“This will be my first Mother’s Day without my son,” I said sadly, on a recent visit to my nearly 80-year-old mother....
“Children should be seen and not heard.” That was one of the prevailing parenting tips of past generations. When I was a...
We have three generations of some pretty amazing women in my family. My mother raised six children, was the middle school secretary...
W hen I tell stories about my father from the old days, one of the most popular is about the time I broke...
It seems like we spend our kids’ childhoods preparing them for the dangers of the world. I remember learning about those dangers...
“Remember when my school supplies consisted of some folders, pencils and crayons?” my daughter said, laughing, as we laid out our cart...
When I first started having migraines, people were concerned. I was concerned. I was taken to the doctor, put in a dark...
Watching my teenage daughter and her friends as they navigate the world of changing bodies, fluctuating hormones, short tempers and self-esteem crises,...
When my kids were babies, I related to them as a mother; it was the only frame of reference I had. I...
I am not much like my father. Oh, there are some similarities—the tendency to yell when a child is about to toddle...