Parenting and family stuff

good stuff from around the internet on raising good kids, building a family, etc.

“Children are not our projects. They are to share life with.”

-from On Being interview with Sara Hendren

If you’ve read my letters to my son, Myles, you know I am madly in love with him, and I love sharing with the world this love I did not get to experience myself. He’s given me a new sense of purpose. (I hate disclaimers, but I feel like I had to set this up for what I’m about to say.)

At the same time, I struggle with how much my marriage changed so... See more

Caroline Cala Donofrio • "No One Really Prepares You for the Kind of Math When 1+1=3 "

ssari

what a beautiful way to wrestle with the complexities of parenthood

One thing adults conceal about sex they also conceal about drugs: that it can cause great pleasure. That's what makes sex and drugs so dangerous. The desire for them can cloud one's judgement—which is especially frightening when the judgement being clouded is the already wretched judgement of a teenage kid.

Here parents' desires conflict. Older... See more