Category: Parenting

  • The Heartbreak and Dignity of Risk

    The Heartbreak and Dignity of Risk

    It’s hard watching your child struggle, knowing you can’t protect them from every hurt. But that’s the heart of motherhood—trusting that risk, failure, and even heartbreak are what shape our kids into who they’re meant to be. There’s dignity in risk. And maybe, just maybe, this transition will be what…

  • The Thin Line Between Advocacy and Entitlement in Parenting

    The Thin Line Between Advocacy and Entitlement in Parenting

    Sometimes I wonder: am I asking for fairness in a world that rarely gives it, or am I justifying shortcuts because life is harder? That’s where advocacy and entitlement blur.

  • Ableism, and RFK Jr’s Dangerous Obsession with “Fixing” Neurodivergent Kids

    Ableism, and RFK Jr’s Dangerous Obsession with “Fixing” Neurodivergent Kids

    Let’s talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest claim from his cabinet meeting—because it’s not just absurd, it’s dangerous. He promised that by September, we’ll know the cause of autism. Just like that. A deadline. As if science works on some kind of campaign calendar. It doesn’t.There is no scientific study, no credible…