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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

Q&A: Motherwell talks to best-selling author Jessica Lahey

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Her new book offers an honest and straightforward guide for preventing substance abuse in children.

April 7, 2021 Books

I was a mom who couldn’t stop drinking. But then I did.

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I heard the baby crying again, I didn’t get up. I was too hungover. By Victoria Vanstone

May 18, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

Struggling to create a new life after my divorce

Used wine bottles lined up outside on a windowsill
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On Friday nights, I would rush through my daughter’s bedtime books, slurring words and skipping full pages. By Shelley Mann Hite

January 14, 2020 Culture

Seven sneaky signs your teen might be using drugs

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Did my son really need a backpack every time he left the house? By Sherri Sacconaghi

October 24, 2019 Family, 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

Do I deserve to be celebrated on Mother’s Day?

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I am the mother who was drunk the morning of the first birthday party you were invited to. By Janelle Hanchett

May 8, 2018 Parenting Challenges

To the little girl on the train whose mother is on drugs

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As someone with a son dead because of heroin, I couldn’t look away.
By Bill Williams

August 28, 2017 Parenting Challenges

The blurred boundaries of mothering an addict

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When you’re a parent, you have to believe that no matter what your child does or says they still deserve to be loved.
By Erika Sauter

April 26, 2017 Parenting Challenges

How to break a bone and heal a mother

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After surgery, a mother comes to terms with the reality that a clean house is not the same as a loving home.
By Leslie Kendall Dye

August 16, 2016 Parenting Challenges
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