I’m the Parent on the Sidelines and It’s Where I Belong
“I know what I’m doing. This is my tryout—let me do it my way,” my freshman daughter told me. I…
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“I know what I’m doing. This is my tryout—let me do it my way,” my freshman daughter told me. I…
Continue ReadingAfter another great game of my daughter’s, I posted my celebration and excitement of her online. I thought, "Geez, people…
Continue ReadingI sometimes ask myself if every woman has a reawakening after 40 or if it was just me due to…
Continue ReadingAfter putting in a full busy week, with countless other parents, we flocked to the sidelines to cheer our little…
Continue ReadingI thought five hit me hard. You were going off to kindergarten that year. Each day you became a little…
Continue ReadingMy kids are heading into middle school and high school in the fall. We are all in on the tween…
Continue ReadingI’ve loved youth sports and advocated for them since I was a youth athlete myself, so I was so excited…
Continue ReadingHave you sat with the dying? Have you seen the loved ones who sit at their bedside night after night,…
Continue ReadingI cried when I left my children’s daycare. And no, I don’t mean I cried when I dropped them off…
Continue ReadingAs I dropped my daughter off at yet another practice, I found myself questioning again—is it too much? On the…
Continue ReadingI feel like here, on the cusp of becoming a teenager, I can feel you slipping through my fingers as…
Continue ReadingI stare at that rocking chair. The arm and the legs are chewed up by one of the four dogs…
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