My Kids' Schedules Are Wearing Me Out

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Dec 22, 2022

My Kids' Schedules Are Wearing Me Out   "It's 6:30 pm, and I'm headed to a local school gym for the second time," Samm Davidson sets the scene. "I dropped one son off for basketball practice earlier and now I'm on my way to pick him up. Today also included a gymnastics class, two in-home speech lessons, an after-school program, and a partridge in a pear tree. Because life with school-aged kids is riddled with activities. Offerings are plentiful, signups are encouraged, and schedules are packed — and in my exhausted stupor I am left wondering, whatever happened to just hanging out?"  It's a great question. Read it and see if you relate.  Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor   READ MORE

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HALP! I Learned About My Married Daughter's Boyfriend Over Christmas Dinner   It's like something out of a movie, or your worst holiday-related anxiety dreams: a big, dramatic revelation about somebody's personal life around the dinner table. And yet, that's exactly what happened for the latest letter writer to our Ask A MWLTF columnist: "I generally think of myself as an open-minded person. I'm a 68-year-old mother of two, a retired social worker, a lifelong supporter of the arts, and a strong believer in the old maxim, live and let live. People have to find the path that's right for them, and who is anyone else to judge? These are my beliefs," she says. "And yet, last Christmas, I found myself accused of intolerance by none other than my own daughter." You really need to read this one.   Read More

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