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The first time, I kept asking my mother how I could help. I needed to do so...| Mutha Magazine
If you have a daughter you may have had the challenge of handling the emotions of a girl. I mean we have to deal with our own emotions at times, don’t we? I have four girls and three boys and there is such a vast difference in the emotional challenges and needs of my girls, than my boys. Sometimes there are exceptions to this rule, but overall that is the case. My girls require much more emotional attention and being a woman, it is difficult to handle something I myself don’t have handled...| Club31Women
I keep a catalogue, a mental inventory. There are mothers who paint portraits of cats dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte and mothers who fall asleep drunk on patterns for XXXL pajama pants, and mothers who mouth “fuck you” to their daughter in the backseat when they get lost in the family car and the daughter is trying her best to calm everyone down. Mothers, man. Every time I meet someone’s mother, I think: Fuck. I’m glad my own mother’s dead and that I never knew my mother after I was ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Grief doesn’t step aside for joy. It walks with it—quietly, steadily. By Elizabeth Candy The post A graduation, a ladybug, and the daughter who wasn’t there appeared first on .|
The first time, I kept asking my mother how I could help. I needed to do so...| Mutha Magazine
We want our daughters to be kind, but we also need to remember that we need to help them learn how to identify toxic relationships.| parentingteensandtweens.com
