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I Promise To Let You Have Ugly Hair

I recently spent time around a table with some older and wiser mothers. Conversation soon turned to teenagers. I envied my own budding members of this often maligned demographic, who sat on the hostess’ matching recliners, lost in competition on their iPods, while the battle-worn women told of children morphing into angry, emotionally unstable – even abusive – teens.

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Joining the Ranks of Stupid Parents Everywhere

Increasingly my children characterize my husband and I as the supporting idiots in their lives. Intellectually, I get it. But its hard to transition from the gods they once thought us to be, into these obsolete fools they need us to become in order to fully become themselves. So senseless are we that we must be tolerated and – more often – corrected.

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Crushing On Moms

What’s a mom crush? It’s not wishing some fabulous woman was your mother. It’s not when moms have crushes on their kids friends. (Or vice versa.) According to Alison Keinert, creator of CrushworthyMoms.com, it’s like this: Mom Crush: Having an overwhelming attraction to a mom. It's not sexual, it's a hint of envy, and its…