#parenting

#parenting

"Bear with me, I've not really been able to talk about it without crying, but I am working on it," Sarah Barker says.

In the story, the Stupid Parents couldn't stop bossing kids around. Then Emerald Warrior arrives on the scene and (spoiler alert!) tosses the Stupid Parents in the ocean.

"People have a lot of anxiety around middle names. It's on your passport and when you're filling out official documents, you use your middle name. But your co-workers aren't going to know your middle name. Your friends aren't going to know your middle name. The amount of time you're going to say your child's full legal name out loud is very small."

Dylan Dreyer expressed, 'I feel like I have my life that I love. I love my job. I love coming to work. I'm not thinking about my kids. And then I go home and I love being a mom. I love being with the kids, and I'm not really thinking about work. It's like I'm living two different lives, but they're all cohesive.'

I sat my son under a large maple tree in our backyard and told him that males cannot be female, and we would be going back to his birth name and pronouns. I said, 'Honey, I know that this is something you feel you cannot live without. But you will be able to live without it. And you will actually be happier.'

In many Asian households, love and repair weren't always spoken-they were implied, indirect, and often left for us to interpret. This isn't what I advise for the next generation of Asian parents.