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Books to gift the young readers in your life this holiday season

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10 titles that are sure to entertain and empower children and middle grade readers.

December 9, 2021 Books, Culture

As a NICU mother, it felt like I’d failed my newborn son

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Time stands still in the NICU. Days are long, nights are lonely, and you feel useless. By Tania Lorena Rivera

December 8, 2021 Family

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

It’s still not easy to explain COVID to a three-year-old

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As the pandemic has dragged on, he’s grown into a thoughtful person who hears everything and wants answers. By Maya Schenwar

November 24, 2021 Culture, Family, Parenting Advice

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

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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

Mothers are rethinking how to return to the workforce post pandemic

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The last 18 months have clarified one thing for me— my job was not worth what I had been giving up to keep it. By Laura Longhine

October 19, 2021 Culture

The dreaded question for women like me, what do you do for a living?

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There’s a certain emotional security that comes with having a glamorous job title. By Chiazo Obiudu

October 18, 2021 Culture

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

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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

10 of the best books about witches (and Harry Potter isn’t one of them)

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Lace up your boots, don your pointy hat, pick up your broomstick and come along for the ride. By Anaita Vazifdar-Davar

October 6, 2021 Books, Family

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 day I re-thought what to say, and not say, to tired mothers

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Somewhere in my garage there is a bin of all the tiny rubber boots my children used to wear. By Kim June Johnson

September 23, 2021 Family

The best books about kids who have lived through difficult times

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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

Q&A: Mom Brain

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Motherhood changes the way we think and feel about ourselves. We talked to Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco about how to cope with this upheaval.

September 9, 2021 Books

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

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

How I respond to adoption questions like, are they really yours?

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I get that people are curious when your children don’t look like you. By Diane Bonina

August 31, 2021 Family

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