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Parenting Hack: Creating Better After-School Connection with Your Child

“Hi honey! How was your day?!” This is how I start each day after school if I’m not careful. Of course, it’s a perfectly fine way to greet someone. The sentiment is healthy. We want to know how they are and what they’ve experienced in our absence. We are being loving. We are being invested.…

Why Coach & I Cry Every Time the Season Starts

One of the very first places I ever published written work was Friday Night Wives. I am grateful for what the years of writing for them taught me and for the articles that continue to ring true all these years later. I don’t include every article I write for them here, but this one I…

“Fill in the Gaps, Lord” – The Tiny Prayer that Freed My Parenting

In season nine of the hit show Friends, perfectly mismatched couple Monica and Chandler find themselves at a crossroads. Unable to conceive a child, they decide to pursue adoption. At this point, Chandler delivers the following punchline that is equally irreverent, amusing, and beautifully true. “I want to find a baby that needs a home,…