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What Distance Learning Really Taught Us

Almost every day of my life as a young student, I remember saluting the American flag by saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school. In...

Does there ever come a point in motherhood that we can fully let go of our children, trusting them to be self-sufficient and independent...

Time. There never seems to be enough of it. Every day, we race against the clock to get to work, drop the kids at school, get to the...

From the time we are little girls, we experience so many ups and downs with our fellow females. We often read about the “mean girls,”...

The other night, my son casually asked me, “Mom, what does it mean if a boy calls a girl a ‘sexy Barbie’?” I caught myself before telling...

One of the very first times I took my son to a playground, I was presented with a parenting conundrum that I still have not fully worked...

Over the past few weeks, I have eagerly read a friend’s regular Facebook status updates about how she was (im)patiently awaiting the...

During a recent visit to my child’s pediatrician, the doctor walked into our exam room, flustered, and proceeded to tell me what a very...

Long after most of my peers had already joined Facebook, I was still holding out. I was a busy mom, working long hours with a long...

During the summer of 2011, I was searching various toy store websites to find a birthday gift for a seven year old girl. I came across...