Melissa Heckscher

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  • Published Work
    • A Baby Without Anxiety? Maybe This Time
    • Addicted to Love?
    • For Parents with HIV, Starting a Family Isn’t What it Used to Be
    • Former Dating Columnist on Other Side of White Picket Fence
    • Human-Elephant Conflict, Explained
    • Take it from This Pooch: It’s a Dog-Eat-Dog World
    • Watching His Mother’s Life Go Up in Flames
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  • To My Children’s Teachers on Teacher Appreciation Day: Thank You For Keeping Us Going

    To My Children’s Teachers on Teacher Appreciation Day: Thank You For Keeping Us Going

    Dear Teachers, I just want you to know, there are days when I want to give up on this whole “distance learning” thing. There are days that I want to close my eyes and surrender—to let my kids plug themselves into Youtube or Xbox or whatever device they’d rather watch instead of doing school. Because,…

    Melissa Heckscher

    May 4, 2020
    Uncategorized
  • To My Friends on Facebook: I’m Not as Good of a Mom As You Think I Am

    TO: My Friends on Facebook   Maybe you’ve seen my Facebook posts lately? The ones chronicling the slew of things we’ve been doing since this dreaded lockdown started? Take that video of my 5-year-old “surfing”—the one that shows her balancing on a boogie board propped on pillows, in front of a TV airing POV surf videos—that…

    Melissa Heckscher

    April 11, 2020
    Uncategorized
  • A Letter to My Middle Child

    A Letter to My Middle Child

    Dear Middle Child, I’m sorry that your sister was crying while you were getting your award at the school assembly today.

    Melissa Heckscher

    March 13, 2019
    Uncategorized
  • I Resolve to Stop Rushing

    I Resolve to Stop Rushing

    We were late again. The daily morning chaos had unfurled in all its glory:  Oldest Child was refusing to eat breakfast (this time because of a newly-erupted canker sore); Middle Child was lackadaisically searching the house for his shoes (which would inevitably be found a full 5 minutes later right by the door). Youngest Child,…

    Melissa Heckscher

    January 15, 2019
    Uncategorized
  • The Day I Broke My Daughter’s Finger

    The Day I Broke My Daughter’s Finger

    The kittens were about to run away. My 3-year-old daughter and I had just walked inside from the street and the kittens were trying to make a run for it. They were our 12-week-old foster kittens, and they weren’t supposed to be outside. I reacted, screaming simply: “The kittens!” as I lunged for the door…

    Melissa Heckscher

    July 15, 2018
    Uncategorized
  • To the Horrible Person I Become When My Husband Gets A Cold

    To the Horrible Person I Become When My Husband Gets A Cold

    Dear Horrible Person I Become When My Husband Gets A Cold: I don’t know where you came from or why you take over every time hubby gets a sniffle, but something’s got to change. I know you’re busy. I know that sniffle gives you one more thing to take care of in your taking-care-of-everything schedule.…

    Melissa Heckscher

    February 11, 2018
    Uncategorized
  • When the Bully is Your Brother

    When the Bully is Your Brother

    This article was originally published in the Daily Breeze, 2016.  The boxing gloves fit his tiny hands the way Daddy’s leather shoes fit his feet. But there he was: My 4-year-old elf child — standing a good six inches smaller than everyone else — with a punching bag hanging in front of him like an…

    Melissa Heckscher

    April 18, 2016
    Uncategorized
  • An Open Letter to My TV

    photo: Flickr Creative Commons Dear TV, Some people call you a babysitter. They say that sitting a toddler in front of you is a no-no, that using you to keep kids quiet is up there with giving babies iPhones to quell crying fits. But I just wanted to say: Thank you. You, my dear TV,…

    Melissa Heckscher

    February 7, 2016
    Uncategorized
  • To the Crazy Person Living Inside My 3-Year-Old

    To the Crazy Person Living Inside My 3-Year-Old

    Dear Crazy Person Living Inside My 3-Year-Old, I’m sorry I pushed the garage door button. I forgot that you go absolutely bonkers when deprived of the opportunity to push any sort of button. I was in a hurry, and I wasn’t thinking. My bad. I’m also sorry for turning off the TV in the middle…

    Melissa Heckscher

    February 7, 2016
    Uncategorized
  • An Open Letter to Perfect Moms

    An Open Letter to Perfect Moms

    To the moms who give their kids bento boxes from the Pottery Barn and fill them with things like dried kale and edamame beans instead of Cheerios and chips: You make me feel inadequate.  Just today, I let my two-year-old have a popsicle for breakfast (sure, he ate some egg and cheese first, but still:…

    Melissa Heckscher

    February 7, 2016
    parenting, Uncategorized
    lunchbox, perfect moms
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