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Perspective | I don’t go to every school event

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Children are resilient little creatures and they don’t need our eyes on them, our attendance at every single school function, to know how profoundly they matter.
By Lauren Apfel

May 31, 2016 Family

Perspective | I go to all of my son’s games

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The idea of my son scanning the stands for my face and not finding it is a horrifying thought, a cross I cannot seem to bear. By Randi Olin

May 31, 2016 Family

The existential crisis of motherhood

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My entire life had become an existential paradox: I could endure neither my love for the baby nor the idea that he could be lost to me. By Catherine Newman

May 4, 2016 Family

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

Why you shouldn’t de-friend that Trump supporter

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Without practicing curious, respectful engagement ourselves, we can’t expect to pass it on to our children.
By Sharon Holbrook

May 1, 2016 Culture

A different kind of birth

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Would having another baby after 50 salve my grief over my children leaving home?
By Andrea Jarrell

May 1, 2016 Culture

Of course I told my twins who was born first

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Does the minute matter? If they didn’t know about it, would Baby A tease Baby B less? Would she watch out for her less? My hunch is no.
By Francie Arenson Dickman

May 1, 2016 Culture, Family

To brag or not to brag?

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There’s a fine line between being proud of our kids and bragging about them. Pride keeps the accomplishment firmly in their own hands. Bragging is a more public endeavor.
By Lisa Sadikman

May 1, 2016 Parenting Advice

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

On telling my kids I love them

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I don’t think we are a family who loves each other in some especially profound way. We have just made the words that stand for our love a part of the verbal dance we do.
By Lauren Apfel

May 1, 2016 Culture

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

The irreconcilable dreams of a working mother

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I am a mother and I am a lawyer. I don’t know how to reconcile these parts of myself, and I feel very alone in this struggle.
By Carinn Jade

May 1, 2016 Culture

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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