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The Legal Docs You Need To Protect Your Family
This following post is written in partnership with Bloomwell. As parents we do everything we can to protect our children. But there is one super important thing that many of us put off doing, and that’s obtaining legal documents to protect our children if we are away from home (like when we use a babysitter…
Ways to Bring Martin Luther King, Jr Alive to Kids
Civil rights leader and Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King died almost 50 years ago. He would have been 87 on January 15. One of my mom friends, who witnessed King’s inspirational 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, recently told her two kids about her participation. They were…
Autism and a Death in the Family – Part 1
How will children with autism react to a death in the family? I do not know how each child will specifically react. However, my family and I had to deal with a sudden tragedy over the holidays. What happened? I had a sibling pass away suddenly just before Christmas. I flew to North Carolina from…
The Middle Place
At a time when many memoirs are often either sappy exercises insentimentality or specious journeys into degradation – not to mentionsimply fake – along comes Kelly Corrigans The Middle Place, to remindus what the genre can really be. At 33, Corrigan, happily marriedsuburban writer/mother of two tiny daughters, adored daughter of a manwho believes everything she does is simply fabulous, wakes up todiscover she has breast cancer. Almost at …
Losing Papa: How My Kids Dealt With Death
Until last week, my three children had no experience with death. And strangely enough, although Ive lived almost five decades, neither had I. Both my grandfathers died before I was born; my grandmothers died when I was a child, but I was not close to either of them. No one Ive cared deeply about has eve