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There was a moment last spring when Ellie asked if she could play at the park with her friends without me hovering nearby. She wanted
Some words don’t fade with time. You can be forty, fifty, even sixty years old—successful, stable, miles away from your childhood home—and still hear certain
Last Saturday at the farmers’ market, my mom tried to convince me – again – that Milo desperately needed a baby blanket warmer. “But he’ll
For years, I thought there was something wrong with me. I’d accept invitations with genuine enthusiasm, mark them on my calendar, and then as the
I’ll be the first to admit that every generation thinks they had it tougher than the next. But watching the pendulum swing from one extreme
I was thirty before I realized that the voice in my head telling me I wasn’t good enough wasn’t actually mine. It was my mother’s.
Last week, Ellie came home from preschool with tears streaming down her face. She’d built an elaborate block tower that toppled over, and when I
Milo’s second birthday is coming up, and my mother-in-law has already asked me three times what he “needs.” The truth? He doesn’t need anything. Our
Parenting is full of moments where you’re convinced you’re screwing everything up. You lose your patience. You handle something poorly. You compare yourself to other
Every so often, usually when I’m rinsing soil out of Ellie’s socks or prying a wooden spoon out of Milo’s grip before he declares it
Raising kids who can bend without breaking… isn’t that what we are all hoping for? I think about this a lot when I am watching
Nobody hands you a manual when your baby is born. You’re suddenly responsible for shaping a whole human being, and the weight of that can
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