Tag: Parenting

"My sister sat on the couch with me as I painstakingly tried to pump through severe engorgement, and as she rubbed my shoulders, encouraging me to make it through just one more feeding session, I broke down in tears and told her I was so sorry. She looked at me shocked. Why, exactly, was I apologizing?"

This time last year she asked me if she could have pink hair and I said no. A few days later at a camp they were doing a demonstration involving fire and something went wrong and it caught her on fire. She had horrible burns over 70% of her body. This time last year we were in the hospital with her not knowing if she was going to live or not.

They just rolled off of her tongue like it was nothing.

"Waking up in the middle of the night, heart racing, sweating: What if she thinks I abandoned her? Praying: God, though I’m not with her, you are."

“I was taken aback. It was a real shock, because I had been thinking, ‘My child wouldn’t do that.’”

"I hadn't seen him in two days due to my work hours... Yet there I was 'too busy' to even look up. And I dismissed him."

"The next time you think it’s okay to comment on anyone’s size. It’s not. So, don’t."

"It sounds innocent enough. But this is an insidious phrase, revealing a sin so bankrupt it goes back to the very beginning."