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Category Archive: Parenting Challenges

My grandson tells me he doesn’t like the color of his skin

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In the summer, I put my sunbaked arm down next to his hoping he will notice it’s not so different. By Adrienne Sciutto

June 10, 2019 Culture, Parenting Challenges

It’s possible to stay too long at the fair

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These words by Joan Didion summed up my twenties, but they also capture the predicament of my current midlife crisis. By Elizabeth Newdom

May 20, 2019 Parenting Challenges

What is your biggest parenting challenge right now?

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We asked, you answered. In three words.

May 9, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Finding the breath in the day-to-day routine of parenthood

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As parents sometimes it’s a struggle to carve out even a few minutes to breathe. By Steph Auteri

April 30, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Deciding what to do with our one frozen embryo

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This year is different. Maybe it’s because I’ve had the miscarriages. Maybe it’s because we both recently turned 42. By Angela Kidd

April 16, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

On staying connected to my blind son

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Our bond is like entangled particles—if he feels something in his heart, I feel it too, instantaneously. By Darcie Whelan Kortan

April 9, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Seeing my complete family in the night sky

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Next to Orion’s Belt are two dimmer stars. These are the babies I lost, one before each of my sons. By Julia Pelly

March 28, 2019 Parenting Challenges

The gift of togetherness with a baby in the NICU

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We already lived paycheck to paycheck, how in the world would we scrounge up the money to stay in even a cheap hotel near our daughter? By Anna Whitlock

March 26, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

What happens when my son is with me in the ladies restroom

Mom smile while holding arm of adult autistic son in backyard of home
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Why in the world had I even brought the kids to the store? I just wanted to go home, have a good cry and forget about autism for a while. By Jennifer Jones

February 28, 2019 Parenting Challenges

On Prince, David Bowie, and losing Baby A

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Our daughter asked good questions—what about the other baby? Were we sad? Why did it happen? By Cynthia Nuara

February 27, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Yes, I know what it’s like to have a child with a delay

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We can try to compare miseries, heartaches, injustices but, in the end, it becomes impossible. By Diana Kupershmit

February 19, 2019 Parenting Challenges

How to rekindle love after kids? Try fresh limes.

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Our married life was no longer comfortable. There was no indulgence, no whispered promises of sweet dessert. By Hannah Grieco

February 13, 2019 Parenting Challenges

On the anniversary of my friend’s son’s death

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I sent you a bowl of black stones because of the hardness of loving a child for exactly who he is. By Brianne DeRosa

January 24, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Adopting older children and the transition to the empty nest

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I wanted to believe that bringing teenagers into our life would make it easier to let them go. I was wrong. By Meredith Gordon Resnick

January 16, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

My son’s recovery under the light of the moon

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This has become our routine: reliving each event point by point, trying to trigger a memory. By Amy Roost

January 7, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Motherwell’s most popular posts of 2018

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Motherwell publishes on all aspects of the parenting experience—from the poignant to the humorous to the thought-provoking. Here are our most-read original pieces from 2018.

December 10, 2018 Culture, Family, Parenting Challenges

I had a miscarriage. This is my story.

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If my belly was round and full of baby, would I hate my body less? This body that betrayed me. By Brittany Wren

December 3, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Fighting the patriarchy one grandpa at a time

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“Oh, relax,” he says, ruffling my daughter’s wispy blonde hair. “We’re just playing.” By Lisa Norgren

November 21, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How I spent the first Thanksgiving after my divorce

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My sister had asked me to bake. “Keep her busy” was the secret code among my family members that season. By Nancy Payne-Hambrose

November 19, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Can my 70-year-old mother find love after loss?

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It had been a long time since I’d heard her laugh. It felt like clouds parting. By Stewart Lewis

November 15, 2018 Parenting Challenges

My battle with anorexia is my mother’s battle too

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I tell my mom I’m eating everything I’m supposed to. But she sees through this immediately. By Allison Richards

November 5, 2018 Parenting Challenges

The little moments when we are hit by grief

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You will be in your slippers, making waffles, and suddenly remember that your mother is dead. By Brianne DeRosa

October 17, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Helping my mother clean out her closet, the year before she died

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After we gave it all to Goodwill, I lived in fear every day that I would see somebody else wearing my mom’s clothes. By Kandace Chapple

October 9, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Teens and drugs, but not my kid?

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I caught you with drugs today. I picked up your little glass pipe. It felt like a bomb in my hand. Boom. By Rica Lewis

September 18, 2018 Parenting Challenges

When you won’t let your kid quit, but then you do

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One mother refused to let her daughter stop playing the flute. So what made her change her mind? By Daisy Florin

September 12, 2018 Family, Parenting Challenges

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