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The door slams. Again. Your teenager disappears into their room, and you’re left standing in the hallway wondering when exactly you became the enemy. They
Last week, Ellie asked if we could buy the fancy art set she saw at the craft store, the one with 120 markers in a
Most parents teach their kids basic life skills. How to tie shoes, say please and thank you, look both ways before crossing the street. These
I was folding laundry the other night, the never-ending pile that somehow regenerates the moment you think you’ve conquered it, when Ellie wandered over and
Lower-middle-class parents don’t have the luxury of solving every problem with money. They can’t hire tutors for every struggle or smooth over every disappointment with
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
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