If I Have a Daughter
If I have a daughter
to share my hands with in tightly woven spaces…
I will tell her all of the do’s
and none of the don’ts.
All of the cans
and none of the can’ts.
Golden Parenting Moments: Tissues or glitter sometimes required.
There’s No Right Time (to Expand Your Family), Just Your Time
Despite the pressures I’ve seemed to encounter every day since my daughter was three-weeks old, I’m not ready to have another child. I’m not through loving my baby with all I got. She is my first, and factoring in my experiences with women and mothers in my life, I want to feel everything strongly as a new mom, and in the now with my daughter. I don’t want to miss a cut, a tear, a laugh, a milestone because I was preoccupied elsewhere.
A Letter to the Parents I Lost, Celebrating the Happiness I Found
Maybe my story doesn’t have to be about sadness and death. Maybe it can be the story of a girl who had great parents, was loved fiercely, and is brave enough to keep going after her world is rocked by loss and pain. Maybe my story is about having the audacity to hope.
Pet Ownership Revealed Our Child’s Determination
The novice teacher had originally thought that Brownie was a wonderful idea: teach responsibility, kindness, and what else? She couldn’t quite recall anymore, because making sure that the little thing was fed and watered over the weekends was starting to get old. It was time to allow some lucky child the opportunity to acquire a pet. Let their parents handle the smell.
The Christmas Lesson I learned from a Four-Year Old
As I sat at the stoplight thinking of the profound wisdom resonating from the backseat, it made me wonder exactly who is the teacher and who is the student
How the Wrong Change Led to a Moment of Childhood Wonder
When did we lose that childhood wonder? When do we go from curious to cynical? From thinking everything is possible, to thinking things are more impossible than probable? When does that change?
Why I Take an Annual Trip Without My Family
Childhood is short. But friendship, true friendship, is worth taking a pause from parenting from time to time. If nothing else, it helps teach children the importance of cultivating relationships that last beyond the time we have with them.
Childhood is Fleeting: Let Them Be Young
We’ve made childhood a race to adulthood under the guise of “enrichment.”
Mama Has Lyme
I stared at those two words: Lyme Disease. How could I begin to explain just how much having a disabled parent would impact my child’s school year?
A Non-Judgmental Approach to Raising a Screenwise Generation
Parents today have a unique opportunity to apply their lived experiences to the digital world our kids inhabit.