DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My daughter, who is in 1st grade, has been complaining since the beginning of the school year about the boy in her class who is autistic and who among other things likes to to... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: I was raised Catholic and my wife is Jewish. We’ve always respected each other’s faiths and through the years, including before our son was born, attended each other’s religio... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: When I was five my mother booted my father out of our house. My parents were never married, only together for a real long time.... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My husband went to a K-12 private school run by his great-uncle. He is convinced one of the foremost reasons he got into Princeton was because of the superior start he had fro... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My grandmother passed suddenly in March and it is painful to see how my grandfather is still deeply hurting. He gave up on almost all his traveling to visit family, like he di... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: All my life I have been artistically expressive. My mom jokes I was born with a paintbrush in one hand and a sketching pencil in the other, which she further jokes made for a ... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: I grew up in a single-parent military family. My mom was not ever close with her family outside of one of her grandmas, which is part of the reason she joined the Air Force ri... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: After our company’s owner switched meds and had to go on a high fiber diet for health reasons, she started having a lot of flatulence.... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My family moved into a neighborhood transitioning from its original owners to a lot of young families, like mine. We happen to live next to one of the last of the original own... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My mother was the biggest helicopter mom out of all my friends’ moms, and that is saying something!... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My first real boyfriend also happens to be the son of my parents’ best friends. We grew up together and were a couple for about three years. It was a running prediction from b... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: A friend of ours a few blocks over had their lawnmower stolen from their fenced in backyard not quite three weeks ago.... more

DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: All my life, my mother has kept a sparkling house. She follows behind me and my dad to pick up water glasses in the living room before we have a chance to finish drinking from... more