By Ann Brown/Parenting Consultant My mom hasn’t been well lately. She’s getting better, but it’s been scary so I went to LA to be with her. I did a lot of cooking (nutrition for her, therapy for me) and a lot of asking her if she needed anything (mostly, she didn’t). At moments, I felt […]
By: Shannon Ralph I have an amazing daughter. She is smart and capable. Talented and sassy. I adore her with every cell in my body. I am certain she has a bright future ahead of her, and may just be the leader of the free world one day. All that said, however, let’s be brutally […]
By: Shannon Ralph I am the mother of a 9-year-old daughter. In some ways, I feel like raising my daughter is more difficult than raising my two sons. Yes, my sons fart. And try to kill each other on a daily basis. And their socks emit a smell that am pretty sure could be bottled […]
By: Hollye Dexter I’ve recently found myself riveted to The Judds series on OWN. Riveted. As they say in the opening credits, the mother-daughter relationship is the most complicated in the world. Many books have been written on the subject. Many. Therapists have bought second (and third) homes because of it. And I am the front […]
By: Suzanne Kamata Among my fantasies upon learning that I would be the mother of a girl: We would wear matching dresses, as my own mom and I sometimes did. I would take her to ballet lessons and watch her twirl on the stage. I would teach her to read in English, and introduce her […]
