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Category Archive: Parenting Challenges

Fertility is not a competitive sport

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I was ashamed of my pregnancy losses. I felt I had been kicked out of some elite club of women with impeccably functioning wombs.
By Stephanie Sprenger

July 21, 2016 Parenting Challenges

The other end of the block

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A mother of a special needs child finds unexpected common ground with her neighbor.
By Brianne DeRosa

July 19, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Mom after miscarriage

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After infertility, she’s not the parent she thought she’d be.
By Amy Klein

July 12, 2016 Parenting Challenges

A stepson’s summer visit

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It is an awesome responsibility to be entrusted with the care of someone’s child, but for the first time I’m less anxious about it.
By Teri Carter

July 12, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Parenting in the shadow of PTSD

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Both my children hate being around me and water—I’m the parent whose urgent, borderline hysteria ruins all the fun.
By Christie Tate

July 5, 2016 Parenting Challenges

My favorite part of motherhood? I’m not so sure.

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Is it possible to love being a mom without knowing why?
By Christine Organ

June 27, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Lamenting the loss of summer for college kids

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A summer internship might help my daughter narrow down her career options, but I think she needs a break from the stress of her freshman year. By Randi Olin

June 13, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Sometimes it’s painful to be a gay parent in public

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If my partner and I had been straight we might have all nodded to each other in recognition, but because we are queer, our difference is what stands out.
By Jennifer Berney

May 1, 2016 Culture, Parenting Challenges

When I used to be my son’s go-to person

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That little boy who would cling to me is now a teenager who opts to spend much of his time in his room. By Randi Olin

May 1, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Seven and still sucking his thumb

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Seven years on, my son is still a sucker, thumb mostly, but also occasionally sleeves, zippers, the pointed snout of a stuffed animal.
By Daisy Alpert Florin

May 1, 2016 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

This is your crappy childhood

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I can’t help feeling sad for all the things I imagined his childhood to be, but now know it won’t.
By Zsofia McMullin

May 1, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

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