Parenting Advice from Hell
(Update: This was written several years ago; I now have only one teenager left. And yes, the following is truer than ever.) This spring I...
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- Jun 15, 2014
- 2 min
So You Had a Bad Dad
I can imagine some who read my annual Father’s Day posts on social media may feel slighted in the Daddy-hood department. Of course you...
- Oct 7, 2013
- 3 min
On Being a Helicopter Mom of Free-Range Kids
(This post was written when my girls were small; half of them have left the nest and the other half are flapping their wings. I don't...
- Jun 16, 2013
- 2 min
Two Things My Dad Did Right
My dad did a lot of things right, but two of them made all the difference. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it weren’t for those two...
- Jan 4, 2013
- 3 min
How an Eggnog Disaster Saved My Relationship with My Daughter
Recently a friend was describing to me one of her saddest childhood memories. Every day she’d come home from school to an empty house and...
- Oct 31, 2012
- 2 min
He Said I'd Have a New Teenager in Five Minutes
Thanks, Dr. Leman, but sometimes I don’t feel I can wait until Friday to put an end to the cold distance and eye-rolling of a...
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