"We watched from the stands as she crossed the stage—cap bobbing, tassel swinging, name called. I felt something catch in my chest. Pride, yes. Immense pride. But also a quiet ache. A hollow echo." motherwellmag.com/2025/06/10/a...

Our Q&A with Melinda Wenner Moyer about her new book "Hello, Cruel World!"with researched-backed nuggets about parenting, and how to prepare our kids for the future. motherwellmag.com/2025/05/29/q...

"While I can accept my sons won’t be Women’s Studies majors, I can’t live with them not being allies." motherwellmag.com/2025/04/30/w...

"I was terrified that love without blood ties would not be enough in court." motherwellmag.com/2025/04/23/f...

"Boys are not encouraged to talk about their feelings. It’s not that simple, but it kinda is that simple." An important piece NEW on @motherwellmag.bsky.social: #adolescencenetflix #adolescence #boymom

"Boys are not encouraged to talk about their feelings. It’s not that simple, but it kinda is that simple." NEW on Motherwell: #adolescencenetflix #adolescence

"He breaks a house rule. I ground him. He climbs out a window. I ground him for a longer period. He comes home late. I remove another privilege, until there isn’t anything left to take away." motherwellmag.com/2025/03/18/p... #parentingteens #parenting #teens

"I make dinner and don’t turn on the news. I stir concerns about microplastics, and stew on the price of organic vegetables." motherwellmag.com/2025/04/02/s... #parenting #parenthood

I love this piece on @motherwellmag.bsky.social today. It's stylistically simple and, for better or worse, substantively relatable. #creativenonfiction #parenting #motherhood

“My daughter is 18 now, her mind younger than her chronological age. She has learned to be less social, asking less frequently for friends or cousins who deserted her long ago.” motherwellmag.com/2023/12/20/s...

“The finality of a marriage—like death—illuminates that while other people’s lives move on, the grieving are left to make sense of the senseless, to understand the sudden exits of life; to carry on—ready or not—beyond Thanksgivings pasts.” motherwellmag.com/2018/11/19/h...

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