Out with two daughters. Apparently I’m emotional support if someone dies. As if that ever lasts in a comic book story.
Out with two daughters. Apparently I’m emotional support if someone dies. As if that ever lasts in a comic book story.
Though parenting young children can be the most demanding of seasons in a person’s life, it is also a time that our minds return to with an increasing fondness as the years pass. Sarah Condon writes an essay on The Work Of Love which is parenting: It is hard to recognise that you are in …
There can be a silence among families (particularly intergenerationally) about mental illness. Sometimes that’s done out of a sense of embarrassment or a well meaning desire to maintain privacy. What it achieves are walls that mean when later generations experience mental illness they feel isolated in that it doesn’t always occur to them that their …
We never really did the Santa Claus thing, but we made sure everyone got lots of presents. Regardless. One mother’s struggle to observe some of the cultural expressions of Christmas without yielding to its anti-gospel narrative of performance rewards. A taste: My six-year-old asked my nine-year-old this question in the backseat of my car recently, …
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