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My Husband Is A Great Big Brother To Our Son
My husband knocks on the car window, and our son turns as he’s walking toward the school. My husband waves; my son waves back, then turns toward the school again.He takes a couple steps, and my husband...
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I Wish I Never Told Her To Hurry
She turned sixteen yesterday.She's no longer the sweet chubby-faced baby I knew so well. I knew every inch of her, in the knowing way of mothers, from the curls that swooped around her curving ears to...
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Are You There, Mom? It's Me With An Awkward Question
The book Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume, who recently celebrated her 77th birthday, is the reason behind my first “sex” talk with my mother.I don’t remember how old I was, maybe...
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Why I Told My Daughter She Didn't Have to Go to College
Students in class photo via Shutterstock."I'm not sure I want to go to college," my daughter said to me. I guess the look on my face made it pretty clear what I thought of that, and she hastily amended...
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Behind Every Great Kid Is A Mom Who's Pretty Sure She's Screwing Them Up
This past week I received some pretty amazing compliments about my older teenage children. It means a bit more because... well, I'm closer to the finished product with them. It's almost time for me to...
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I Took My 15-Year-Old Son to See The Vagina Monologues
I know I have mentioned it before, but for those of you who are new, I am a college student at Old Dominion University. Yes, I am almost 50. Yes, I am working on my undergraduate degree. What can I...
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Don't Let the Hamster Fool You
The question: How fast could your child's hamster actually run if they ever accidentally got away from you?The answer: Like a bat out of hell.Here's the culprit: Honey, my 12 year old daughter's long...
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When Should You Let a Girl Start Shaving Her Legs?
People have opinions about when to let a girl start shaving her legs. My almost-eleven-year-old daughter casually asked about it earlier this month, and so I did what any normal mother would do: I...
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A Really Long Downhill Toward Freedom
Ben gave me a 20-week Fitness Challenge which will take us right through summer and hopefully become so habit forming that we never stop doing a little something every day that is good for us.Together,...
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#ToTheGirls: What Do YOU Want Girls to Know?
What do you wish your younger self knew? What do want your daughter to know? What do you want girls to know?I knew that young adult author Courtney Summers had a new book coming about shame. And how...
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The Worst Prom Dresses of 2015
Gather around, my friends. It's our favorite time of year: bad prom dress season! While we love the girls inside the dresses, we feel it's our duty to guide today's youth in the area of formalwear. The...
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Day of Silence: What If Someone Had Stood Up for My Trans Daughter?
"Slurs," my husband told me angrily over the phone."They're commenting on her pictures with slurs."Our daughter's phone was sitting on the table next to him when hateful anti-LGBT comments began...
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I Gave My Daughter Her First Joint
[Editor's Note: Today is National Pot Smoker's Day. As more and more states legalize marijuana, situations like this will just keep happening. What's your opinion? Tell us in the comments. - Rita]I...
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What to Do When Your Tween Wakes Up Grumpy
Dear Mouthy Housewives,My pre-teen daughter wakes up so grumpy every morning. It ruins the whole morning before she leaves for school. I miss the days when she was little and woke up singing. Any ideas...
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Ask First: How to Respect Your Child's Privacy Online
There was a time on my blog when I used pseudonyms for the girls. Bridget was known as Boo (my pet name for her) and Abby was Allie (after her then favorite TV character). I was so unsure about this...
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How Kate Winslet Taught Me I'm Not Showing My Daughters the Right Things...
Recently, I’ve started to see my daughters’ bodies changing. Not quite puberty yet, but a little rounder here, a little curvier there. Yep, it’s almost time to have “the talks” in my house.I’ve done my...
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It's Almost Time for Summer Break! Oh No!
It is almost that time. The school year is winding down. My favorite time of year is right around the corner. We are sick of homework and school projects. Let's wrap this thing up and bring on SUMMER!I...
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Mom of Teen With Down Syndrome Cautiously Celebrates DS Model Madeline Stuart
"I don't want Down syndrome," my 12-year-old daughter, D'Andra, told me one hot summer day. "I want it to go away, Mom," she said. I shook my head and told her that I couldn't tell an extra monochrome...
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How My Teenage Daughter Taught Me to Be a Feminist
What the hell is Feminism anyways?I am a child of the 70’s. Born at the end of the Vietnam War and at the edge of some sort of sexual revolution. Feminism was a word I have always known, but it’s had...
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What Happened When a School Attempted to Ban a Teen's Art
In the end, social justice prevailed over painful irony. In the final hours before the launch of a Connecticut high school art show, a gifted, charismatic senior had her project, a statement on body...
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