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What it means to be the mother of a black teenage son right now

two black boys sitting in the surf
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I’ve been sitting with the reality that this world will never see my son’s heart before they see his color. By Kai McGee

June 1, 2020 Culture

When lost loved ones are still with us at the holidays

red berries in focus on a winter branch
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We pull ornaments from boxes labeled in my mother’s loopy cursive, giving our tree the same homespun look hers always had. By Mary Janevic

December 19, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Poetry | Flowers in odd numbers

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If my mother is not here, who will show up to bring me flowers when I am vacuumed out,
cells gone, clean, neat, dark, unseeded? By Emily Franklin

November 13, 2019 Family

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 give love as a mother when you are an unloved daughter

Silhouette of a woman hugging herself against a pink and purple sunset
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“Why is she like that?” my son asks. I hesitate. There’s no denying my mother’s passive aggressive disdain towards me. By Elizabeth Maria Naranjo

September 4, 2019 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

Mama’s old-school parenting

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Without saying so, Mama let us know we kids could sometimes rock her world, but we couldn’t be her world.
By Ylonda Gault Caviness

August 1, 2016 Books
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