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friendship

My toddler talks to bagels. Will he be able to talk to other kids?

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He’s been out of daycare for nearly a year, but he has befriended the couch. By Maya Schenwar

March 18, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

To my friend in need, I’m here for you

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Look up, look around and listen. Here I am. Down the street or a phone call away. By Lisa Michelle

February 26, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Accepting my mom friendships for what they are

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What brings this group of mothers together beyond the common thread of parenthood and our kids’ friendships? By Lauran Bell

February 5, 2020 Culture

How much time does it take to make a friend?

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If the secret to friendship is hours logged, mothers of school-age children have a distinct advantage. By Michelle Riddell

November 14, 2019 Culture

How my two very different playgroups saved me

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The truth is I dreaded my Friday playgroup as much as I craved it. I stood apart from the other mothers in ways I couldn’t quite communicate or change. By Laura G. Owens

November 6, 2019 Culture, Family

The importance of tending to friendships

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As parents of older kids, socializing with other moms was apparently no longer part of the job description. By Anne Helena

October 30, 2019 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Helping my son grieve the loss of a friend

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How exactly could I break this news to a kid who already went to bed every night scared of death to the point of tears? By Tanya Mozias Slavin

October 10, 2019 Parenting Challenges

The importance of friendship after divorce

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The hardest thing about divorce, I’ve found, is not the being alone. It’s the being alone when most of the people you know and love have a first port of call that isn’t you. By Lauren Apfel

October 8, 2019 Culture

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

On the anniversary of my friend’s son’s death

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I sent you a bowl of black stones because of the hardness of loving a child for exactly who he is. By Brianne DeRosa

January 24, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Writing my college essay, thirty years later

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Your friends from college may be the best you ever have, guard those relationships like gold. By Francie Arenson Dickman

November 22, 2017 Obstacles, Parenting Challenges

For my Facebook friend who is in pain

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We connected through the magic of the internet. Her son was in crisis. Could I help?
By Brianne DeRosa

September 6, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Choosing to have children, choosing not to

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Motherhood has become so consuming to me that I find it hard not to project onto others a desire for the sense of purpose it offers.
By Lauren Apfel

August 31, 2017 Culture, Parenting Challenges
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