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I forgot my kid at school

Today, I forgot my kid at school. The story is a classic scheduling screw-up–specifically, my screw-up, my parenting fail–caused by an extra busy time at work, by stressors in my personal sphere, and by an imperfect calendaring system. Here’s what happened: my son, R, is ...Read More

8 Tips to Get Ready for Kindergarten

R starts kindergarten in September, and we’ve already started getting ready: paperwork, assessments, and lectures about transition and logistics. Last week, I received a letter inviting us to a tour of the school–at 1 PM on a Monday, which is challenging for this working ...Read More

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  Kimberly Hensle Lowrance’s writing can be found in the Boston Globe, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Embark Literary Journal, Mothers Always Write, and THE PANDEMIC MIDLIFE CRISIS: GEN X WOMEN ON THE BRINK anthology, among other publications. She is currently at work on her first novel.  Most ...Read More

Advice for New Parents: My Top 5

Three people I know recently had babies–congratulations to the new Mamas!–and it got me thinking about my days with newborns. My “babies” are now almost 3 and almost 5 (that’s them in the photo at the reservoir near our house), and so much of ...Read More