A letter written from the perspective of a teen. Dear Mom and Dad, Sometimes there’s a part of me that feels so overwhelmed… so heavy… that it starts to think it might be easier not to be here at all. I don’t always understand it....
A new nationwide study has confirmed what many parents of school-age children quietly fear: everyone else seems to have cracked the code—and your household is the lone exception. The study, conducted by the Center for Childhood Competence and Smooth Evenings, found that most parents of...
Dear Mom and Dad, Sometimes my feelings get really big. Sometimes they get big over things that might seem small to you — the wrong cup, a game that didn’t go the way I hoped, something changing when I thought it would stay the same....
Dear Sweetheart, There’s something I’ve been thinking about lately that I want to say to you. For a lot of years, when things happened — sometimes even small things, like knocking a glass of water over at the table — I reacted quickly. My voice...