Headphones & Hormones
They've outgrown the highchairs, they can't hear a word you say, and you don't know whose hormones are worse, yours or theirs. Here's my take on parenting teens as a perimenopausal single mom in 2025.
- Headphones and Hormones
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Category: Highchairs and Headaches
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Back in my early twenties, motherhood seemed more like a good way to settle down in my mid-thirties than a thing that was unsuspectingly about to take control of my entire life. I used to walk around, head in the clouds, like I had the sweetest-smelling shit of all, telling myself “when I become a…
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Remember when you told yourself that the holiday hell would be over on December 26? Well, take a look at the current state of your living room. Does it look a little like a Toys R Us warehouse imploded on itself? That’s because December’s fat lady has yet to sing, darling. There’s still much to…
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We all have ’em. Here are some of mine: I sometimes have to try REALLY hard not to laugh when my son is sounding out words when we are reading together because he sounds like a dying moose. I occasionally “borrow” a few bucks from my kids’ piggy banks for takeout when I have no…
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I really, really want my kids to have a great Christmas. It’s practically a requirement for me, as a parent and lover of all things Christmas, to make sure every holiday season rocks their little green and red socks off. Unfortunately, it seems to be getting harder every year to keep Christmas awesome while keeping…
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Just going to dive right in with this, as I haven’t got much time today. There’s food to make, cookies to bake, and a couple of crazy kids giving me a headache 😉 The Six Worst Things About Thanksgiving: The family divide and conquer trick – I’m no magician, so unfortunately I can’t slice myself…
