send these things out to the wrong people.” By Rebecca Potter

February 21, 2019 Family

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