parents
The boundless love a parent has for their child is matched only by their capacity to embarrass them.
How a Used Car Dealer Taught Daughter About Entrepreneurship
When I was in elementary school, the very first topic that my teacher asked us to write about was our parents. It was easy for me to write about my mother because of her selfless care for the whole family, but not so easy about my father. He was a businessman back then. I didn’t respect his career until I started my own business. What I have been through keeps reminding me of what he told me when I was little. I did not get it and hated to listen then. This month is my father’s birth month. To honor him, in this very personal essay, I would like to talk about many precious lessons he taught me.
By Grace Huang5 years ago in Families
Dear AS: Thank you for making my mum a queen
Ankylosing spondylitis: an inflammatory disease that, over time, can cause some of the small bones in your spine (vertebrae) to fuse. This fusing makes the spine less flexible and can result in a hunched-forward posture. If ribs are affected, it can be difficult to breathe deeply.
By Kayleigh Taylor5 years ago in Families
Dear Mom
May 2020 Dear Mother, Here’s $400 cash for grandpa’s account. It will still be two weeks or so until I find a place to move. Maybe longer. I have several more leads to follow, numbers to call, applications to fill out, and legal documents to collect. Under the circumstances, for any landlord or seller to approve a lease application I will need proof of identity theft, copies of FBI reports, copies of communications from Cyber Crimes Unit, bank statements, court orders, anything else I have proving why my credit is in ruins, and a streak of damn good luck and damn good people.
By Billie Lynn Codi 5 years ago in Families
Dear Mama
Born August 1963 to a mother who never really wanted children but for some reason decided to keep her. I am forever grateful for that because obviously me and my three sisters wouldn't be here. Her mother (my grandmother) was an interesting woman indeed. She kept her dressed in the finest clothes yet to give her the basic things like "love" was such a challenge for her.
By Lelelapoete Speaks5 years ago in Families
To My Warrior Mother
Hello Mom! It may seem a bit strange to write to you since I see you every day, but the truth is that isn’t enough. We know our story, with the habitual adversities. You were both parents after my father died, your love for us was your fuel. We had food on our table, and you made us move forward into a better future.
By Sofia Duarte5 years ago in Families
Forgiveness
It is well known that Cary Grant had used LSD (at the time was not illegal) for therapy. 'Cary also credited his sessions with the drug for finally realizing he must stop blaming himself for any mistakes he’d made or the mistakes his parents had made in raising him. “Look,” he said, “they did the best they could given the circumstances of their upbringing. They made huge mistakes. All parents do. But I came to the conclusion that they’d done the best they could and I owed them so many things––the most important thing being the fact that I was on this planet. That’s when, for the first time, I truly started loving my father and mother. “I realized I had to stop blaming them for their mistakes and stop beating myself up for the ones I’d committed. I could beat myself up better than Muhammad Ali or George Foreman or any fighter you want to name.'
By Delores Rockett5 years ago in Families
Drunk Driving- Learning to Survive Through a Nightmare.
Imagine waking up and going to work. Then, in the middle of the workday, you get a frantic call from your cousin that you never thought you’d get. Your parents are in the ICU because they were the victims of a car crash. Your mind begins to race, and your heart beats faster and faster as minutes feel like hours. What happened? Are they okay? How could this happen? All these questions leave you fearful and hopeful for the lives of your parents.
By Janelle Lalley5 years ago in Families
The Smallest Human I Ever Knew
Rare teachers can deliver a lesson that another carries with her throughout life. Amelia was one such teacher who did it before she was three days old. She was a premature infant and I witnessed her birth. She was what neonatal intensive care nurses call a “micro-premie.” She will never know me but I will never forget her.
By Brenda Mockler5 years ago in Families
You call me a crazy tennis mom like it's a bad thing
When 19-year old Bianca Andreescu took down the greatest women’s tennis player in history, Serena Williams in straight sets, the world became obsessed with Bianca’s mom. With her huge glasses, designer clothes, and consistently stoic look, she was definitely not the typical sports-parent we’ve seen on television. You know the ones, wearing tee-shirts sporting their child’s name while writhing with every hit and miss. Rather she seemed calm, cool, and often distant at times. Even as the clearly pro-Serena crowd cheered on a mini-comeback, the camera kept showing Maria. Still nothing, zero emotion.
By Cindy Matta5 years ago in Families
Are Generational Differences Destroying Families?
There is a pattern I have been seeing among my peers (elder millennials) regarding our adult relationships with our parents. I see many comments that describe similar experiences to mine on social media. The common theme is that of having good memories of parents who were wonderful during our early years but who are unable to accept us as we are now. This is my story.
By Megan Rabideau5 years ago in Families
When I Think of Home
When I look at this photo of my mom laughing because I told her that I wanted to go back home in the comfort of her womb. I now reflect of the choice she made to be a single mom and the joy it brought. At times she would tell me that she would be walking home from work laughing out loud of the things I did that were funny. My mom would tell me positive things about me. However, I regret today of how I would tell her you are just saying that because you are my mom.
By Avizz V Wright5 years ago in Families
Parenting Techniques
As a mother, you have discovered parenting is not an exact science. No two children are alike. I am the birth mother of seven children, five sons, and a set of twin daughters. Each of them is unique. The twins are as different as night and day. Likewise, your children are diverse in temperament, interests, abilities, preferences, and responses to rules and discipline.
By Stephanie Stratford5 years ago in Families
