Contributor Confessions

Dear Preschool, Montessori School, Elementary, Junior High, High School, Classical Model, University Model, Homeschool, and ALL THE SCHOOLS IN ALL THE PLACES... Can we be friends again? Like the best of friends? You know the ones, the ones that talk...

Little milestones remind me of our old church. Right now, it's Vacation Bible School. Summer brings back memories of countless hours spent painting decorations with other VBS volunteers. I think of the kids I met each summer and the...

To My Children's Future Kindergarten Teacher, In less than a month, my children will enter your classroom door and hopefully, your heart. I've thought about this day since they were born, but obviously as the countdown draws closer, it fills...

"Bye! Have fun! I love you!" I shouted at the retreating figure of my 10-year-old as he ran towards the door of my mother's house for a sleepover. "Remember ... no watching the news!" My mom loves the news. She watches...

I recently finished my college scrapbook. Y'all, I'm closer to 40 than 23. My closet housed an "in-progress" bag full of scrapbook paper, printed pictures, a slew of other scrapping materials ... and I finally decided that I had to...

Recently I made my son do something he hated. Something that was hard and did not at all come easy to him. Something that for 14 straight days ended in him crying and telling me that he wanted to quit....

Christina Yang and Meredith Grey. Chandler Bing and Joey Tribbiani. Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen. Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer. Woody and Buzz Lightyear. My son and his lovey. His lovey...his very best friend. His person. It’s so special to him; it’s...

The walls are quickly closing in on my time in my reproductive years. For the past 6 years, I've been having a constant conversation with myself {and my mama tribe} about planning to have babies, trying to have babies, carrying...

I never really cared for arcades - or video games in general. As a former high school teacher, I can recall countless parent-teacher conferences in which students were failing my class because of their after-school video game addictions. Instead...

Children’s birthday parties. What was your initial reaction when you read those words? Option 1 :: “Oh, yay! A chance to celebrate a person!” Option 2 :: “Another gift to buy. More money to spend." I’ll be honest. My initial reaction is...