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Category Archive: Parenting Challenges

This is how it feels to parent through a miscarriage

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The sun was shredding us, both me and the stupid snow cone. By Mary Adkins

September 2, 2021 Parenting Challenges

5 lessons I’ve learned from managing my son’s food allergies

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The hard truth is that I can’t protect my child from everything. By Megan Hanlon

September 1, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Why I wish I hadn’t played with my kids so much

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During those play sessions I frequently felt resentful and bored. By Marya Markovich

August 11, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Losing a child and wondering if you will you ever be okay again

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I was in no hurry to let go of my grief. It was what I had left of my daughter. By Mary Janevic

July 22, 2021 Parenting Challenges

My partner has a dog, I’m trying to learn how to love him.

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Would I embrace the care of my own pet with more gusto? Tolerate its mess, its foibles—the way I do my own kids? By Lauren Apfel

July 19, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Struggling to find my purpose after being a stay-at-home mom

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You finally have the freedom you’ve been dreaming about for years, but you don’t know what to do with it. By Laura Carraro

July 14, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

My mom was very competitive. This is how it affected me.

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My mother set about blending our identities from the day I was born. By Nancy Camden

July 12, 2021 Parenting Challenges

The reason why packing my kids’ lunches is so important to me

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My brother and I complained constantly about our sad lunches, but our parents ignored us. By Simone Muñoz

July 9, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Mourning the loss of my old phone number

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When I forgot my homework or my pants ripped at recess I dialed on auto-pilot. By Jonathan Meyer

July 8, 2021 Parenting Challenges

I only have one kid, will I always be expected to help with yours?

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Sometimes my siblings complain about the stresses of parenting and I want to say, then why did you have three? By Grace Orbison

July 1, 2021 Parenting Challenges

How we measure our children against each other (and why we shouldn’t)

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Don’t tell the youngest he should eat nicely like his elder sister, just say you can see he’s playing with his food. By Lynn Berger

June 30, 2021 Books, Parenting Challenges

I never grieved my miscarriage, and then the blender exploded

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I needed a kitchen coated in berry smoothie to finally understand what I couldn’t then. By Nicole Gulotta

June 28, 2021 Parenting Challenges

How being a latchkey kid has affected me as a working mom

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I bought the ‘having it all’ narrative like so many other women of my generation. But I didn’t read the fine print. By Virginia Fundora

June 16, 2021 Parenting Challenges

I dream what would happen if my two husbands met

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When Steve died, I found it hard to imagine ever finding love again. By Sarah Kilch Gaffney

June 15, 2021 Parenting Challenges

3 things I learned at the CIA that helped me survive early postpartum

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It was my CIA training and experience that eventually helped alleviate some of the anxiety. By Christina Hillsberg

June 8, 2021 Books, Parenting Challenges

A stranger’s gift to me in the Phoenix airport

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It occurred to me that I would have to live with this lifeless body—my baby—inside me for the next four days. By Sarah Gundle

June 3, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

I’m a Google executive. This is why I advocate low tech for my kids.

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Our children’s immature brains do not stand a chance against the sophisticated algorithm we designed to hook users. By Eva Tsai

June 2, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

One mother’s quest for perfection as an OCD parent

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All my OCD has become focused on making unpredictable toddlers happy and I am exhausted. By Jenny Leon

May 25, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

I dreamed of a boy, birthed a girl, now my child is non-binary

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I stumbled over the “they.” It felt clunky in my mouth. By Melissa Brand

May 20, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

One mom’s journey to becoming, and staying, a non-drinker

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Lunchtime beers would spill into afternoon cocktails and then more cocktails. By Jordan Souza

May 18, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Finding a way to keep my mother’s memory alive in my garden

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In death as in life, she would be surrounded by nature’s bounty. By Megan Hanlon

May 17, 2021 Parenting Challenges

How finding the right physical therapist for my son made all the difference

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Each time Mark came for a session I saw Henry through a different lens. By Jaclyn Greenberg

May 11, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Excerpt: How to give your kids the gift of autonomy

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Parents who help their children too much leave their kids ill-prepared to be adults. By Michaeleen Doucleff

May 10, 2021 Books, Parenting Challenges

When back pain becomes part of your life as a parent

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As the mental pain of being a woman collides with the physical pain of motherhood, I search for relief everywhere. By Megan Sovern

May 6, 2021 Parenting Challenges

After years of rejecting a beauty regime, this is why I finally embraced one

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My mother was praised her whole life for her beauty; I preferred praise for my mind. By Emily Franklin

May 5, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

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