Category: Kids
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Parental ADHD
My cousin has two children. Her oldest, 15, was diagnosed with ADD when he was nine and has been on Ritalin since. He’s failing out of the private high school he attends in Manhattan. He lies, cheats, and steals when it suits him. He is volatile (way beyond normal teenage angst), and often violent with […]
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The Power of Love
My son’s guitar teacher was freaking out the other day over the impending arrival of his first child. Beyond a healthy birth, he was consumed with anxiety over the care and feeding of an infant, all the way up through guiding his teen. So I told him the secret of parenting, what makes the sacrifice […]
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LOVE Defined
My sister is dead, I told the bank manager. But she isn’t. She lives in Washington with her husband, having moved from L.A. where we were both born and raised. The bank manager expressed his condolences and accepted the paperwork from our lawyer to remove her name from our Trust. My sister was to be […]
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Screw a Border Wall, Let’s Build a DOME
My daughter came home crying from her job as a barista for a local Boba Tea cafe. “They don’t like me, mom! I’m doing the exact same level of work that all the new kids are, and they keep calling ME out cuz I’m not Asian.” Several other barista type jobs at various locally businesses […]
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On Being Cool
What the hell was the point of all these things when he didn’t even use them? “To be cool, mom,” he said through tears.
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The Difference Between Men and Women
I’m a guy’s girl, meaning I’ve spent most of my life hanging out with men instead of women. Like the freight train comin at ya, I prefer men’s straightforward nature, their directness, their unwavering, solution-oriented trajectory. Men are simpler than women. Not less intelligent, just not round-about, underneath, from behind. Women, by contrast, are the […]
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The Good Life
To escape the bickering, and whining, and needs and desires and everyone’s demands, I took our dog for a walk on a quiet fire trail near our house. Bright and beautiful out, a sweet sea breeze came over the Oakland Hills with the afternoon sun. The mile and a half dirt path cut along the […]
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We ARE What We DO
In the car with my 10 yr old daughter the other day, she asked me what Ego meant, one of her vocabulary words for the week. I laughed. “Good question, I replied. What do you think it is?” “I wouldn’t ask if I knew, mom.” “Well, use it in a sentence, in context. You’ve heard […]
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My TEEN is ADDICTED to VIDEO GAMES. HELP!!
I so rarely get personal online, but I’m at a loss and would love some advice from my friends here, cuz someone among you all must have some direction for me, hopefully… My teen is addicted to video games. And while parents are nodding here, and kids are shaking their heads in disgust of my dramatic […]
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