Well, the jury’s in from my anxious prognostications back in May, when the challenges of the summer lay in wait for us like the Sirens on island of the Faiakes. And, as profoundly as I love my children, there’s something of a relief in being permitted to pack up the Mom ’n’ Pop Big Top [...]
In late May, my children got out of school early for the summer, all fired up and eyeing me expectantly like I’m the designated Tour Operator at Disneyland. Didn’t anyone tell them that laundry, shopping, and housework go on all the same whether they’re in school or not? Little did they know that, a mere [...]
Last week, the A Child After 40 campaign was mentioned in Live Science (see below) for a feature on the parenting topic du jour—“over-scheduling” of children’s activities. Not that the two are directly connected—I was invited to give my two-cents on the issue from the perspective of an older parent. I originated from the BT [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Almost every mother knows that sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, when she fears there might be “something wrong” with her child. Periods of developmental transition can be especially sensitive, like the leap from morning preschool into an all-day kindergarten. In fact, there’s a few kids—like our daughter Lizzie—who have unexpected extreme reactions [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Recently, I’ve had the revelation that—before our children can be accepted back into the modern, hallowed halls of elementary school for the commencement of fall classes—parents must be tortured first. The modern institution of primary education prides itself in the mastery of the fine arts of parental subjugation—a process during which little or no mercy [...]
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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