Parenting

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com My daughter is entering her last year of middle school and she and her friends are navigating some difficult

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Middle school and junior high are challenging times for many adolescents. When I was that age, I was constantly

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Tonight, I feel like an awful parent. I feel like a failure. These feelings don’t happen very often, but when

By Melissa Stefanec  | MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com I am officially 150-parenting-columns old. That means I’ve been doling out advice and baring my soul to total strangers for

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com If you’re a fellow parent, your day might have looked something like mine. It was likely just as crazy, because

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Recently, my family was sitting around the dinner table. My 12-year-old daughter had just joined us, fresh from an hour

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com One of my favorite ways to nerd out is to dig into some etymology. I love learning how words

Remember those simpler times when the world divided moms into two categories? By Melissa Stefanec       MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Not too long ago, there were

We have to coach our negatively wired brains to find and embrace the AND. When we find it, we need to say it out

By Melissa Stefanec       MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Our society is obsessed with superheroes. When it comes to idolization, many adults (and children alike), put superheroes