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What happened when my 20-year-old son became a single parent

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At 42, I’d gone from newlywed to grandma. And no, it didn’t feel like a blessing. By Rica Lewis

January 5, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Why I don’t want to tell my 14-year-old the truth about Santa

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With an IQ of 70, I don’t think he has the capacity for figuring it out on his own. By Laurie Foos

December 23, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Why Christmas cookies are bittersweet to my brother and me

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In our small town everyone talked about everyone else’s business, but no one talked to us about why our mom was sick. 
By Elizabeth Creaswick

December 21, 2020 Parenting Challenges

The holidays are here, but my mother is not

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I order turkey, I plan to bake pies. The tears make my head pound but they will not fall. By Brianne DeRosa

December 16, 2020 Parenting Challenges

When Jewish kids think they are missing out on Christmas

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Our children have a thorough understanding of their culture. And yet, and yet the magic of Christmas beckons them. By Alla Umanskiy

December 15, 2020 Parenting Challenges

The pandemic made me a private school mom

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We’re not cut from private school cloth, but we’d also reached our breaking point. By Amy Paturel

December 7, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why holiday food donations are so important to me

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My family used to be just like the ones who are going to benefit from the food drive at my children’s school. By Megan Hanlon

November 24, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

This is Jeopardy! How Alex Trebek influenced my mother’s life

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While life had taken people from her, Alex was dependable, he showed up every Monday through Friday. By Felicia Scarangello

November 19, 2020 Culture

How pandemic life is like life with a newborn

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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

November 17, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

My daughter is bald. This is how I taught her to love herself.

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In the beginning, we relied on hats to shield Rosie from unwanted stares as we hoped the hair loss would be temporary. By Paula Quinn

November 11, 2020 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

This is how I hurt my kids by helping them

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Quarantine has forced me to turn off my snowplow parenting, otherwise I’d spend my entire day cleaning. By Andrea Askowitz

November 2, 2020 Parenting Challenges

What happened when my daughter questioned my relationship with food

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She thinks when I say things like “balanced diet” what I really mean is “don’t eat sugar, it’ll make you fat.” By Lizabeth Sjaastad

October 14, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Why I don’t like the phrase “mommy brain”

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Behind every “mommy brain” story, there’s a fuller picture. Modern motherhood makes impossible demands. By Nicole Graev Lipson

September 21, 2020 Family

Bullying in the age of remote learning

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With all the changes in 2020, one thing has remained constant: being bullied is a traumatic experience for kids. By Lori Orlinsky

September 3, 2020 Culture, Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

A recipe for learning how to accept your body

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Step Three: Layer 2 healthy parents and 1 naturally skinny sister. By Amye Archer

August 26, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

As a psychologist, this is how back to school anxiety affects me

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I am carrying my own maternal fears right now and also those of my patients. By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco

August 24, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Cancer taught me you don’t need to be a perfect mom

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My daughter was born four weeks after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. By Jenny Leon

August 10, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

What it means to be a food allergy mom

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What if you are the best mother you can be and it’s still not enough to save your child? What if one mistake is the fatal bite? By Lauren Weiss

July 23, 2020 Parenting Challenges

What have you learned about yourself during the pandemic?

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Parenting, relationships, work-life balance. Your pandemic self-growth in 100 words or less.

July 15, 2020 Culture

This is what happened to my long-distance relationship in the pandemic

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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

July 9, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Letting go of the emotional labor of cooking right now

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It’s been a long, slow road to finding a balance between supporting others and supporting myself. By Yvonne Spence

July 8, 2020 Culture, Family

Why I used to hate taking my kids to the park

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Nothing epitomized the drudgery and boredom of those early parenting years quite like an afternoon at the park. By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco

June 12, 2020 Culture

Sibling relationships are powerful, in lockdown and out

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On their first day of homeschooling a punch was thrown over whose turn it was to use the laptop. By Sylvia Carr Clebsch

June 9, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

I was a mom who couldn’t stop drinking. But then I did.

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I heard the baby crying again, I didn’t get up. I was too hungover. By Victoria Vanstone

May 18, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

Things I am grateful for right now

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We have plenty of coffee in our cupboard. What’s not in bloom has buds, promises, waiting. By Kara Gebhart Uhl

May 1, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

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