Last month, the announcement that Kristine Casey gave birth to her own grandson at 61 had media headlines flashing like neon in the red light district. But what about the grandmas who are in it for the long run? Sylvia Butler—a Special Education teacher from Greene County, Tennessee, who spent most of her childhood in [...]
These days, having watched the original Star Trek series air on TV (Star Date: 1966—1969) carries about as much weight as witnessing man’s first step on the moon. I was there for both. From 5-to-8 years old, the whole notion of humanity’s technological brilliance was imprinted on my brain like that of a newborn gosling. [...]
It was just after turning 40 that Sue Collier—CEO of a self publishing company in Denver, CO—“woke up” and began to panic about whether she’d ever conceive a baby. Although Collier had “married late at 35,” she was in the midst of building her business (see below) and wasn’t quite ready to get pregnant. “But [...]
I first posted this blog in December last year to public damnation. It was the insult to injury of waking up after 40 years of adulthood to learn that Christianity was no longer tolerated in the American school system responsible for educating my young children. While we were strong-armed into supporting all other forms of [...]
Since posting Don’t Call Me Grandma! last month, I’ve learned that being mistaken for “the grandmother” can be a red-hot button for older mothers. Now, more readers and experts are weighing in on this emotional issue. Don’t Call Me Grandma! drew more frustrated, hurt—and often angry—comments at the end of the article, and in all [...]
Oh, if I could only wiggle my nose and make it all disappear. It took a chance meeting with a very young mother at Lizzie’s new kindergarten class to drive me out of the Midlife Mom closet to come clean about my miserable life. Why? Because, until then, I had blamed more than half of [...]
When I went to “grade school” in the 1960’s, the teachers and schools were like customers. They were always right. When a child came of kindergarten age, they were signed up at the local elementary school, destined to climb the grade ladder of the same institution, chased up by younger siblings, until grade 8 graduation. [...]
There are few situations where I am more aware of my age and experience as an over-40 mother than the beginning of the school year. Being older and starting your child in kindergarten is always special. It’s where—for the first time—you meet the moms of the other kids your child might be spending the next [...]
Motherhood may be permitted its moments of unmitigated joy, but today I realized that we are not the ones to choose them. You’d think that—at nearly 50 and having had my children well into my 40’s—I might have had some precognition of this precious little gem amongst the treasure trove of parental rites of passage. [...]
Six weeks ago, we made a drastic decision to pull Alex from 2nd grade (see link below), and his school, half way through the school year. He came home for Christmas holidays and never returned. The journey we’ve been on since then has been akin to a ride at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk—intermittently hair-raising, frequently [...]
Angel on CNN
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Angel on CNN, Mother's Day story, May 8th 2011. (http://www NULL.youtube NULL.com/watch?v=WySnP2nnwXU)
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