Melissa T. Shultz will be speaking at the BAM Bloggers at Midlife conference on Saturday, March 7, 2015. This post is certain to resonate with any mother who has sent her son off to college. Read more from Melissa on her blog, Sisterhood of Mothers This is a story about a boy and his …
Raising children
Do all parents suffer tremendously when their nest empties? Barbara Torris doesn’t think so – in fact she believes this can hold our children back from making their way in the world. Read more from Barbara on her blog, Retire in Style. I have written about almost every issue that Boomer parents deal with. Boomerang …
Dear Mommy Bloggers, I have come to the conclusion that some of you apparently don’t think your children are ever going to grow up. Let me assure you, it will happen. I have come to this conclusion because sometimes some of you post things about your children that will someday be humiliating and infuriating…to some …
Just as I never pretended for a moment that my third baby was planned, I’ve also never needed to pretend that, like his much older brother and sister, he is just what I wanted. We had many reasons for deciding not to have a third child: We had our boy, we had our girl. We were just settling into …