“‘I know you can’t hear me,’ he whispered. ‘But, I love you.’ And his tears fell.”
Today, I Witnessed A Love Like No Other
‘Dear You: I am terrified. I am so scared. Because the last time I felt this way, he left. It was out of his control.’
“I will push you away. I will sabotage and pick fights. I will try to get you to leave. I am afraid to feel like everything is out of my control again.”
‘I felt like a complete fake. Do people really think I can do it all and be so carefree?’ Mom’s guilt over juggling career and kids
“Why are we so hard on ourselves? Why do we hold ourselves to standards that no one can attain?”
‘She used to do puzzles, she can’t do them anymore.’: Daughter’s tearful realization about her mother’s dementia
“The mother that did all those things for all of us is now waiting for us to direct her, to hold her so she’s not scared, to make it better when she hurts, and most of all, to love her unconditionally. We have come full circle, and we are ready.”
‘Are you OK with this?’: Mom’s tearful goodbye to her foster son
“He was only supposed to be mine for four months. But then things changed.”
‘I have a stalker. She follows me everywhere, and I worry that she is ruining my life.’
“It wasn’t until I became a mother, that she tried to take complete control of my life.”
The 15 Habits That Raise Responsible Kids
Here are 15 everyday strategies guaranteed to increase your child’s “response-ability” quotient.
To My Birth Mother: I Don’t Think We’ll Ever Meet, But I Already Know You
“I am adopted, and I am so very lucky.”
To the Graduating Class of 2018: ‘Please don’t make the same mistake. Don’t put your family through what we are going through.’
“Our bodies were numb. We immediately felt empty and completely alone inside. ‘How can this nightmare be real?'”
How Having a Child with Special Needs Can Turn You into a Professional Dancer
“My grace on the dance floor becomes effortless with each day and each new encounter.”