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Two years ago I moved into a house that has a garden that can be kindly described as uncared for. The weeds were waist high, and soon after we moved in, the weeds were so tangled behind the house that it became difficult to walk there. My stepson has described our yard as “sorta ghetto.”
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When our son was born, my then-husband and I had to figure out our roles as parents. Later when we separated and divorced we had to figure out our roles as sole parents. This transition happened when we were also trying to determine who we were as not-married people. Worse, we had to figure out [...]
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I’m a strong minded-woman but when it comes to parenting, I often second-guess myself. I feel like I’m not being the best mom I can be, because I’m busy, overwhelmed, and so on. When it comes to behaviour that is not bad, just irritating, I am guilty of occasionally opting for the status quo rather [...]
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In the chaos that is my everyday life, I sometimes forget to pay attention to the small shifts going on around me. One of the shifts that I noticed recently is in my teenage stepson. This year he started high school, and with it an intense sports program and a commute by public bus. With [...]
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The Candy Plan
Each Hallowe’en has brought with it a struggle over candy – particularly, its consumption by my six-year-old son, who is allergic to preservatives. I remember the first Hallowe’en when my son realized that by simply getting dressed up and mumbling a few magic words, he would be given candy. He was only more [...]
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“Mom, can we wrestle?”
My six-year-old asks me this on a near-daily basis. Sometimes I wrestle, but more often I promise: “Tomorrow, my love.”
One day I actually heard – I mean, I really heard – what I was saying. I was promising to do something in order to not do it at that moment. Considering that [...]
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