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Catherine Newman

Motherwell’s favorite books of 2020

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Motherwell features twelve of our favorite reads of the year. Memoir, advice, fiction, and more!

December 22, 2020 Books

Excerpt: How to help your teen be a (functioning) person

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Catherine Newman’s wonderful new book offers a guide to 65 hugely useful, super-important skills for teens and tweens.

May 19, 2020 Books, Culture, Family

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

Yes, parenting is hard. But it gets better.

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One day infants and diaper bags and hemorrhoids and boobs won’t be hanging off of your person like you’re a cross between a human mobile and a Sherpa. By Catherine Newman

October 24, 2018 Family

What can I do about my teen messing up at school?

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Catherine Newman offers advice to a grandmother, who is raising her 15-year-old grandson, about the reality of teenagers and conflict.

February 26, 2018 Parenting Advice

What can I do about my tween’s snotty tone?

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Catherine Newman answers this question (and more!) in her next installment of Motherwell’s advice column for the parents of teens. Her kids weigh in too!

January 9, 2018 Parenting Advice

Motherwell’s most popular posts of 2017

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Motherwell features parenting essays on culture, family life, obstacles and the process of overcoming them. We are excited to announce this year’s ten most read!

December 14, 2017 Culture, Family, Parenting Challenges

What can I do to protect my teen from a toxic friendship?

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Catherine Newman’s next installment of Motherwell’s not-so-ordinary advice column for the parents of teens.

November 28, 2017 Parenting Advice

Is it okay for my 14-year-old son to hug me all the time?

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Catherine Newman’s not-so-ordinary advice column for the parents of teens.

October 30, 2017 Parenting Advice

Night walks with my teens (who are about to leave me)

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I wish the kids could stay this age forever—on the cusp of leaving, but never leaving—only I know it would not end well. By Catherine Newman

May 30, 2017 Family

Motherwell’s most popular posts of 2016

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Motherwell publishes provocative, evocative essays on all aspects of the parenting experience. Here are our most-read pieces from 2016.

December 20, 2016 Culture, Family, Parenting Challenges

A few of Motherwell’s favorite parenting books

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Our carefully curated selection of must-read parenting books from the last few years.
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December 12, 2016 Books

The boring tragedies of parenthood

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I am shocked still by the parenting moments that break my heart.
By Catherine Newman

October 27, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

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
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