The Mom Stop column: Emotional firsts, and lasts, part of parenthood

Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****When my oldest daughter went to kindergarten in 2014, I was an emotional mess, as many parents are, with the idea that my children were growing up and I officially had a school-age child.I was brave and dry-faced as I walked my girl into her brightly colored classroom, helped her put up her backpack and lunchbox in her cubby, took a few pictures of her with some of her new friends. My son, who was 3 at the time, took it a […]  » Read More