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When parenthood meets a parakeet: lessons in compassion and loss

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Modeling kindness for your child, you rush to PetSmart for provisions. By Rachael Holliday

August 22, 2024 Family

My partner has a dog, I’m trying to learn how to love him.

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Would I embrace the care of my own pet with more gusto? Tolerate its mess, its foibles—the way I do my own kids? By Lauren Apfel

July 19, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Learning how to forgive myself for a childhood accident

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I was 10. I loved my cat, Gizmo. And I killed him. By Michael Gentry

January 27, 2019 Family

After divorce, when a fish is not just a fish

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Perhaps the fish were feeble replacements for all that we had lost, but they were also hopeful things. By Samantha Shanley

March 29, 2018 Parenting Challenges
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