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My 12-Year-Old Was Blackmailed for Nude Photos Via Kik Messenger
As a mom, and a communications professional in the technology space, I’ve heard some pretty scary stories about kids use of social media. Predators lurking on Facebook, bullying happening via Twitter,...
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Surviving Puberty for the Second Time
It all began on a mundane weeknight.She had just played in her first ballgame of the season. Supper was over and she had settled in at the dining room table for a game of chess with her daddy. I was in...
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I Knew I Loved You Before I Met You, but Some Days I Don't Like You Very Much
I hate fighting with my daughter.I mean, I really, really hate it. Yes, she's a teenager. Yes, I'm a periomenopausal woman. Those two things often collide with the force of a fifty megaton nuclear...
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5 Ways I Made My Daughters Cry in One Day
For as long as I have had children, people have commented about the hormones that were one day going to invade my home. I have always laughed it off, because it seemed so very far off in the distance....
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How Not to Be That Mom on College Move In Day
The college experience is a big deal for everyone in the family, it evokes change on every member of a household. The younger sibling who no longer shares the bathroom or has the comfort of knowing her...
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10 Things I Want My Daughter to Know About Beauty
I've been having a lot of conversations on looks and fashion with my ten-year-old daughter recently. She is not only at the age where she is beginning to notice these kinds of things, but is also...
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Why "You Look Like Your Mom" Is the Worst Thing to Say to a Teen Girl
It happens often. When I'm out with my daughter, someone invariably exclaims, “Well, aren't you just the spitting image of your mother?” Outwardly, my daughter smiles. To the stranger, she seems...
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What Should We Do About Our Teens' Drinking Problem?
My family is drowning. Specifically, my kids. I would like to save them, but I fear I am just making the situation worse. Anyway, they haven’t asked for my help but instead continue to want more.“Mom,...
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How You Can Freak Out Over Growing Pains: Osgood-Schlatter Disease
My ten-year-old started complaining about her knee about a month ago. Sometimes it was fine, and sometimes she dragged her leg around like it was someone else's, calling it her "bum knee" and ready to...
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5 Things Your High School Freshman Wants You to Know
A few weeks ago, on our last summer afternoon, my girls and I escaped the heat by heading to our local movie theater. As we stood waiting in line at the snack counter, my soon-to-be freshman took hold...
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It's Hard to Be the New Mom at School
It's September. The flip flops have been unceremoniously discarded in the corner, the bathing suits and beach towels safely stowed until next year, and the air is crackling with the excitement of this...
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5 Ways Homeschooling Made Me a Calmer Public School Parent
For our family, the daily schedule looks a tad different this new school year.A couple of years ago, we decided to homeschool our youngest daughter. Last year, we kept both girls at home. Sending them...
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5 Questions Moms of Girls Should Be Prepared to Answer
Parenting is all about preparation. As long as you realize you'll never be fully prepared.When kids are younger, preparation means making sure you can survive a two-hour trip out of your house. For me,...
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Surviving Homecoming By Teaching Teens Low-Key Can Be Better
I’m a scrooge when it comes to a lot of things: Valentine’s Day, Halloween, basically any event Hallmark tells me I need to be celebrating.I am not fun. It’s true. Ask anyone.I’m also a scrooge when it...
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6 Things You'll Regret Saying to Your Children
Do you ever feel guilt and regret for something that you've said to your child? The words that just came out of your mouth sounded as if they were from an alien being (and even more awful, perhaps like...
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Have I Been Savoring Parenting Moments Enough?
Imagine the Air Jordan logo. Now imagine it rotated 90 degrees to the right. That was me standing in front of the blackberry bush, except I wasn't doing anything with a basketball. I was reaching to...
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11 Important Tips for Parents When Your Child Comes Out
Step 1: Take a deep breath. OMG, right? Big news. Or maybe it wasn't. Maybe you suspected this was coming. But you should still breathe anyway because you need do that to keep being alive. So this step...
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A Letter to My Son's Future Girlfriend
Credit: niicksie2008.To the girl who will one day date my son: You are interested in someone very precious to me. My world turned right side up the day he came into my life and has never been the same...
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5 Important (but Random) Lessons Teens Need to Know
You thought you had a lot of lessons to teach your toddler? Well, I hate to break it to you, but potty training and spoon feeding are only messy in the literal terms when it comes to the lessons you...
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Friday's School Shooting Happened in My Small Town
"Mom, there's been a shooting at MP. Someone is dead and we don't know who the shooter is."I was just leaving my Zumba class Friday morning when my son called me with those words. MP is...
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