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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

My teen is not who he used to be, it’s hard

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We’ve had a rough time lately in ways that go beyond the ordinary awkward de-nesting of middle school. By Annie O’Brien

January 15, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

The friends I made in the waiting room

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We don’t want our boys to be “cured.” There is no cure; autism is a chronic state, like arthritis, or love. By Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan

October 7, 2019 Parenting Challenges

How to talk to our sons about guns and aggression

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My son plays Fortnite. I’m not worried he will grow up to be violent because of it; I’m worried how the toxic masculinity it portrays affects us all. By Sharon Holbrook

February 22, 2018 Culture

How to realize your son is not lazy

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Decades ago, boys who lacked motivation were called late bloomers. Today, we call them underachievers. By Adam Price

December 5, 2017 Books, Culture

My son wants to be a cheerleader

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Being an advocate for a cause in general is quite a separate thing from letting your own kid be different.
By Kimberley Moran

June 12, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Motherhood and Waiting: from boys to men

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All the years of doing and hoping, praying and sculpting—you wait to see if it worked.
By Lisa Romeo

April 11, 2017 Family

The 10 ways my sons and daughter are not so different at all

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Is my daughter a “tomboy” or a “girly girl”? She is neither and she is both.
By Lauren Apfel

March 22, 2017 Culture

The so-called simplicity of boys

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I can’t help but think ideas about simplicity mask ideas about masculinity, and what it is, and isn’t, okay to feel.
By Ashley Lefrak Grider

December 15, 2016 Culture
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