parenting adolescents
April 30, 2009
- Terrific, witty new contest at Smith Magazine: can you write your memoir as a mother in just 6 words. I imagine that it's inspired by the Hemingway challenge that he could write a complete story in six words ("Baby shoes for sale. Never used." Or was that "baby crib"? Either way, a heartbreak, briefly said.) Of course if you have teenagers they'll complain that you could ...
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August 24, 2008
- As we prepare for the last day of vacation before the new school year (in my family’s case for the beginning of high school) I’d like to say hats off to all the parents who have gotten through another summer without homicide, suicide, or patricide. To all the moms who didn’t fling fireplace tools over the junk food ground into the upholstery and the dads who didn’t take off their belt ...
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