“I have an eleven year old sister that is very disrespectful to our mother. My mother has three other children and all have different fathers. My mother has messed up in the past with drugs, but is currently improving! Hannah, my sister, comes home from school everyday, does her homework, eats, and watches television. She […]
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PARENT: VERB OR NOUN
“I have a 17 year-old who is pregnant. She is involved with the baby’s father and has been sneaking behind my back to see him. She lies to be about where she’s going because she is seeing him. The baby’s father is on drugs, is in and out of jail and steals to get money […]
DON’T WANT SEX? FEEL UNDER-LOVED?
“I am 32 years old and I am married to a wonderful man. However, I find myself not wanting to have sex at all. He begs me and I just don’t want it. But if he initiates, then I get into it. Now I just don’t find myself getting aroused easily. It’s just easier for […]
MAKE FATHER BEG
“I find myself in a rough situation. My husband and I are planning to tell my daughter that the father she has known all her life is not really her father. Her real father had not been in the picture and really has not been a part of her life. However, just recently, I have […]
THE PERFECT SPOILED KID
A frustrated mom writes, “I have a 17 year old daughter who is every parent’s dream in most ways, but her spoiled attitude makes it hard to enjoy the better part of her. She excels in sports and all the coaches fight over who gets her, and the one that does makes her captain of […]
LETTING GO OF THE KID
At the risk of being called a hypocrite, I’m advocating allowing your kids to make their own lives. Lots of high school students are furiously writing college entrance essays and making themselves sick, worrying about what they’ll do now that they’re entering adulthood. Then there are the slackers who seem more interested in partying and […]
ONLY MY FAILURES
I’m going to be really honest here about a painful subject…my kids mostly just remember my parenting failures. The moments when I screwed up. This sucks the big one, but they remember the time when I went all crazy yelling at them–never mind that the yelling moments haven’t been all that frequent. They remember the […]
LOST THE FAMILY LYNCH PIN
“I am the youngest of three siblings. My brother is seven years older than me and my sister is twelve years older. Our father passed away eight years ago and we were a close family when he was around. He was the one who brought everyone together for family functions and holidays. Since his passing, […]
TELL HIM HE’S A GRANDFATHER?
One reader writes: “I got pregnant with my ex and he left me when I was four months along. …He hasn’t made any effort to see the baby and I haven’t seen him since we broke up. [Now] I wonder if I should tell my ex’s dad about the baby. He knew I was pregnant, […]
WALKING THE PARENT TIGHTROPE
Don’t think having kids will sudden confer a personality transformation on you. You’ll still be the same person and you’ll have taken on one of the hardest jobs on this earth. Parenting has many rewards, but it’s no cake walk. First, you have to walk the careful line between abandonment and entitlement. You want to […]