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Teen Week:: The Process of Adolescent Development
Being a teenager is tough. This period in a young person’s life brings about many changes, both physically and emotionally. It can also be...
Finding Balance:: A Young Dancer’s Journey to Body Acceptance
My earliest memory of my daughter Olivia's {2006} love for food is when she was about 2 years old. Fruit gummies were her favorite...
Hey Kid, It’s Okay If You Don’t Want to Go to...
There is a blueprint for success that many of us have been conditioned to believe is the only legitimate and surefire path to a...
Confessions of a Tween Mom:: We Weren’t Ready. Period.
Ready or Not, Here I come {Period}
I thought we were ready. We had read the books, she had taken the class at school, we'd...
Love, Laughter, and Gilmore Girls:: The Show that Strengthened a Mother-Daughter...
Gilmore Girls is more than just a television show for my daughter and me. When we were drifting apart in the midst of the...
Homecoming 101
When I first moved to Houston in July 2017 and started to make friends, I started to hear talk about "Homecoming." I had heard...
Season 3 of 13 Reasons Why:: 10 Topics Your Teens are...
online pharmacy purchase cipro online generic In April of 2017, I watched the first season of 13 Reasons Why. If you are unfamiliar...
Why You Askin’ All Them Questions? {An Ode to Mothering Tweens}
Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen.
Those are the candles I will light this year. My youngest three children are officially tweenagers. I blinked and up they...
Have I Taught Her Enough? Preparing my Child for Adulthood
I’ve been coping with the fact that my daughter will be graduating from high school in May in the healthiest of ways - denial....
The Best Decision I Ever Made About Our Elf
My family and I were early adopters of the Elf on the Shelf. We had a hard time finding an elf because they were...