A personal essay on parenting teenagers into independence — describing the swirling chaos of the final year at home and urging parents to let go: stop advising unasked, stop projecting their own regrets, and let a child spin into their own becoming.
A short essay on releasing worry about one’s children, recognizing that we cannot know another person’s path or future, and that accepting our not-knowing, offering support, and focusing on our own life serves everyone better.
A guidance essay on releasing anxiety over grown children, arguing that worrying about their choices is futile once they are adults, and advising disciplined self-focus, selective responsiveness, and accepting a child’s right to walk their own path.
A lighthearted note on a collection of small objects found in a son’s pockets on laundry day in 2013, which the author found visually fun and full of curiosity.
A blunt, humorous essay arguing that the ideal of the good parent is undefined and unattainable, proposing instead a personal, controllable definition of parenting success and full relinquishment of responsibility once a child reaches adulthood.