April 18, 2022 How to get a neurodivergent tween to clean her room I hate a messy room. When my bedroom is messy, I usually clean it up right away. I know from experience that I like…
April 12, 2022 How to be like a llama and set good boundaries Do you worry about your tween or teen having healthy friendships and romantic relationships? I do – and that’s why I recently attended a…
March 11, 2022 I’ve got 99 parenting problems: TikTok and Snapchat are one I try to live my life without any regrets. If I have one parenting regret, however, it’s that I let our fourth-grader get on…
March 3, 2022 Your tween or teen might love this edgy-cool DIY project Where do your coolest ideas come from? Between Instagram, Pinterest, Tiktok and their awesome LGBTQIA+ peers, Journey comes up with some killer ideas for…
February 27, 2022 It’s normal for LGBTQIA+ kiddos’ identities to evolve It’s a brand new year, and that’s not the only new thing at our house. Our beloved kiddo, who came out as nonbinary and…
February 21, 2022 Revel in the red panda experience at the Columbus Zoo We love animals of all kinds in our family. That’s why I’m always very tempted by the Columbus Zoo’s special behind-the-scenes VIP animal encounters….
February 15, 2022 I was a crisis support counselor – and I hope to be one again I had an interesting and varied set of extracurricular activities during my college years. I was heavily involved in Christian fellowship groups. I taught…
February 13, 2022 Are you utterly enchanted by Encanto, too? Disney has finally come out with a movie that I love as much as Moana. I adored Moana the second we saw it at…
February 9, 2022 It feels strange to put your child on an airplane alone Traveling alone can be an important and fun milestone for a young traveler. When I was 12, I had the thrilling experience of flying…
January 27, 2022 Was I the victim of a born-again brainwashing scheme? I had a complicated relationship with religion – and God – as a kid. You see, my mom is a Christian – the born-again,…
