I've seen countless articles maligning parents' use of smartphones, blaming our beloved electronic rectangles for turning us into distracted, checked-out moms missing beautiful, priceless...
Gardening with your child is a wonderful way to teach them about responsibility and healthy food choices, while fostering an appreciation of their natural...
In a cold room a frail girl sits alone, her small hands resting on a frigid tabletop, her legs are shaking and her mind...
Now that school's out for summer, what are you and your kids going to do to fill the days? How about berry picking? It...
Last week on the Today Show, Kathie and Hoda discussed their disapproval of the brelfie (breastfeeding selfie) on their segment "OK! Or Not OK"....
Receiving a call at work from my mom is always a rarity. Since age 18, I have worked 40 hours a week. At 20,...
It amazes me how two kids from the same gene pool can be so completely different from one another in almost every way. For instance,...
At some point when I was in high school, my mom - naturally beautiful and down-to-earth - was walking up to my sister's tennis...
Good kids sometimes express their needs in bad ways. They hit, they scream, they bite, they tattle, they whine and they simply don't listen....
Several years ago, my now five-year-old (she was two or three at the time) wandered into the bathroom as I was putting on make-up...
When my husband and I decided to wait to find out the sex of our first child, one thing I was excited about was...
Last week, I was made aware of a new phenomenon known as the “Dad Bod.” If you haven’t heard of it (you definitely will),...
Someone once said that forced kindness is a lethal destroyer of happiness. I love when my son is kind to me, to others, to himself....
Being the mother of a 13 year old is challenging and it often seems that I have forgotten what it's like to be a teenager....