Why I Don’t Want Your Mother’s Day Well-Wishes
Moms of LGBTQ kids don’t want your well-wishes on Mother’s Day when you conspire against our kids the rest of the year.
Category: Parenting
My First Pride
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Giving Your Child to the Devil Invites the Devil Closer
If the fruits of your actions are death, how can you claim to be following God?
Loving My Kids Shouldn’t Require Bravery
Is it really brave to do something that comes naturally?
Caring for Yourself as You Parent After a Trump Election
Caring for yourself as a parent following the Trump election.
4 Things To Know If Your Child Comes Out To You
There are lots of posts about responses to hypothetical coming out. But what about when it really happens? Four things to know if your child comes out.
To the Mamas of Black Boys
To the Mamas of Black Boys, I don’t know how you do it. How you look fear in the face every morning and go on in spite of it. I get it a little bit – every mama of boys does. We all have fears about parenting these future men. Are we raising them to […]
Broken Family, Whole Family
I was texting with another friend who went through a divorce recently. We were talking about holidays and how much it sucks sorting through the details of pick-ups and drop-offs and all of that yuck. And she texted, “I don’t feel the ‘broken family’ thing usually, but I do at the holidays.” I know what […]
What To Expect When Your Friends Are Expecting…And You Aren’t
When I was pregnant a decade ago with my first batch of kids, I had lots of friends who were going through the same thing. We experienced pregnancy cravings together, enjoyed one another’s baby showers, shared the good and bad advice that we received, called each other in the wee hours to cry about our crying […]
Cankles and Fragile Joy
It’s just 9:30 in the morning, and I can already tell that by the time I get home tonight after teaching, my ankles are going to disappear into my calves. They’re not swollen yet, but it’s coming. Because when you’re thisclose to forty and you’re thisclose to delivering your fifth child, you just know these […]
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