“I want to come home.” These are the words my daughter, DQ, spoke to me a month after she moved out of my house to live with her father. They were the words I had hoped to hear from her every day since she left, and yet, they felt so sad as she said them... Continue Reading →
Why I let my teen move out
I know I already wrote about this. In fact, she has already moved. But after much thought, I decided to also write a newspaper article about what's going on in our home. I figure plenty of divorced families are going through the same thing as their child decides which parent to live with full time. ... Continue Reading →
Parenting advice from a bad mom
I have a parenting article due tomorrow, and I am strapped for ideas. They say to write what you know. But it seems that all my parenting issues are turning into things that are way too personal to include on a page read by thousands. Sometimes they even feel too personal to leave here, on... Continue Reading →
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