“My compliant, precious, perfect little girl. The one who listens to every single word I say at home. My rule follower. Yes, ma’am and no sir. You better believe I emailed that teacher.”
‘Today my daughter’s teacher expressed concern over her progress report. My compliant, perfect little girl got a 72 in math.’: Mom shows grace for teacher, ‘Their eyes see things ours don’t’
‘Every day I send my daughter to school with a heart drawn on her hand.’: Mom shares heart-wrenching way she prepares for school shootings
“She’s not old enough for a phone yet. So this is the only way I can say goodbye. It’s been over a week since the most recent school shooting, so the news cycle has moved on. But I’m a mom in America, so I cannot.”
‘I RECEIVED AN OFFER TO PUBLISH MY BOOK!…But I rejected it.’: Woman urges ‘don’t be afraid to ask for what you deserve’
“My fingers trembled as I typed it out. ‘I can’t believe what I just said.’ But, sometimes, we need to take a stand for what we deserve.”
‘Could you repeat that again?’ My brain was just not making the connections. I couldn’t stand it.’: Woman with learning disability openly shares her journey
“My teacher asked, ‘What happened in the story?’ I couldn’t remember anything. I felt anxious, defeated, and upset. I just wanted to give up.”
‘I gestured to my belly to indicate I was pregnant and needed to sit. I was too embarrassed to explain the truth.’: Type 1 Diabetic mom urges ‘my condition isn’t something that needs to be hidden’
“I constantly found myself afraid to eat. I sat between the sliding doors, wiping sweat off my forehead as I shakily finished the bottle of Coke. Nobody checked to make sure I was okay.”
‘I look at the pile of laundry on the bed, my to-do list, and the emails, and wish I had magic.’: Mom learns to seek out magic in everyday moments
“It never seems to work though, just sitting there, wishing for magic. Until yesterday, when it did.”
‘It’s time,’ he said softly. When we divorced 8 years ago, my ex stored some of my furniture for me.’: Woman proud of ‘modern family’ she’s grown and ‘all of the wonderful ironies along with it’
“Twenty years later, I never would have thought we’d be laughing about using my family’s antique couch in the wedding photos for my ex-husband’s second marriage, but here we are.”
‘Girls threatened to beat me up, run me over. They pushed me into lockers and slapped books out of my hand.’: Woman overcomes mean girls, bullying by never giving up on herself
“I was eating lunch in the bathroom, skipping school, and failing my classes. But I realized, no matter what they said or did, none of it mattered.”
Husband In Tears After Wife Secretly Publishes Book He Wrote As A Child
“It is for sale. And you own the copyright.”
‘The feeling a little bit lost and the, ‘How does she do it?’ It’s isolating and it’s universal.’: Mom addresses ‘growing pains’ of motherhood
“I think these are the growing pains of motherhood that we don’t talk about — the words that exist beneath the surface of ‘How’s the baby?’ and ‘Are you sleeping?'”