
PARENTING TOGETHER APART: When Your Ex Has a New Significant Other
It’s likely this person will make you (and your kids!) uncomfortable. That’s normal.

Stop Telling Me Where My 8th Grader is
One text every few hours allows the chaperones to concentrate on the thankless job of herding a few hundred 14-year-olds through the sites of our nation’s capitol without parental interruption.

MommaSaid: Don’t Let Summer Break Break You
5.You know that fake blood left over from Halloween? Yeah? Well, you know those water pistols in the garage? Guess what…

Reasons My Son is Crying = Future Therapy
When Tumblr is involved, it says, “Your misery is for my amusement and those of my friends and total strangers, over and over and over again.”

Staring at Candy: When it Was All About You.
I imagine that when my kids graduate high school and go off to college, I’ll begin to stare absentmindedly at candy and potato chips once again

REEL LIFE WITH JANE: The Great Gatsby
The movie doesn’t disappoint, and the $51.1 million box office draw on opening weekend is evidence of that.

First Graders Checking Out Porn? Really.
While I am certain there are parents whose kids are regularly seeing what no child younger than my favorite pair of boots should ever see, I’ll bet quite a few are like my son, who was sitting on my lap while I made the mistake of searching for “cookies.”