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6 Tips for Adjusting to Your Child Going to College
- August 13, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: empty nest, parenting
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When I dropped off my eldest child at college, I thought my heart was going to break. However, just a few weeks after that sad weekend, I had adjusted to and accepted the fact that my daughter was no longer a permanent member of my household. Here are a few tips to help you adjust
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New Year’s Eve at Midlife
- August 1, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: marriage
New Year’s Eve, 2012. We went out to dinner with a group of 6 couples, and we had a wonderful time. We went to a pretty happening place, which we don’t really do much anymore. Not that we don’t enjoy a nice evening out, but this place was, well, young (or young-ish). I guess what I
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Watching my Son Grow: a Photographic History
- July 30, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: family
When my son was born twenty years ago, one of the gifts we received was a bouncy seat. He was a big baby (9lbs 2 ozs, 23″), so from the very start he was comfortable in his little chair. Needless to say, we took a lot of pictures of our kids when they were growing
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Texting and Driving – a Personal Story
- June 13, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: Uncategorized
One evening my husband and I were lying in bed watching television. At around 10:15 we heard the front door – our son was home for the evening. There’s a sense of calm that comes over a parent, no matter how old their children, when the kids are all safely at home for the night
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The Post 50 Dinner Party of 2012
- June 11, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
There are two ways to have dinner with friends. One is to go out, the other… stay in. As I’ve grown older, I’ve come to prefer, more often than not, an evening at home — mine or someone else’s — to dinner in a restaurant. I enjoy the relaxed, easy feeling of not being hustled
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Commencement
- May 22, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: parenting
What’s it like to watch your child graduate from college? What I kept replaying in my head as we began graduation weekend was not the day my daughter was born or the day of her Bat Mitzvah. Not the day she got her driver’s license, or the night she sang her first show choir solo.
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What Happens Next: My Children are Coming Home
- April 26, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: empty nest
My children are coming home. What does this mean for me? It means that my son is returning home, for good, from the University of Arizona. He will attend a local junior college where he hopefully will ( if he listens to his parents) play football and consider where he would like to continue his education
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Anxiety and Panic Attacks at Seventeen
- April 24, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
In John Irving’s masterpiece “The World According to Garp,” Garp’s youngest child Walt misunderstands when his father warns him to “look out for the undertow,” hearing his words as “look out for the under toad.” The under toad became, for the child in the book, the representation of everything scary and overwhelming and out of
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My Dirty Laundry
- April 14, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: empty nest, parenting
I loved doing laundry when my kids were growing up. I love the fact that there is a beginning (dirty clothes in laundry baskets) a middle (sorted and washed, dried) and an end (folding and stacking). In the house where we raised our children, my laundry ritual was to sort and fold while sitting on my bed,
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Marriage – Come Rain or Come Shine
- March 26, 2012
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: marriage
It was a wonderful wedding. For my husband and me, it was a milestone, as we watched the first of our friends’ children to be married, a young woman we have known since she was 9 years old. Now twenty-four, she was as beautiful and confident as a bride could be, crazy about her groom,