What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Laura. On my 21st birthday I was taken into hospital with a suspected infected ovarian cyst. I was living 300 miles away from home for a university years placement, but I . . .
College expectations and the burden of debt
This post was sponsored by Scholarshare. To say education is important in our family is a bit of an understatement. Our parents were educators. Mark and I both have advanced degrees. Both of us grew up watching our fathers pursue Ph.Ds. We grew up with the expectation that we would go to college. But we grew up with another expectation, too: Both of us were made aware from the beginning that we would have to pay for our college education. All of it—room, board, books—was on our . . .
What I want you to know about being a Special Needs Mom
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Suzanne Perryman. I am a special needs mom. And I have secrets. Things I don’t talk about and stuff that other mom’s don’t know or may have forgotten along the way... Special . . .
That’s what SHE said: morning routines, rules of attraction, turning down band-aids, baby boomers ruining parenting, and more . . .
Anne Lamott: My Secret Little Prayer | Salon.Com When I pray, which I do many times a day, I pray for a lot of things. I ask for health and happiness for my friends, and for their children. This is okay to do, to ask God to help them have a sense of peace, and for them to feel the love of God. I pray for our leaders to act in the common good, or at least the common slightly better. I pray that aid and comfort be rushed to people after catastrophes, natural and man-made. It is also okay to ask . . .
Friday Finds
1. Gold y bangle set | Zulily 2. Racer bundle by Little Modern | Gilt 3. Ivory necklace | Tom's 4. Black Girls Can by Rachel Garlinghouse | Amazon 5. Warm roasted sweet potato salad | thecozyapron.com 6. Men's Happy Birthday Jesus sweater| Tipsy Elves 7. Sweater-knit pom-pom hat | Old Navy 8. Leslie quilted short boot | Gilt 9. Becca Dress by Olive Juice | Gilt . . .
What I want you to know about loving a child diagnosed with SMA type 1
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Denise. Having a family member diagnosed with an often fatal disease is life at its worst. Especially when that family member is 4 months old. My nephew was recently diagnosed with . . .
What language should kids use when referring to Black people?
I recently got an email asking about how what words children should use when describing someone who is Black, and I thought it was a great question. With her permission I'm sharing it here. Dear Kristen, I recently heard my (white) 4th-grade son refer to another kid from a soccer team as the “African” kid. This was simply to describe who he was talking about. My hope is that he somehow knows the term African America, and just left off “-American” But reality is that I . . .
Mid-week funny: Text Me Merry Christmas
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What I want you to know about secondary infertility
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Carly. My husband and I -- after nearly a year of trying -- conceived a beautiful, healthy daughter, who has born after an extremely difficult pregnancy.Shortly before our marriage, I . . .
16 things you learn as an adoptive family
1. You will stress out. NBC NBC Adding a new life to your family is always a huge adjustment, and adoption is no exception. Sure, you may avoid the pregnancy waddle and stretch marks and hormones, but those stressors will be replaced with mounds of paperwork and anxiety as you wait for “the call.” And then you will wait some more. But oh, how it’s worth it. 2. You will never forget “the call.” FOX Or the email, in some cases, when you first . . .
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