Relationships
Will You Write My Son While He Is At Overnight Camp?
Writing funny letters is important when your kid is at overnight camp….
How My Son Discovered The Opposite Sex
It happened. Six weeks before his bar mitzvah, my son discovered girls….
The Piano Lesson
I wrote this poem along with students in a poetry writing workshop that I conducted several years ago. …
Leaving My Safety Net: A #LessonLearned by Shannon Pruitt
Shannon Pruitt writes about a difficult time when she realized it was time to break up with a man she loved….
Below My Husband’s Belt
My husband might divorce me. Because I wrote about his man-biscuits. Yup, I wrote about my husband’s balls. And you can read…
I’m Letting Go of Toxic People
I’m guest posting about Toxic People at Nina Badzin’s blog today. And I’m scared….
Saturday Night at the Club
Working on my fiction! This week’s prompt spoke to me so I decided to give it a whirl. We were asked to…
Are You Cool With Coed Sleepovers
I have been hearing more and more about kids getting together en masse for coed sleepovers. Some parents have been very positive about these group adventures in nocturnal cohabitation and insist there is little to worry about — the kids are all just friends, no one is drinking or doing drugs or hooking up, that the kids just like to “hang out together” in their jammies; sometimes they even text while sitting next to each other on the couch! For many parents, there’s no discussion about it – coed sleepovers are out of the question. For other parents whose teens who are hosting and attending these boy-girl events, it’s merely a sign of the times, a natural extension of the ever-expanding platonic relationships between the sexes. Some parents are clueless; their child simply tells them he/she is going to sleep at a friend’s house, but the parents never call to check in with the host parents, so they have no idea the event is coed.
How do you feel about group, coed sleepovers; they seem to be the new “cool” thing? Yay or nay? When would you allow your child to have someone of the opposite sex sleep at your house? Could they share a room? A bed?…