The internet says this stage can last weeks or months or more. You think to yourself, those experts must be wrong because I can’t take another day. By Samantha Gratton
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Parenting, relationships, work-life balance. Here are your stories (in 100 words or less) about what you’ve learned in the pandemic.
We sat together and sang and laughed and forgot for the moment what was happening in the world around us. By Amy Litzenblatt
Quarantine has forced me to turn off my snowplow parenting, otherwise I’d spend my entire day cleaning. By Andrea Askowitz
She screams with a primal, gut-shriek: “I hate math! Math is stupid!” By Melissa Savoie
Even though he’s grown, my son’s hugs mean more to me now than they ever have. By Dawn Gerber
I don’t allow myself any excitement, not after 2016, but I allow him his. By Caroline Horwitz
Was Tamir Rice also an only child? Did he also make cookies with his mother? By Jill Moffett
In the Before Time, I wouldn’t have allowed Call of Duty in our house, much less allowed him to play it for hours on end. By Deborah Williams
With all the changes in 2020, one thing has remained constant: being bullied is a traumatic experience for kids. By Lori Orlinsky
I am carrying my own maternal fears right now and also those of my patients. By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco
Last spring, when we finally gave up the dream of returning to school, I held onto September as my North Star. By Steven Newmark
You might love it. Maybe not every day, but there will be moments. By Laura Catherine Hanby Hudgens
Parenting, relationships, work-life balance. Your pandemic self-growth in 100 words or less.
Our kids had met only a handful of times, but now all of a sudden we were living together as a family. By Lauren Apfel
It’s been a long, slow road to finding a balance between supporting others and supporting myself. By Yvonne Spence
Mom and Dad never sat us down and told us he had MS. Or maybe they did and I don’t remember because I was just a kid thinking about snacks. By Megan Jean Sovern
Start with “shitty first drafts.” We don’t curse in our house, so it was a big deal when I taught my son this one. By Wendy Kennar
Nothing epitomized the drudgery and boredom of those early parenting years quite like an afternoon at the park. By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco
On their first day of homeschooling a punch was thrown over whose turn it was to use the laptop. By Sylvia Carr Clebsch
Where once I was gatherer, now I am hunter. Acquiring food to feed my family has taken on new significance. By Susannah Q. Pratt
According to specialists, a 12-week delay won’t make the difference between someone having a baby or not. By Mimi Sager Yoskowitz
Obviously, a pandemic is an awful reason to decide to have another child. But that doesn’t stop me from thinking about it. By Amanda Gibson
We have plenty of coffee in our cupboard. What’s not in bloom has buds, promises, waiting. By Kara Gebhart Uhl