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In 2021, my husband and I were only one year into postgraduate life and very new to marriage. At the time, our financial literacy left a lot to be desired, and being new parents only complicated all of this.As our son grew month after month, we started thinking more seriously about…

When author and illustrator Peter Brown set out to write “The Wild Robot,” he didn’t head to a studio or café — he went to the Catskills, Maine, and the Pacific Northwest to find inspiration. When I had the chance to connect with Brown, I knew I had to turn…

During the last five months my 64 year-old mother has been admitted to the hospital four times. As her primary caregiver, my responsibilities demanded that I handle emergency calls and advocate for her treatment all while still trying to keep my own life together. I also have an 11-year-old son…

I didn’t turn my son’s bedroom into a craft room when he left. I’d heard too many hurtful stories of rooms transformed the second a child moved out for college. I wasn’t going to be that mom.So when my son moved into his dorm in September, his room stayed exactly…

Like many parents, I pictured my children growing up side by side, playing together, and forming childhood memories as best friends. But then life, as it tends to do, threw a few curveballs my way. My son and daughter were born nine years apart.Throughout my pregnancy with my daughter, I…

She knew he was going to be a star before everyone else.She knew it long before her then-teen son ambled onto the stage of the 1,150-seat auditorium at New York’s LaGuardia High School with his baggy jeans falling off his lanky frame, stealing the annual talent show with his Lil’…

My son is a creature of habit. Every time I leave the house, we have to follow the same routine, and he says, “Hug, kiss, see you whenever I want.” He likes his pizza always with pepperoni and never with tomato sauce, and he has worn the same shoes every…

We have a house full of boys — three of them, to be exact. Before the twins came along, our eldest had enjoyed four years of undivided attention being a pampered, only child. He was the center of my world, my little shadow. When the twins arrived, he was genuinely…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Stacey Little, founder of Southern Bite. It has been edited for length and clarity.To say I grew up poor would be an understatement. I lived in a trailer with my mom and dad and only wore clothes from Walmart. Boxed Mac…