Just about every time I share any parenting-related frustration online, I receive some form of this comment: You’ll miss this stage one day. There may be some validity to this statement. In those cases, only time will tell. But most of the time, I disagree. My kids are 13, 14, 15, 18, and 19. I […]
Setting Boundaries
A Boundary-Setting Failure (and what I learned from it)
Two Saturdays ago we were at Yale watching Kasen swim his last high school meet. It was the tail end of an exhausting 5-week stretch of championship meets, and I was thinking about one thing: getting home, taking my bra off, and parking my butt on the couch and doing absolutely nothing for the rest […]