"I'm sorry I can't go, Buddy. But, your brother really needs his sleep and sometimes Dad and I need to take turns taking you to games. We can't all go all the time."
While he is visibly saddened, my son...
social media screams "momming is the worst"
"the kids won't eat, the house is a mess, next time wine first?"
we paint a picture of our kids holding shields and wielding swords
pick up our phones, "like" another post that strikes a...
We lay the clothes out the night before.
Lunches are pre-packed, though admittedly, sometimes I fail at this.
More than one alarm is set.
I shower at night to save time.
I even pick out MY clothes the night before.
But morning after morning,...
My husband and I started dating in high school. We used to go to dinner at Applebee's every Thursday night. The first several months our parents had to drop us off and pick us up because we didn't even...
I was recently listening to a radio program in which a father asked his grown son why he hadn't told the parents about his long term struggles with depression. The son had difficulty answering the question; "I knew you...
Before I had kids I was a to-do list, task-oriented maniac. I remember in college I would bust out a workout, study session, a paper, volunteer at the soup kitchen, and attend class all before noon. I'm not kidding. ...
I won the argument. Maybe.
It had started two months earlier, over drinks with a friend.
It was one of those perennial parent questions. How much help should you give your kids? In my case, it’s my adult kids.
This argument began...
I’ve always been old for my age. When I was young, playing with my cousins, I’d tire of the silly play much earlier than them. I’d get serious. I’d get a little (or a lot) irritated with the laughing...
I was at the pediatrician. Again. It was the fourth time in a week and a half, and as I sat there trying to avoid reading the waiting room book about the dead dog, again. (Because nothing makes comforting a...
"Okay, buddy, did you learn anything tonight," I asked him as I climbed into his bed beside him. He lay there whimpering, the aftermath of the twenty-minute sob session that had just ensued after he was told to get...
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