Tag: parenting

I’m a boss (sometimes). I’m a mom (all the time). However, I never call myself a Boss Mom.  I’ll preface this by saying that I...

To be a mother in the year, 2021 was no joke. We mothered like we’ve never before! Breaking out the fancy new planner in January...

As the sun creeps in and I scroll through my Facebook feed, I am startled to see another post publicly shaming a local teen....

Anxiety tends to stink, for the most part. There are times when being anxious can be useful, such as when you’re in fight-or-flight mode...

I’ve always been hard on myself. In school, my grades were never good enough. As a teenager, I was never thin enough. And now,...

I miss the days when band-aids fixed all. When my kids were young, it seemed like a band-aid was the cure for everything that...

I took time off from blogging these past few months because I had so much on my plate and had to take a step...

Isn’t it funny how society has portrayed teens?  In movies and books, teens are often seen as aggressive, obnoxious, and downright hard to deal with,...

I recently read and was very moved by this quote by Tara Mackey, “If speaking kindly to plants helps them grow, imagine what speaking...

According to the Collins online dictionary, homecoming (aka HoCo) “is a day or weekend each year when former students of a particular school, college, or...