lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: Personal Space
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2015/07/personal-space.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Thursday, July 2, 2015. A thing about personal space. It's very important to me, which is a bit ironic since I grew up in New York City. In NYC — unless you're a Vanderbilt, a Rockefeller or a Rothschild — personal space is hard to come by. From a real estate perspective, that is. It's even harder to negotiate on public transportation at rush hour. Prior to my recent high school reunion. She assured us the man — and his hand — would soon slink away. With a bestie. Howeve...
lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: Ticking
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2015/08/ticking.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Friday, August 7, 2015. The days go by slowly, but the years go by fast.". This came from a lovely woman who helped me negotiate my daughter's stroller up the gangway of the ferry from Martha's Vineyard to Cape Cod. We had visited my best friend and her family. Her children, at 12-, 10- and 7-years old, seemed impossibly grownup. The days go by slowly, but the years go by fast.". Then one day you realize that you haven't in weeks. Or months. Or years. I'm not at the top of h...
lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: Concerts (and Cookies)
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2014/10/concerts-and-cookies.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Tuesday, October 28, 2014. It's official. My seventeen year old daughter is a groupie. This isn't something I planned for. Who does really? We all want the best for our children, and here in suburban New England, most moms like me have rather lofty goals. A lawyer, maybe. A veterinarian. A journalist. What immediately comes to mind is the movie Almost Famous. Suffice it to say, the film included plenty of sex and drugs as well as rock and roll. Years later, I was taking a bu...
lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: March 2015
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Monday, March 30, 2015. Don't Cry For Me, One Direction. Last summer, my now seventeen-year-old daughter spent ten days in Barcelona. She rode champion horses at a premiere dressage stable. She toured the city with its weird and wonderful Gaudi architecture. She tried new foods and may have even picked up a phrase or two of Spanish. Oh, and she went to a One Direction concert. His net worth is estimated at $215 million. Wow Apparently, manners matter to One Direction (even M...
lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: What's Really Going On in Their Heads? A Lot!
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2015/07/whats-really-going-on-in-their-heads-lot.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Monday, July 20, 2015. What's Really Going On in Their Heads? If you're the parent of a teenager, you may sometimes (often? Find yourself rolling your eyes, shaking your head and resisting (or not) the urge to ask "What is going on in your head? With all due respect to Dorothy's Scarecrow, some days (with most teens) it's hard to remember that there's a brain in there at all. It's no wonder we get so frustrated when these seeming adults act like children. Paying attention, r...
lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: Sports Equipment and Other Best Friends
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2015/07/sports-equipment-and-other-best-friends.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Sports Equipment and Other Best Friends. I spent this past weekend with my daughter and her horse. This isn't exactly news — I spend most weekends with my daughter and her horse. Unless it's the dead of winter, in which case she spends the weekend with her horse and I watch old movies under "the best blanket in the world," a huge and cozy patchwork fleece made by my talented sister-in-law. Sunday morning was sunny and very very hot. The girls le...
lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: In A State
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2015/08/in-state.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Monday, August 3, 2015. I've said it before. My teenage daughter is a groupie. It's official. Actually, it's been official for quite some time. She started going to concerts a couple of years ago. Mostly, she goes to hear bands that I've never heard of at venues I've never been to. In fact, when one of her bands makes it big (like Imagine Dragons did after they were covered on Glee. Ticket prices soar; suddenly. And our mother-daughter evening in Boston. Luckily, my husband ...
lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: Straight? Gay? Bi? Or Complicated?
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2015/07/straight-gay-bi-or-complicated.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Growing up in middle America, a lot of my contemporaries didn't know any gay people until they were adults. (Well, realistically, they almost certainly did know some but, in the 1960s and 70s. I have to remind myself that no matter how nice their shoes are, I can't really relate until I've walked in them. Our daughter stopped and thought for a minute, then said, "I don't think there was a bride.". It's great to see so much less "to do" being made....
lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: May 2015
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2015_05_01_archive.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Saturday, May 30, 2015. The Unbearable Lightness of Charlie Charlie. Having been inundated with news stories the last couple of days, I turned to my teenage daughter and asked, "Do you know what Charlie Charlie is? Of course." I detected the slightest eye roll. Have you tried it? At this point, she gave me one of those loaded looks that speaks so eloquently without any words at all. "As if! It seemed to say, "Why would I waste my time on something like that? To participate i...
lovinthealien.blogspot.com
Lovin' the Alien: Goodnight Tween
http://lovinthealien.blogspot.com/2011/08/goodnight-tween.html
Thoughts on mothering a teen. Monday, August 29, 2011. We are away this week, enjoying a final family vacation before it all begins again. Five days on the coast of Maine. No cell phones, no email, no texting. Heaven! So, I thought I'd entertain you with that timeless childhood classic, Goodnight Moon. Reinterpreted for a . well . more complicated age. In the great blue room, there was a tired tween. Who had just made a scene. And a picture of . Karen O'Connor, Olympian queen. And there were three CDs.
