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This is how it feels to parent through a miscarriage

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The sun was shredding us, both me and the stupid snow cone. By Mary Adkins

September 2, 2021 Parenting Challenges

5 lessons I’ve learned from managing my son’s food allergies

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The hard truth is that I can’t protect my child from everything. By Megan Hanlon

September 1, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

One mother’s quest for perfection as an OCD parent

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All my OCD has become focused on making unpredictable toddlers happy and I am exhausted. By Jenny Leon

May 25, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

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

I have OCD, how will it be as a parent?

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It’s both fascinating and frightening that my two-year-old son, Aksel, is starting to count. By Tommy Mulvoy

May 22, 2020 Parenting Challenges

What is your biggest parenting challenge right now?

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We asked, you answered. In three words.

May 9, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Explaining to my four-year-old what happens to bedtime kisses

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Kisses really mean love. When we kiss you goodnight, we told her, it leaves your cheek and travels straight into your heart. By Rosanne Ullman

May 8, 2019 Family

Sitting in the waiting room of the pediatrician with my teens

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The toddler parents were looking at me in wonder, as if they couldn’t believe their children would ever be old enough to go into the exam room alone. By Deborah Lindsay Williams

August 27, 2018 Family

What happens when your kid gets kicked out of preschool

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You speed through the five stages of grief or however many there are because you’re trying to wrap up a project at work and you don’t have time for this crap. By A.S. Callaghan

April 24, 2018 Parenting Challenges

What we neglect when the children are young

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Nobody told me while my house was falling apart that eventually I would start to see clearly again.
By Lauren Apfel

February 22, 2017 Family, Parenting Challenges

The so-called simplicity of boys

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I can’t help but think ideas about simplicity mask ideas about masculinity, and what it is, and isn’t, okay to feel.
By Ashley Lefrak Grider

December 15, 2016 Culture

How to wean your three-year-old with a cupcake

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I couldn’t let my child have carte blanche access to my body for as long as she saw fit, the way I had originally thought I would.
By Doña Bumgarner

September 20, 2016 Parenting Challenges

For the love of potty training

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I wondered if my daughter would grow up to hate me for forcing her to do things—like I hated my parents.
By Anna Gracia

September 12, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Seven and still sucking his thumb

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Seven years on, my son is still a sucker, thumb mostly, but also occasionally sleeves, zippers, the pointed snout of a stuffed animal.
By Daisy Alpert Florin

May 1, 2016 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges
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