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.
Tag: parenting
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?
Three Minute Lesson in Bravery
The best lesson in bravery I could give my son.
He Knows Their Name: The Mom of a Transgender Teen Speaks Out
I am one of those people who has very strong feelings about naming children. When choosing names for my kids, I was very adamant that the names not be shortened, but that they go by the name given to them. Why give someone a name that you have no intention of using? That just seems […]
Our Voices Will Not Be Silenced
In 1988, I met Jesus on a muddy hillside in Pennsylvania. I had caught glimpses before, but there, with the smell of pine needles and the body odor of a few hundred unwashed humans, I saw him clearly and I fell in love. I had been raised in the Church, but it took a long […]
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 […]
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Breaths
When the nurse asked us if we’d like to hold our son after he was delivered, I had reservations. What if something was horribly wrong? Could I stand to hold the lifeless body of this person who just the day before had been joyfully squirming around inside of me? I told her that I just […]
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