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You don’t mean to be. You try really hard. You love them so much. You want everything to…
It would be wonderful if someone could tell you exactly what to do in every situation and how…
hen our kids mess up we say: Aren’t you a little old for that? And we have all…
The double standards are revealing and also a little sad. No one would ever refer to a mother…
We all feel a little self-conscious about it. Our kids don’t behave as well as we’d like. They…
Of course, you want to do everything you can for them. You want to help them. You want…
The tantrum. The whining about going to school. The punch that’s thrown. The slipping grades. The sneaking out….
These are challenging, uncertain times, no question. What’s at the root of it? How did we get here?…
You want them to be safe—that’s understandable. You are busy and tired from work and life—that’s perfectly reasonable. So yeah, loading up everyone in the…
It would be wonderful if they never got upset. If they never were tempted. If they never felt like breaking the rules or breaking stuff….
Our parents weren’t everything we needed. Maybe it was more time we needed. More understanding. More kindness. More support. More love. More just them having…
George Dewey was a kid who got in trouble a lot. His father was always bailing him out. Finally, as a last ditch effort, he…
The bike was nice. So was the trip to Disneyland. So was being able to graduate from college without student debt. They appreciated the presents….
The career opportunities are hard to turn down. It’s hard in the moment, as we’ve talked about, to be able to think too far into…
You didn’t like rules when you were a kid. Your parents had too many. Your school was a prison of pointless, arbitrary ones—how you could…
There are lots of ways to read, ways that have improved the experience and opened up the world of literature to people who otherwise would…
You know your kids are good. You’ve seen their sweetness, their cuteness since the beginning. You’ve seen them try. You’ve seen them feel shame when…
You know now how brief it is. What a fleeting, wonderful thing it is. Youth. How flexible you were then. How much energy you had….
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