There is little worse than being in an airport at Christmas. Everyone is running… everywhere. You cannot turn around without someone sneezing and/or coughing directly in your face. Flights are cancelled or delayed, turning people into angry, name-calling thugs, who will patiently wait in line only to unleash their fury on some random airline official.

Let’s face it: Many of us pump up the volume when we discipline our kids. Here’s how to stop. Count to 10. It sounds silly, I know, but it works! Use the 10-words-or-less rule. If you give your kids a timeout, send them off with 10 words or less (for example, “Timeout for hitting your […]

When parenting duties were being divvied up, I somehow drew the short straw. My husband John comes from strict Baptist stock, the kind of people who don’t talk about sex because it may lead to dancing, or worse, cards.

You know the art of cooking has reached rock bottom when young adults can’t conquer making Kraft Dinner. I was reading about one 20-year-old woman who was asked to make KD for the kids she was babysitting.

Being a mom can suck from time to time–schlepping a noisy carload of kids to outer Suburbia for Little League; making eleventh-hour trips to the hardware store to pick up parts for the science project your kid forgot was due the next day; or, having to vacation at a theme park rather than on the […]

After I pumped out two kids in less than two years, my husband and I decided it was time to take birth control more seriously. We opted for the barrier method. The barriers were the two small kids who slept curled up between us. God knows we tried to get them to sleep in their […]

It has been a quiet Saturday. My younger son Micah is in Cuba for some fun in the sun with his high school graduating class. My older son Jake is ensconced hundreds of miles away at university. This leaves my husband John and me all by our lonesome. John observed, “Pretty soon it will be […]

It is easy to think being the child of divorce is all bad. According to the research, kids from broken families are more likely to smoke, be on Ritalin, suffer from lower self esteem, drop out of school, suffer a stroke, and die earlier than kids from intact families.

In 2007, newlyweds Pam and Geoff MacDonald (and their purebred Alaskan Malamute, Taq) launched their canoe from Victoria, British Columbia and began what would become an epic adventure: a cross-country canoe trip.

You gotta meet this kid Max. Just ask his classmates. He’s an “awesome,” “sweet,” “one-of-a-kind” 7-year-old boy battling brain cancer. We all know that the Rainbow Loom is the hottest toy of the year, and Max has gone loom crazy. He is the master loomer behind Super Max’s Loom-A-Thon Against Cancer and his story will […]