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Seeing my complete family in the night sky

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Next to Orion’s Belt are two dimmer stars. These are the babies I lost, one before each of my sons. By Julia Pelly

March 28, 2019 Parenting Challenges

On being a mother who still doesn’t know who she is

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I am a woman who sometimes needs a glass of wine or two in the evening, because even though her boys are no longer babies, five to six o’clock is still the witching hour. By Fiona Leary Boucher

March 7, 2019 Culture

On Prince, David Bowie, and losing Baby A

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Our daughter asked good questions—what about the other baby? Were we sad? Why did it happen? By Cynthia Nuara

February 27, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Yes, I know what it’s like to have a child with a delay

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We can try to compare miseries, heartaches, injustices but, in the end, it becomes impossible. By Diana Kupershmit

February 19, 2019 Parenting Challenges

How to rekindle love after kids? Try fresh limes.

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Our married life was no longer comfortable. There was no indulgence, no whispered promises of sweet dessert. By Hannah Grieco

February 13, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Q&A: What it’s like to be a single mother and a maid

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Stephanie Land’s daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter. In her debut memoir, she tells the story of how they survived.

February 6, 2019 Books, Culture

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

Adopting older children and the transition to the empty nest

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I wanted to believe that bringing teenagers into our life would make it easier to let them go. I was wrong. By Meredith Gordon Resnick

January 16, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

The ties that bind: coming to terms with my child’s gender

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I saw him as I thought he was, an elegant young man for whom I could buy something expressly male. How wrong I was. By Penny Wolfson

January 10, 2019 Culture

I had a miscarriage. This is my story.

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If my belly was round and full of baby, would I hate my body less? This body that betrayed me. By Brittany Wren

December 3, 2018 Parenting Challenges

21 hard things about motherhood my son might never know

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When he was two, I spent mornings stuffing tubes of penne with scrambled eggs to trick him into eating something other than pasta. By Marianna Marlowe

November 29, 2018 Family

Before and after my mother’s accident

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Time heals so much of what goes wrong in life, but the memory of what happened to Mum on that day still makes my body react. By Clover Stroud

November 12, 2018 Books

The little moments when we are hit by grief

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You will be in your slippers, making waffles, and suddenly remember that your mother is dead. By Brianne DeRosa

October 17, 2018 Parenting Challenges

When my son questioned his hyphenated last name

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He sees a choice down the road he doesn’t know how to make: how can he choose just one of his names to join with his wife’s? By Andrea Jarrell

October 4, 2018 Culture

The struggle to find work-life balance in academia

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Whether to have a baby before tenure is still one of the most pressing questions for female academics. By Sarah Rivett

September 25, 2018 Culture

When you won’t let your kid quit, but then you do

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One mother refused to let her daughter stop playing the flute. So what made her change her mind? By Daisy Florin

September 12, 2018 Family, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | I let my adult children live at home

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Why is living in mom’s basement such a terrible thing? By Fara Nizamani

August 20, 2018 Family

When you can only handle one child—and that’s okay

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How could I do it all again? The uncomfortable pregnancy, the brutal birth, the dark newborn days. By Joy Netanya

July 30, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Finding my creative work-life balance in a taco

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For me the taco had become an easy vector of choice, creativity, freedom, and therefore power. By Samantha Shanley

July 18, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | Why I let my young daughter wear a bikini

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I want my nine-year-old to carry herself without shame. By Daisy Alpert Florin

May 24, 2018 Culture, Parenting Advice

Perspective | Why I don’t let my young daughter wear a bikini

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I don’t care for any “sexy” clothing on little girls. By Sharon Holbrook

May 24, 2018 Culture, Parenting Advice

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

Why it’s okay to be a hands-off grandmother

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Unlike the majority of her peers, my mom does not consider being a grandma the single most important and satisfying aspect of her life. By Lauren Apfel

May 2, 2018 Family

Perspective | Thank you, Donald Trump, for making my teenager care

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Some lessons about social justice, no matter how terrible, are better learned by living than by lecture. By Francie Arenson Dickman

May 1, 2018 Culture, Family

Perspective | Why mothers need to stop calling themselves #blessed

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When we use #blessed, we are saying that we have been chosen for joy. The problem is what this word suggests in the context of suffering. By Liz Becker

April 26, 2018 Culture

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