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Want to connect with your daughter? Try audiobooks! That question is always at the top of my mind. Over the last year or so, as my daughter gets older, all I can think about is that in a few short years she’ll be out of our house and on her way to college. It might …

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Do you want your daughter to tell you everything? My daughter does.  I was just about my daughter’s age when I stopped talking to my parents. A precocious 9-year-old, I was ultra-sensitive to the energy of the people around me and was a master at reading body language. It was around that time that I …

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Oh, I’m sorry! Sorry to bother you… Hi, uh, I’m sorry. I just wanted… Have you ever listened to how often the women around you apologize? All day long it’s sorry this and sorry that. Amazing women, brilliant women. Helpful, caring, supportive women. And ten, fifteen, twenty times a day they’re apologizing just for living. …

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Wow. Fourth grade. If it’s anything like last year, we are in for an interesting ride. Ayva learned a lot last year about managing her time, and taking care of obligations. Our entire family did. From choir to Girl Scouts, theater, basketball, and church—not to mention homework and chores, we all stayed busy. This year …

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I am a proud ScholarShare 529 Ambassador. This is a sponsored post. My daughter is starting the 4th grade in the fall, and I can’t believe that in eight short years she’ll be headed off to college. I still remember the first day I took her to nursery school. That day, walking into the building …

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