My fellow momma, I know our kids are doing the best they can in this moment. I know we are doing the best we can in this moment. I also know that our boys need our help.
Better with Boys
When the nurse told me she saw boy “parts” on the ultrasound screen, a little part of me died. Not in a bad way. It was more of a realization that the old life, the only one I had known, was going to be be different, but this foreign life would be my new way of life.
Unaccompanied Minor
I find myself worrying now, at the airport, if I should be more nervous. I have friends who wouldn’t let their 11-year-olds fly alone, and I start to wonder if they know something I don’t.
A Mother of Mama’s Boys Grows Up
I loved how much my boys loved me, how they’d compete for my attention, or couldn’t go to bed without me.
Listen More Often
My first night in my village, I was nervous. I would spend two years in this village of 200 people.
Why Boys Should Chop Wood
We learned a lot about what was going on in our children’s lives while doing chores with them around the yard.
Dear College Boy
My brain that is trying to tell my body to quiet every fight or flight impulse it is having right now because I can feel you breathing over my shoulder and I can hear you mumbling the words to the song you are listening to.
How My Boys Healed Me
Men made me nervous. They were an unknown and a mystery to me in a way that I had no curiosity to discover.
7 Things I’m Not Afraid to Tell my Boys About Love
Despite what a lot of people are going to tell you, love and sex aren’t necessarily entwined. They can be, and that is often the most fulfilling way to experience sex for a lot of people, but the key to healthy sexuality is being honest, open, and safe with your partner…and yourself.
Girl Meets Boy: 10 Things My Son Taught Me About Raising Boys
By Shenna Fitzgerald. Here are a few things my son (and other people’s sons) taught me about boys.