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Category Archive: 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

How to make a birthday cake for a one-year-old

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When you blow out the candle for her, be prepared: it will feel like blowing away her first year, your first year of motherhood. By Kaitlin Barker Davis

February 20, 2019 Family

Why are girls more stressed out than boys?

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I now hear regularly about girls who are so fearful of disappointing their teachers that they skip sleep to do extra-credit work for points they don’t need. By Lisa Damour

February 11, 2019 Books, Culture, Family

How to respect kids’ privacy in the age of parenting writing

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KJ Dell’Antonia, Jill Smokler, Jordan Shapiro, Janelle Hanchett, and Jessica Lahey weigh in on how much is too much when it comes to writing about our children.

February 5, 2019 Culture, Family

How do I know if it’s time to let go of my kids’ lost teeth?

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It doesn’t seem quite right to just toss these pearly whites in the trash (no matter how much I thanked them, with all due respect to Ms. Kondo). By Anne Brinser Shelton

February 4, 2019 Family

What our kids miss out on growing up in a curated world

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YouTube, Apple Music, Netflix. Kids seldom watch, listen to, or read anything these days they didn’t select themselves—or that wasn’t suggested by an anxious-to-please algorithm. By Mary Janevic

January 28, 2019 Culture, Family

Learning how to forgive myself for a childhood accident

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I was 10. I loved my cat, Gizmo. And I killed him. By Michael Gentry

January 27, 2019 Family

Adopting older children and the transition to the empty nest

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I wanted to believe that bringing teenagers into our life would make it easier to let them go. I was wrong. By Meredith Gordon Resnick

January 16, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

My son’s recovery under the light of the moon

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This has become our routine: reliving each event point by point, trying to trigger a memory. By Amy Roost

January 7, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Motherwell’s most popular posts of 2018

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Motherwell publishes on all aspects of the parenting experience—from the poignant to the humorous to the thought-provoking. Here are our most-read original pieces from 2018.

December 10, 2018 Culture, Family, Parenting Challenges

The day I stopped trying to make my father happy

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Dad never had to say he disapproved of my upcoming marriage. It was clear from everything he did. By Elizabeth Margaret Newdom

December 6, 2018 Family

21 hard things about motherhood my son might never know

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When he was two, I spent mornings stuffing tubes of penne with scrambled eggs to trick him into eating something other than pasta. By Marianna Marlowe

November 29, 2018 Family

The college application process: how to make sense of it all

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College counselor and admissions expert, Sara Harberson, offers valuable insight into the nitty gritty of the application process.

November 28, 2018 Culture, Family

Perspective | Why we are turning off football this year

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As much as I loved football as a kid, I don’t want my own sons watching—or playing—a sport based on such overt violence. By Kate Allen Fox

November 20, 2018 Culture, Family

Yes, parenting is hard. But it gets better.

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One day infants and diaper bags and hemorrhoids and boobs won’t be hanging off of your person like you’re a cross between a human mobile and a Sherpa. By Catherine Newman

October 24, 2018 Family

A mother and daughter look back on a 38-year-old picture

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One family photo, two different perspectives. By Pat Alexandro and Amy Alexandro Jones

October 15, 2018 Family

After 18 years of parenting, what does it mean to be a good mother?

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When it was time to walk away—leaving my son there and a part of my life behind—I didn’t have any regrets. By Randi Olin

September 26, 2018 Family

What I learned when my kids didn’t want to move

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All of my efforts to push them toward enthusiasm only served to exacerbate their resistance. By Christie Tate

September 13, 2018 Family

When you won’t let your kid quit, but then you do

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One mother refused to let her daughter stop playing the flute. So what made her change her mind? By Daisy Florin

September 12, 2018 Family, Parenting Challenges

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