Parenting

Competitive sports start very young. Too young. At an age where kids should be playing a variety of sports, feeling out their interests and talents, parents are being asked to make some very big decisions. If a kid shows...

When I was growing up I thought therapy was a bad thing. I thought it involved lying on a couch while you talked to someone who took curiously secretive notes and peered over you from their spectacles. Perhaps I...

Ah, the sounds of summer...birds chirping, lawn mowers humming, kids splashing in pools, and... "Mom, I'm booorrred." I'm going to stop right here and say that I'm a proponent of year-round school (as a majority of the teachers gasp and say...

If you had to engrave a piece of jewelry with a quick phrase, a reminder to yourself daily, what would it be? Throughout all the seasons of my life, I’ve picked a motto or some thought that I repeat to...

Since the moment my son was born, I've had this strange, otherworldly feeling like I can't believe he's real. I catch myself gazing at him wondering how the heck I was ever so lucky to get to be his...

It's not just my kids. It can't be. Surely not.  There's a running joke in our house about 'toddler blood oaths.' You see, our kids, be they two or almost five, will forget their shoes, their underwear, the direction in...

Last week, I stood in line behind a mom and her two-year-old at a children's consignment store. Mom was trying to purchase a toddler-sized card table while her son clutched the table like it was his lifeline. The kind...