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The Curse Takes Effect – Let the Gloating Begin
For centuries, or so I hear, mothers have placed upon the heads of their daughters The Curse. I’m talking about the doom and damnation of sorts that mothers pass along to their daughters, swearing that...
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Featured Bloggers: Grown and Flown
This week’s featured blog is Grown and Flown, Parenting from the Empty Nest. Grown and Flown is the joint blog venture of two wonderful ladies, Mary Dell Harrington and Lisa Heffernan. Long-time PTA...
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The B Word
Years ago, when my daughter was in middle school, I came home from work and found her looking through the B volume of the encyclopedia. Yes, this was before Wikipedia. She flipped the pages with a...
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10 Things Not to Say to Your Adult Children
Experience from 24 years of parenting has taught me what to say and what not to say to my adult children. After all they have been around so long and are fully worldly wise and they don’t need to be...
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Disney With Teens
I feel like I am one way to the world and a different way with my kids. A friend told me she thought I must be one of those cool, laid-back moms who never yelled. My four kids would die laughing if...
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An Ordinary Father
For many years, I was a little sad and wistful whenever Father’s Day rolled around because inevitably, there was some article in the newspaper that celebrated a bunch of dads doing ordinary things for...
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Father’s Day – But Where Is He?
Beautiful things can break my heart. And they are everywhere. Impossible to avoid. A father crouching down and tying the hood on his daughter’s winter jacket. A child sitting on her father’s shoulders,...
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Is It Time We Apologize For How We Raised the Kids?
Image swiped off After the Kids Leave Today on Coffee with Chloe, I had the great privilege and fun of having humor writers, and parenting veterans, Wendy and Karen Irving from After the Kids Leave, as...
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Parenting With Eyes Wide Open – Advice For New(er) Parents
Photo: Thinkstockphotos.com Few parents admit to regrets about having had children. However, Isabella Dutton, a 57 year old British mother did just that in a brutally honest article published by Mail...
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I Will Be There For You Again
Thinkstockphotos.com I get that you think that you never want to have kids. I get that they look like a lot of hard work, and you don’t really like small children. I know that you cannot even imagine...
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Repeat After Me…NO!
Photo Thinkstockphotos.comt “Go ask Pam…she’ll do it!” I am certain this phrase was said often around our school when I was in my thirties and forties. In fact, I must have had a sign on my back…ASK...
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Parenting Tips! 11 Ways to Drive Your Teenager Nuts
Photo Thinkstockphotos.com Today’s topic: how to drive your teenager completely bull-goose loony, in just a few simple steps (without receiving a phone call from Child and Youth Services or your local...
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How to Choose a Husband – a Mother’s Advice
Photo Thinkstockphotos.com Dearest Daughter, It was wonderful having you home over the holidays and finally getting to spend time with your very sweet boyfriend. Forgive me for being such a mom here,...
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How Being Mom is Like the Department of Motor Vehicles
Photo StaceyGustafson.com After taking my son to get his permit at the DMV, I said to myself, “Hey, this place feels like home.” Everyone is always mad at you. “If you don’t have an appointment, you’re...
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Mom the Fixer
Photo Thinkstockphotos.com When your adult children come to you with challenges, big and small, do you immediately leap into action like Super Mom, taking charge, and quickly coming up with a solution?...
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8 Things I’m Telling My Daughters About Life
Photo Thinkstockphotos.com Recently, we had a milestone in our house that made me realize that our girls aren’t babies anymore. I know they will always be “babies” in my heart but the reality is – that...
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Great Parenting or Cabbage Patch Crazy?
I should have listened to my husband. He said we should leave at 6:30am. I said there was no point in leaving that early because Tattered Cover doesn’t open until nine; I’d checked the website. He...
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The World’s Oldest Room Mom
Valerie Hoff, who is sharing her experience here on Generation Fabulous as she battles breast cancer, is taking a week off from that topic to talk about being a mom. Valerie’s sons, first day of...
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Open Adoption Information from Lori Holden
Lori Holden is a writer, mom of two, and the author of The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption, along with her daughter’s birth mother, Crystal Haas. Lori was one of Parenting magazine’s 2010 “Must-Read...
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10 Ways to be a Good Mother-in-Law
Photo courtesy Suzie Mitchell Being a mother-in-law is a touchy position. Being a mother-in-law to a daughter-in-law is akin to being an alien. No one can really assess your relationship; and no matter...
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