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Category Archive: Parenting Challenges

My teenage daughter is refusing the HPV vaccine

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The doctor finally looked at me and said, “We can’t hold her down. She’s sixteen.”
By Laurie Lichtenstein

March 13, 2017 Parenting Challenges

What we neglect when the children are young

view of a blue-framed window and wooden table with a bowl and foliage on it
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Nobody told me while my house was falling apart that eventually I would start to see clearly again.
By Lauren Apfel

February 22, 2017 Family, Parenting Challenges

When reading at grade level is not good enough

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None of the parents I know are copping to having a kid who is average.
By Christie Tate

February 16, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why politics matters to me in the college selection process

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I want my children to be part of a college community that is more in line with the ideologies of #Imwithher than #MAGA.
By Randi Olin

February 14, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

The myth of co-parenting

colourful drawing a mother holding her baby in the crook of her neck
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It made me spitting mad, the way the daily duties of parenting and home ownership began to rest entirely on me.
By Hope Edelman

January 19, 2017 Books, Parenting Challenges

My foster child is gone, am I still a mother?

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I cling to the knowledge that if I have given her anything, I have given her hope. I see it in her smile.
By Jenn O’Connor

January 17, 2017 Parenting Challenges

In the moment of miscarriage

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I can’t imagine spreading my legs and letting doctors make quick work of this loss.
By Nicole Piasecki

January 12, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Confessions of a mom who doesn’t worry

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If actively fearing for your children’s safety is a natural instinct, my maternal hardwiring must be faulty. By Lauren Apfel

January 5, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Motherwell’s most popular posts of 2016

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Motherwell publishes provocative, evocative essays on all aspects of the parenting experience. Here are our most-read pieces from 2016.

December 20, 2016 Culture, Family, Parenting Challenges

Winter is here, but my baby is not

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I’m postpartum. Without a newborn. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, my baby didn’t make it.
By Jenn Press Arata

December 6, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Almost 40, dating, and I want another baby

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What shocked me most about online dating was the absolute scorn for women who wanted, or already had, children.
By Dena Landon

November 30, 2016 Parenting Challenges

At the end of a family’s difficult year: gratitude

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If bad things really do happen in threes, then my son being hit by a car had completed our 2016 trifecta.
By Samantha Shanley

November 28, 2016 Parenting Challenges

The first photo of my premature baby

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Photographs suggested a future, a future in which we would look back at this moment, but a future where our baby might be gone.
By Yvonne Spence

November 22, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | Yes, I f-ing let my kids curse

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If you calm down about the illicit nature of the words, we’re just talking about talking.
By Brianne DeRosa

November 2, 2016 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | No swearing in my house

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Our no cursing rule is one way I maintain the boundary between child and adult.
By Lisa Sadikman

November 2, 2016 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

The length of the pause

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One day my son was a typically developing, albeit shy, three-year-old. The next he wasn’t able to say a word in public.
By Tanya Mozias Slavin

October 31, 2016 Parenting Challenges

The boring tragedies of parenthood

Sketch of ancient women in a row holding onto each other
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I am shocked still by the parenting moments that break my heart.
By Catherine Newman

October 27, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Learning to be a worrier mom from afar

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I had to step back and let her stand on her own two feet—even when she was shivering feverishly under the covers.
By Candy Schulman

October 25, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | Explain this tutoring thing to me, please                        

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Why do so many kids have tutors? Are the placement requirements that lax or is everybody just trying to get a leg up?
By Francie Arenson Dickman

October 15, 2016 Culture, Parenting Challenges

The journey of pregnancy after miscarriage

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The #IHadAMiscarriage campaign was launched to de-stigmatize pregnancy loss.
By Jessica Zucker

October 13, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Why our kids need others to love them

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Caregiving, which is typically undervalued and underpaid, needs to be given the respect it deserves.
By Vicki Larson

October 4, 2016 Parenting Challenges

The early days of an autism diagnosis

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Nowhere in my plans was talking to a stranger about teaching basic social skills. Nowhere in my plans was autism.
By Katie Read

September 27, 2016 Parenting Challenges

An ultrasound of a beating heart, at last

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By the time we left China, it felt like he was ours, wholly and completely. And he is. But he is not.
By Kelly Westhoff

September 27, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

How to wean your three-year-old with a cupcake

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I couldn’t let my child have carte blanche access to my body for as long as she saw fit, the way I had originally thought I would.
By Doña Bumgarner

September 20, 2016 Parenting Challenges

My son doesn’t smile for photos

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Her son never wanted to be in the picture. Then he discovered himself behind the camera.
By Debbie Urbanski

September 12, 2016 Parenting Challenges

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