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Kids Are Really Great Preservationists
You may not have known it, but this week is National Preservation Week. It’s not a very well known holiday, but parents actually celebrate it all the time. That’s because kids are great at preservation. I’m not talking about the kind of preservation that looks like...
What I’d Say to My Kids If I Could
I’m a good parent. That means that when my kids are being completely unreasonable and losing their minds about how their soccer socks weren’t washed the last time I did laundry and they don’t have any blue socks left and blue is their favorite color and they CANNOT go...
Kids Will Never Let You Forget You Have Kids
Nothing makes me realize how much I miss my boys when they’re at school like a holiday or a bad weather day, when they get to wake up at 6 a.m., even though there’s no school, and hang out with me all day. I’m not even being sarcastic (yet). They’re really cool kids,...
All the Cool Kids Have Allergies
We live in a much different world than we used to. This is a world where kids are kept close to home and parents call out other parents and, also, everyone and their dog has a food allergy. It’s become the cool thing to be a kid with allergy. At least according to my...
The Truth About Twins: They’re Anything But Easy
People are fascinated by twins. When my twins were young, people would stop me in the middle of the grocery store so they could touch the faces of these boys who looked exactly alike. And now that they’re 4, not much has changed. Most of the time those people who stop...
How to Make a Little Girl Question Her Worth
Every month I sit with a beautiful group of ladies and discuss our book of the month and, mostly, our lives. We eat chocolate and drink a little wine and sort through all the things that have happened to us in the stretch between the last book club meeting and this...
How About We Stop Trying to Tell Each Other How to Parent?
My younger sister is about to have her birthday, so lately I’ve been thinking about all the things I love about her. I know not everyone has a good relationship with their sisters, but I consider my sister a best friend. She knows everything about me. She can tell...