Category: Parenting
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Daughter, meet Mr. Sandusky
Every now and then I trip over a news story and I get stuck on it. I read everything I can on it. I become sort of embarassingly well-versed on the backstory — which I don’t quite realize until I’m talking about it with someone and they give me a look and ask, “How do…
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I sold my kid short
Last Friday. Me in my daughter’s school gym. Ready to bust into a million scattered pieces all over the room from nervous energy. My little girl was going to sing in the school talent show. By herself. She’d worked on the song “Make it Shine” by Victoria Justice for weeks. I knew she was ready.…
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Dear Dads: Mother’s Day is tomorrow. Don’t screw it up.
Dear Fathers, Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. (I am just going to take it as a given that you knew that all on your own.) We need to talk, fellas. First, let me start by thanking you for your various contributions to child-rearing. I don’t know you all, but my guess is that you’ve enhanced your…
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Confessions of an all-grown-up shy child
Yes, people. It’s true. I was shy child. Painfully shy. People who have only known me as an adult have a very hard time believing this. But it’s true. In fact, when I was small I was so shy that I would wrap myself around my mother’s leg and hide my face if anyone tried to…
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The Giant Man-Baby Phenomenon
Good God, people. Divorce is RAMPANT in my world the last few years. I am one of the happiest divorced people I know and even I’ll tell you this: Divorce sucks more than Jenna Jamison on a comeback tour. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. While there are many reasons for divorce, I keep noticing…
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The Single Momma Sorority
I haven’t showered since Thanksgiving (yes, of 2011, smartasses). I showered that morning, then I took a pass the next day as the kidsters and I were just planning a day of bouncing around the greater suburban Philadelphia area visiting cousins. Then later that night … the cough. The evil cough. The ex took the…