Modern Millennial Motherhood

Pausing your child's medication for the summer is a real choice with real reasons. It's still worth asking what we're telling them about when, and for whom, they're allowed to feel like themselves.

It's not the conversation you think it is. Not at first. And it can't wait for the curriculum.

If you've ever wondered whether you were being too much for asking the question — you weren't. If you've ever wondered whether your kid noticed you not asking it — they did.

When my son’s birthday approached, I found myself walking back through a memory I had tucked away for years. It was my 10th birthday party, a day meant to be full of joy, but instead, it became a quiet reminder of loneliness. My parents had invited my entire fifth-grade class, but not a single classmate showed up. At the time, I didn’t fully grasp the weight of that moment. My mom did her best to make the day special, but when I returned to school the following Monday and I c