Articles tagged “parenting”

6 essays

The hardest part of parenting isn't the mistakes. It's the audience.

Six months of thirteen-second pauses. Roughly forty-seven minutes of not reacting that saved everything.

My nine-year-old threw a pencil at the wall and I almost became my father.

A toy kitchen, forty-six pieces, and the moment an eye twitch named Gary tried to save a marriage.

I found the birthday card three months late. A perfect archaeological dig of good intentions.

I missed my daughter's first soccer goal because of the snooze button. Not directly. But the chain of events started at 6:47 AM.