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Compliment my kid and I just don't know what to do. I've worked a long time to figure out how to accept compliments on my own behalf, but even with best friends and supportive strangers, there is [...]

We’re all worried about it.  Bad parenting. Screwing up our kids. If it weren’t such a sad obsession for most of us parents, it would almost be laughable, the things we worry about.  “If I make [...]

Tackle football is a mother's nightmare. My thirteen-year-old son plays tackle football. It's especially horrific when the combined weight of his parents is less than that of most of his [...]

I was at Target the other day. (Seriously, 80% of my stories start this way.) Anyway, I was at Target waiting while the checker ran to pick something up for me. I was just standing there with my [...]

  I recently found out that my daughter's dentist has a child of her own who's had multiple cavities. I actually did a little dance in my head when I heard that. (I really had some sweet [...]

I'm writing a letter to all those montage commercials where the kid grows up in thirty seconds and the parent is a blubbering mess at the end. This is what my letter would say: "Psst, stop it." [...]

It wasn’t my finest moment in parenting. My actions embarrassed my son and made him cry on his bike, right there in the middle of the street. All things considered, I thought he needed me to prod [...]

It was my first father-son prank phone call... sort of. Our local basketball team was up by 15 points in an NBA finals game, and we were loving it. I felt randomly inspired to look up a random [...]

Liars.  We’re all liars if we say we’re ready to become parents. We can never know everything we need to know to prepare for that moment.  Let this list of 10 Things You Should Know Before [...]