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I love how bold you are!" my friend from college said when she saw me step off a plane wearing leopard-print leggings.

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How do I de-emphasize looks and material things for my children when I care so much about them myself? Last night I attended a talk on the topic “Raising Resilient Girls.”

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We moved back to Berkeley, California from Brooklyn, New York because we wanted to start a family. It was a long, hot drive across the country with our furniture and our dog.

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Why don’t people warn you about new parenthood like they do about stealing, lying, or sex? When you tell me you are pregnant, and I say “Congratulations,” what I mean is: You’re screwed.

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There was a family I loved—brilliant mom, sensitive dad, lovely boy—and once they stopped by unannounced for a visit to the tiny studio apartment where our family of four lived like puppies in a cardboard box.

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I’ve heard the millennial generation called the “me, me, me generation,” though I prefer to think of us as the “yes, we can” generation.

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What in the world was I to do with a boy child in my home? Mothers of boys got sliced by helicopter rotor blades and stepped on wayward Legos.

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Once I felt confident that toddler Milo would not drown in our ugly pink bathtub if I left the room, I often strapped infant Ruby to my chest and used Milo’s bath time to clean up the nightly dinner hurricane.

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