It’s a shock that J.K. Rowling—one of our family’s champions—has chosen to deny the very existence of our child. By Carrie Goldman
Category Archive: Parenting Challenges
In the Before Time, I wouldn’t have allowed Call of Duty in our house, much less allowed him to play it for hours on end. By Deborah Williams
With all the changes in 2020, one thing has remained constant: being bullied is a traumatic experience for kids. By Lori Orlinsky
Step Three: Layer 2 healthy parents and 1 naturally skinny sister. By Amye Archer
I am carrying my own maternal fears right now and also those of my patients. By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco
Last spring, when we finally gave up the dream of returning to school, I held onto September as my North Star. By Steven Newmark
My daughter was born four weeks after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. By Jenny Leon
I watched my mother starve herself for years, food as a kind of inhaled medication. By Micah Stover
What if you are the best mother you can be and it’s still not enough to save your child? What if one mistake is the fatal bite? By Lauren Weiss
There have been many moments when I have simply broken down, walked upstairs and fallen face-first on my bed. By Tara Mandarano
Our kids had met only a handful of times, but now all of a sudden we were living together as a family. By Lauren Apfel
My son loves to eat at Grandma’s house, he gets real cream and real sugar. Unlike the dishes I cook, which are vegetarian or Paleo or Whole30. By Elizabeth Newdom
On their first day of homeschooling a punch was thrown over whose turn it was to use the laptop. By Sylvia Carr Clebsch
It’s both fascinating and frightening that my two-year-old son, Aksel, is starting to count. By Tommy Mulvoy
I heard the baby crying again, I didn’t get up. I was too hungover. By Victoria Vanstone
We have plenty of coffee in our cupboard. What’s not in bloom has buds, promises, waiting. By Kara Gebhart Uhl
It has to be a single leaf, floating through the sky by itself. Do you have a mom sign? By Kandace Chapple
My kids are used to my loud, Jewish-mom complaining—but not this unkindness. Not this anxiety-fueled rage. By Hannah Grieco
No matter how many times I failed, there wasn’t a month that went by that Hope didn’t convince me I was pregnant. By Amy Gallo Ryan
Look up, look around and listen. Here I am. Down the street or a phone call away. By Lisa Michelle
The last time I stood here I tried on eight dresses. I was fighting the side effects from chemo. I had no hair. By Krista Genevieve Farris
I breathe words like oxygen. They are everywhere. Except in the mouth of my child. By Leah Moore
We’ve had a rough time lately in ways that go beyond the ordinary awkward de-nesting of middle school. By Annie O’Brien
We pull ornaments from boxes labeled in my mother’s loopy cursive, giving our tree the same homespun look hers always had. By Mary Janevic
We are excited to share our most-read essays of the year!