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Do You Remember Life Before the Internet?
“What was life without internet?” my son asked me the other day. This question caught me off guard, you see even though I’m in my 40s, it’s hard for me to remember exactly what my life was like in the pre-internet era. Let me see, I spent the first 19 years of my life without internet. No cell phone. No laptop. No email. No social media. No iPads. No Netflix. You YouTube. No Waze. No Amazon Prime. My goodness! How did I get things done back then and what did I do with myself? I had to sit down for this one and really think it through. And I’m glad…
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Caring for the Emotional Health of Boys
Many of us Rocking Over 40 women are moms to tweens and teens. We know all too well that during this time, our kids start pulling away from us in an effort to be more independent. This post is for you if you’re a mom to a boy. I recently came across this article by Charlie Hoehn that shook me to the core and gave me a lot to think about. In the article, the author goes on to say that “we are a culture that continually neglects the emotional health of our boys and our men.” As a result, we have an “unhealthy ideal of masculinity that results in…
