What Self-Harm and Passover Have in Common
This post contains graphic images. If you or someone you know are locking yourself in the bathroom and making little cuts on your sweet...
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- Feb 7, 2016
- 3 min
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...
- 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...
- Apr 12, 2013
- 2 min
What Do You Do with Fifteen "Free Minutes?"
The other night I was waiting for dinner to finish cooking and realized I had fifteen unspoken-for minutes to do with as I chose. Too...
- 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...
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