Claire Danes
Just your regular Silverdale soccer mom, with a lovely husband.
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Slice of life · 7 min
I Didn’t Say No
I know I changed it for him. And lately I’ve started wondering how many of us do this. Not big things. Just tiny adjustments. A sentence at breakfast. A carefully timed question. There is information sitting quietly behind my eyes that he will never see. And sometimes it tells me, with terrifying precision, when to mention mini golf and when to shut up. And sometimes it makes winning an argument so easy that there never has to be an argument at all. That should bother me more than it does. It does bother me. Just, apparently, not enough to spend Saturday at Lake Mercer.
Slice of life · 3 min
How Much Do You Let Them Handle Themselves?
My nine-year-old daughter loves Little League, which is why it’s so hard to watch a few mean little comments start to get under her skin. She still puts on the uniform and heads out there, but lately I’ve been wondering when a parent should let kids handle things themselves—and when it’s time to step in. If other parents have dealt with this too, I’d really love to know how you handled it.
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