Jen Smedley and Kristin Hensley

About this event

Are you a mom of a middle schooler? Then you may already be experiencing the special chaos of raising a newly minted teen while also experiencing the wild ride of midlife yourself. Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, the duo behind #IMomSoHard, are very familiar with your predicament. Drawing from their book, The Middle School Mom’s Survival Guide, they’d like to offer advice for this new stage of motherhood. That’s because they have been there too. Smedley and Hensley thought they’d hit their stride. They’d survived the baby years, built a massive online community of millions by sharing their parenting fails, and even wrote a New York Times bestselling book about those early years. Then midlife crashed the party—with hot flashes, unrelenting chin hair, itchy skin, brain fog, constant irritability, and a body that suddenly seems determined to make every situation more complicated—just as their kids transformed into emotional, eye-rolling roommates. Being a mom of a middle schooler is no joke, but Smedley and Hensley will try to lighten the mood while offering real advice on marriage, parenting through text messages, spending hours in the car, handing your kid a smartphone, navigating changing friendships and social pressures, dealing with aging parents, and learning to let go while still somehow staying in charge.

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