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5 Things I Want My Tween Daughter to Know About Dating
My 12-year-old daughter said the "B" word. No, not that one. The other one that has the same effect of stopping you in your tracks: Boyfriend. She would like permission to start dating. [Insert heavy...
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Black (Children's) Lives Matter: Why Is Our Suicide Rate So High?
The first time I thought about killing myself, I was eleven. I’d had some trauma in my life, unspeakable things that my tween self could not articulate. Pain that ran deep, seated into my soul. I could...
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How to Help Your Hurting Child (When Everything Isn't Going To Be Okay)
My 11-year-old daughter looks like she just lost her best friend. Probably because in a way, she has.Image: Steven Depolo via FlickrHer BFF from school is still very much alive, and she still wants to...
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10 Life Skills Every Teen Should Master Before Going To College
The youngest of our five is about to be a sophomore in high school this year. And as I was reminiscing about how fast these last 15 years have gone for her, I realized that I only have a few more years...
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Mom, When Can I Start Saying 'Crap'?
"Mom?" said my 9-year-old Sophie, looking up from her iPad game and glancing over at me with her big, brown eyes and a sheepish grin on her face."What's up?" I asked, girding myself for a request I...
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7 Parenting Lessons I Learned From Watching 'Inside Out'
Pixar's newest offering, Inside Out, is pretty darned amazing for the way it suits all ages, offering not just fun, but food for thought. While the audience is privileged to see what's going on in the...
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My Child Is Loving Sleep Away Camp But I'm Miserable Without Her
Dear Mouthy Housewives,My daughter left for sleep away camp a week and a half ago, and I am nauseous. I am just so sad. I feel like a part of me is missing. And I am paying for this experience! There...
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It's Official: I'm Vocally Fried
Recently I read Ann Friedman’s salty piece in New York Magazine on "vocal fry," a way of talking in which you draw out the end of sentences or words with a low, raspy, creaky sound that comes from the...
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Two Words Moms Should Say More Often (to Themselves and Each Other)
The other day, I told a mom friend I was hosting a sleepover. I confessed to her that I hardly ever let my daughters have sleepovers because I always freak out about what the girls will do and where...
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What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About How to Best Use Social Media
If you're a mom of tween girls (or not), chances are you've witnessed the growing popularity of Taylor Swift.Image: © Daniel DeSlover/ZUMA WireBorn in 1989, 25-year-old Taylor is captivating us on her...
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Internet Says #IStandWithAhmed After Texas Police Arrest 14-Year-Old For...
I have a 13-year-old son who loves science and engineering, and I'd be thrilled if he built a clock all by himself—and I'd hope his teachers would be, too. Unfortunately, that's not what happened on...
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Ahmed Mohammed: Another Black Boy Guilty Until Proven Guilty
This morning, I read the story of Ahmed Mohamed and his clock that he took to school and was arrested for suspicion of making a bomb and it's been bothering me all day. I can imagine that he packed...
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Parenting Redux: 12 Things I Would've Done Differently With My Kids
I am grateful for all that I have: amazing kids, wonderful husband, rewarding career, outstanding community. And I don’t regret things in my life. But I know if I could, I would go back and do some...
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Teenagers and the Cocoon Years
You may or may not know that I'm a proud mum of three, but if you were to flick back through some of my old blog posts you'd be forgiven for thinking there were only two special boys in my life. As...
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#Hollaback: Why I Talked to My Young Daughter About Street Harassment
My daughter A just turned 13. Even as a newborn, she embodied a quiet strength that seemed to float in her hazel eyes as she watched the world around her. It's a strength that, over the years, has been...
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Real Talk: 10 Things You Need to Know About Parenting a Teenager
I don't want to scare anyone yet to reach this wonderful phase of childhood or rein doom and gloom on the world of being the proud owner of a teenager, but I think that it's time there was some honesty...
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When Protecting Black Boys Is At the Cost of Black Girls
As I'm walking down the street, I witness a young couple getting into a verbal altercation and screaming match. They stop walking as the boy is trying to get the girls attention by holding on to her....
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Should Schools Ban Ethnic Halloween Costumes?
Every Halloween, there are blog posts and memes begging people not to turn someone else’s culture into a costume. You know… the Indian squaw, the geisha, the terrorist, the pimp or “ho”… really, pretty...
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Are Kids Ever Too Old to Trick-or-Treat?
I see you: finger hesitant on my doorbell and costume half-hearted.I see you: never alone, the safety in numbers, fearing a monster much different than that which scares ghouls a full head or more...
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5 Reasons Why Parallel Parenting Works Better Than Co-Parenting
We are not those folks.Those folks who are divorced and who have kids and who can actually mumble a "hello" to each other and actually mean it.Those folks who are divorced, remarried and invite each...
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