Scary Mommy
Jun 9, 2022
 
 
ALL BOYS
To Those Who Pitied Me For My Third Son
 
After a few days chilling in a hotel room blissfully alone – cannot recommend solitude and canned gin-and-tonics and Love Island highly enough – I’m back and ready to dive in. First up: It’s amazing what people will say right to your face, isn’t it? Today Hampton Williams Hofer writes about her joy at the news she was having a third boy and her frustration with the responses: “From family members to strangers, everyone had something to say.” Here’s what she wants them all to know. 

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Parents And A Surviving Child From Uvalde Testify Before Congress To Demand Gun Control
 
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STRATEGY
Texting Your Teen To Get Them To Open Up Works, Trust Me
 
What if you started texting your teens about serious stuff, not just what time they’re going to be home and what they want for dinner? That’s what Diana Park tried with her kid: “I decided to try something: I sent her a text. I asked her the same questions I had asked her when I was upstairs with her in her room. But now I got answers.” Have you ever tried it?
 
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