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Can We Ever Truly Know Our Parents?

June 20, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 15 Comments

It’s Father’s Day. The first thing I did when I woke was go straight to the small framed Polaroid of my dad and me, taken on the last day I saw him. Father’s Day, nearly 25 years ago. There are a handful of other images tucked away. But that one, of the two of us, […]

Filed Under: Morning Musing, Parenting Tagged With: big questions, children of divorce, Father's Day, Parenting, Single Parenting, whatever life dishes out

Father’s Day Gifts (Good, Better, Best)

June 13, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 8 Comments

Good gifts Digital SLRs. Flat panel TVs. Exotic watches. Cordless drills, wrench sets, any kind of tools. Grills, golf clubs, silk ties. These are good gifts, aren’t they? Maybe even fabulous gifts? This used to be the lexicon of my month of June – whatever the latest and greatest gifts might be – for the […]

Filed Under: Dads, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: children of divorce, daily plate of crazy, family, Father's Day, father's day gifts, grieving, holiday gift giving, holidays, memories, Parenting, real life

Rescuing dreams

May 10, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 40 Comments

There is something I am not seeing. There must be. I am unable to fight back the waves. I erect a barrier, and it holds, briefly. Then it crumbles, and I am knocked down and submerged. I pull myself up and rebuild, as another wall of water rises beneath a deceptive sky. And I am […]

Filed Under: Love, Parenting Tagged With: big little wolf, biglittlewolf courage, bigltitlewolf, children of divorce, daily crazy life blog, daily plate of crazy, dailyplateofcrazy, divorced women, momalom, momalom courage, momalom five for ten, Parenting, Single Parenting, women's lives, writing

What Do You Do When There’s Nothing You Can Do?

April 21, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 24 Comments

Sometimes, all you can do as a parent of teens is sit back and hold your breath.

Filed Under: Divorce, Parenting, Single Moms, Tweens and Teens Tagged With: children of divorce, coffee, competition, healthy habits, life isn't fair, Parenting, parenting teens, single parent guilt, teaching kids life skills, time management

Can We Ever “Set the Record Straight?”

March 25, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 33 Comments

Those who provide the comforting advice that “one day, your kids will know what you gave up for them” are well-intentioned, and even kind. What parent doesn’t want to believe that appreciation will come for all our efforts, at some point in the future? But I question the premise, the concept of eventual “justice” when […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Love, Parenting Tagged With: children of divorce, emotions, fairness doctrine, fighting back, honor, Marriage and Divorce, Parenting, parenting teens, raising teens, Single Parenting, whatever life dishes out

Parenting Is a Profession. Where’s My Paycheck?

February 5, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 27 Comments

Let’s stop devaluing the breadth of skills that parents bring to the table.

Filed Under: Culture, Life After Divorce, Parenting, Popular, Surviving Recession, Women and Money Tagged With: children of divorce, Culture, divorce, economy, Marriage and Divorce, Parenting, real women real life, single moms, Single Parenting, starting over, Surviving Recession, whatever life dishes out, women's issues

Next generation marriage

January 23, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 7 Comments

“I want to get married,” he says. The words are fired off into the air and seem to settle there, stark and defiant, as though some invisible structure of wires and pulleys holds the phrase in place so I cannot turn away. Then each letter tumbles down through the air, disintegrating. These are special effects. […]

Filed Under: Dreams, Love, Morning Musing, Parenting Tagged With: anniversaries, big little wolf, biglittlewolf, child's view of marriage, children of divorce, contemporary culture, daily plate of crazy, dailyplateofcrazy, dream analysis, Dreams, Marriage and Divorce, memories, men and women, Parenting, Single Parenting, whatever life dishes out, women's issues, writing

Painting Over

December 5, 2009 by D. A. Wolf 7 Comments

Our walls, ourselves, our children.

Filed Under: Art Art Art, Featured, Life After Divorce, Parenting, Tweens and Teens Tagged With: art, children of divorce, life after divorce, Marriage and Divorce, Parenting, parenting gifted children, real women real life, Single Parenting, whatever life dishes out, writing, writing exercise

Courage

December 1, 2009 by D. A. Wolf 14 Comments

Sometimes our children surprise us. Really surprise us. I remember my older son defending his much littler brother against a bully, a kid who was beefier than both of them put together. But my first-born threw himself into the fray without hesitation, and got the bully to back off. Flash forward nine years. That bully […]

Filed Under: Life After Divorce, Love, Parenting, Single Moms, Tweens and Teens Tagged With: children of divorce, life after divorce, Parenting, parenting teens, raising teens, Single Parenting

Baptism by Bubble Bath (and Other Acts of Love)

November 6, 2009 by D. A. Wolf Leave a Comment

I was thinking about my in-laws the other evening. I loved them, and haven’t seen them in nearly 10 years. They are a close knit family, grounded, smart, and unpretentious. We communicated in an amusing mix of languages, and got along well for more than a decade. I remember how proud my father-in-law was when […]

Filed Under: Babies and Kids, Love, Morning Musing, Parenting Tagged With: children of divorce, divorce, divorce and in-laws, family, grandparent love, holiday memories, Love, Marriage and Divorce, Parenting, Single Parenting, travel with babies

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