Momma Said, “Let Them Go.”
I know it’s not easy when you’ve spent the last 18 years carting them to lessons and practices and looking over homework and softening the blow of a broken heart. But let them go. We raised them to leave us. That was the whole point.
“That’s What My Parents Did” is Not a Valid Parenting Plan
Every generation says it to excuse the questionable parenting decisions of the generation before, the choices that the younger generation would likely not make for their own children.
What if the Air Soft Gun School Suspension Wasn’t About Politics?
Let’s stop pointing fingers for a minute and look at where we all can make changes for what shouldn’t be a political issue at all, but a safety one.
New Study Cautions Moms Against Hovering Over Play
A new study from the University of Missouri found that the “more directive” (ahem, “helicoptery”) mothers are during play, the less engaged children were with them.
Back Away from Your College Kid and Put Your Phone Where I Can See it
Colleges have created Offices of Parent Services, designed to field concerns lodged by parents that I am certain my parents never even thought about.
Do Parents Have a Right to Be Proud of Their Kids?
Which makes me wonder: Which part of parenting really matters?
