So often, I receive feedback on my monthly parenting column. From community members to patients and church members, I’m constantly told how much people enjoy my articles. Many times, the feedback comes from parents of older kids or grandparents who say they “wish my parenting column was around when they were rearing their own children.” Readers also tell me they share my articles with their adult children who are now on parenting journeys of their own.

Over the past few years since I’ve been contributing to The Virginia Gazette, I’ve received many reactions to my articles, but I’ve never once had someone ask me to write about a certain parenting topic. That changed recently when my husband was giving a flu shot at one of our community vaccine clinics. A woman began telling him how much sh

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