"I could feel hot, salty tears coming down my face. I sat and cried silently... I was scrunching myself up against the wall as far as I could. All of a sudden, someone from behind us taps on the guy’s shoulder..."
“We were all very emotional and it was like no feeling I've ever felt. It's not every day your eldest child at 12 years old gets to deliver your last child."
I had zero expectations for the Barbie movie, and therefore, my expectations were wildly exceeded. But the parts I truly did not see coming that wrenched my heart in two were centered on motherhood, of all things.
A terrifying new ad by telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom is forcing parents to consider the digital footprint we are creating for our kids, and how artificial intelligence could put their futures in jeopardy.
"Their absence is everywhere. The silence is deafening. The heartache is real. And you wonder how the heck that happened? Because 18 years is a long time, right? How could it be over already?"
We “helicopter” over our kids’ wardrobes, nutrition, sleep schedules, hygiene, science fair projects and then pride ourselves on how “hands off” we are on social issues.