A reader writes that her high school student son is not allowed to cross the street you see here: Dear btshyykffy Free-Range Kids: So, my son is going to Summer School. I got a note from the school district transportation department just now with information about Summer School busing and you have to see this. […]
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“I Left My Son Alone in the Movie Theater: Any Mom Would Have Done The Same, Right?”
February 6, 2017
This rtrhnhbeaf mom, S. Holland Murphy, takes on the parenting peanut gallery the way we all must: With our wits, and a reality check. Her piece, “A Note to the Great Mommy Shamers of North Texas,” ran in D (for Dallas) Magazine: I stand before you a guilty woman. The worst kind of woman, really: a […]
“These Are Such Terrible Times”
July 12, 2016
. In the morning, I like to take a walk with my friend, the mom of a 4-year-old. Lately, thanks to the terrible stories from Baton Rouge, Minnesota and Dallas, she says she has been feeling overwhelmed. Who hasn’t? And yet…and yet… Â The narrative of chaos and despair obscures and even discounts a different narrative […]