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Category Archives: grown children

Parenting advice … from a liberal!

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Karen Foley
Posted in Adult Children, family, grown children, Life, Parenting, politics, teenagers

Remembering Motherhood – it is nothing like you ever imagine it will be!

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Karen Foley
Posted in Adult Children, family, grown children, Holidays, Life, middle age, Parenting

What’s missing in my empty nest life?

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Karen Foley
Posted in Adult Children, family, grown children, Life, middle age, Parenting

What kind of a parent puts a baby on a plane to Africa?!

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Karen Foley
Posted in Adult Children, challenges, family, grown children, Life, Parenting, teenagers

Of all the men I’ve lost, I miss my dog the most . . .

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Karen Foley
Posted in divorce, Fresh Start, grown children, Life, relationships

Parenthood: menial labor, unfathomable love & unspeakable terror!

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Karen Foley
Posted in Adult Children, family, grown children, Life, Parenting

Helicopter Parenting – or for goodness sake at least hover out of sight!

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Karen Foley
Posted in grown children, helicopter parents, Parenting

Going Home . . .

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Karen Foley
Posted in grown children, Life

I Don’t Know ~

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Karen Foley
Posted in grown children, Parenting

On Motherhood ~

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Karen Foley
Posted in feminism, grown children, helicopter parents, middle age
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Karen Foley, has successfully been writing her blog for the BDN for over a year now. By successful, she means a few people read it, and she has not been sued, stalked or fired since starting it.

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