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Category Archive: Parenting Challenges

Seeing who my child really is, across the basketball court

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My daughter’s emerging identity—the fluidity she wanted to embody—seemed to be taking her away from me. By Shelly R. Fredman

March 24, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Let kids wear what they want. It matters more than ever.

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We owe our children safe spaces to adorn themselves with color and material and fit and comfort as they decide. By Kristen H. McLeod

March 10, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

If only I could have a mom “room of requirement” like in Harry Potter

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Through the years I’ve gotten rid of sentimental items I would love to see at least one more time. By Kimberly Witt

February 23, 2022 Parenting Challenges

How is it that we’re still asking what stay-at-home moms do all day?

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Having choices, not just careers, is fundamental to feminism. By Liz Sjaastad

February 16, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How reading so many books about grief helped me through my own

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I wanted to learn how people managed to survive the unthinkable. By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser

February 2, 2022 Books, Parenting Challenges

Why it’s important for boys to be able to wear their hair long

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My son’s chestnut brown hair flows a foot down his back. By Jesse Curran

January 26, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Teaching my kids how to make focaccia helped my family find peace

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There’s power in knowing you can do something creative, even in a world turned upside down. By Sarah Walker Caron

January 24, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Is it ever okay to comment on your child’s weight? One parent wonders.

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My son obsessively exercises during the commercials of whatever he happens to be watching. By Michael Bahler

January 20, 2022 Parenting Challenges

My youngest child is nine. I still have breastmilk in the freezer.

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I simply couldn’t bring myself to throw those old bottles away. By Manndi Maphies Wilkins

January 19, 2022 Parenting Challenges

Learning how to manage holiday expectations in the face of a diagnosis

back of a seled pink holiday envelope
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I now see Christmas as a time for an extra dose of grace, for patience with others and especially ourselves. By Lisa Doggett

December 17, 2021 Parenting Challenges

My parents won’t get vaccinated. Will we celebrate the holidays together?

woman holding out a candy-cane wrapped gift
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I don’t have an answer. I want to see them, but I also want to protect my family. By Melissa Scholes Young

December 15, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Holiday cards only tell half the story, but I still send them anyway

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There we stood, guilty of creating a fairy-tale holiday card in the middle of a crisis. By Vanessa Garza

December 1, 2021 Parenting Challenges

The beauty and tumult of a very big family

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With six children, you learn to spread anxiety thinly over everyone until it ceases to have much impact. By Jodi Bartle

November 17, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Why I have mom guilt when my children miss out on things

#fomo with yellow sneakers underneath
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The fact that my kid is in his school uniform while his classmates are all dressed for the party makes me cringe. By Virginia Fundora

November 9, 2021 Parenting Challenges

My husband is a gamer. This is what it’s like for me.

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The day our third child came along, I often found myself fantasizing about cutting the cords of his computer. By Tania Lorena Rivera

October 27, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Starting the school year sober. Here’s my story.

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I have spent years juggling my three jobs: teacher, mother, and alcoholic. By Jennifer Dines

October 21, 2021 Parenting Challenges

I’m a single working mom, trying to do it all in a pandemic. It’s really hard.

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I have a full-time job and yet I still feel like I’m waiting for my ex-husband to see me as an equal human. By Katherine Sargent

October 21, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

My 16-year-old had to make medical decisions on his own. I was shocked.

IV drip pole against blue background
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Whisking him off to surgery without even a mention to his parents seemed a premature exit from the cocoon of childhood. By Lauren Apfel

October 14, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Cooking a birthday dinner with my stepson changed our relationship for the better

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The particular bonding of a blended family didn’t come easily to me. By Tess Clarkson

October 12, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Playing with Legos is what helped two brothers build their strong bond

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My Lego games with Brian defined our relationship. Until, one fateful day, he left for college. By Matt Hollingsworth

October 7, 2021 Parenting Challenges

No matter what stage of life, mothers are always listening out

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The saying that a mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child is true. By Beth Thompson

September 29, 2021 Parenting Challenges

The best books about kids who have lived through difficult times

little girl reading a book in front of window
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Literature is a great way to put our pandemic struggles into perspective. By Laura Catherine Hanby Hudgens

September 20, 2021 Books, Parenting Challenges

My grandmother’s handwritten recipes helped me find comfort in who she once was

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Not all recipes need to be cooked, but they all deserve to be read. By Tahnee Freda

September 15, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

How anxiety taught me to choose myself, even over my mother

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I wasn’t used to saying “no” to Mom—and didn’t know where to begin. By Elizabeth Newdom

September 14, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Learning how to accept the other mother in my daughter’s life

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I’m afraid of losing my daughter. I’m afraid of being replaced. By Jeannette Sanderson 

September 8, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

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