Growing up, I never had a strong desire to be a mother. Once it happened, I knew it was exactly what I was meant to do. Before my daughter was born, I was a glass half-empty kind of person. I saw what was missing for me, what others had that I wanted. I had battled …
Sometimes I think I’m the luckiest mom on earth. My 14 year-old daughter still likes me. We don’t fight, she doesn’t talk back and we giggle all the time. When people meet her they tell me she seems so well adjusted and self-confident. I agree. In fact, I think she’s exceptional. But of course I …
Have you ever tried to talk to your kid while she’s messing around with her phone? You ask her something. She never looks up but she nods her head, or she answers you with brief and mechanical responses. You walk away feeling a little bit hurt because she didn’t give you the time of day, …
As parents, we know that teenage girls are basically swimming in a hormonal sea. If you’re lucky, your teenage daughter’s rationality comes and goes evenly like the tide. But other times, she may hit like a Tsunami that we never saw it coming. In the blink of an eye, our world gets turned upside down …
