
Why It Hurts So Much When Your Kids Mess Up
It wasn’t just about what he’d done the night before. It was about what I’ve been doing for the past 18 years.

Bring Your Son’s Ukulele to Work Day
The older child made a request: Please bring me my ukulele. And a coffee maker. And coffee. The ukulele, I could see. When one is spending the month at a precollege program, sleeping in the dorms and sitting in class all day, a young man needs his ukulele. Of course. But the coffee maker? In […]

A Letter to the Peeta (20 and under) Generation of Men
You’re being raised to believe that girls can do anything and boys don’t have to do everything.

If Sayreville Had Happened to Girls
Because it happened to boys by boys from the same high school football team, the words chosen to describe what happened don’t match up to the crimes charged.

Parenting with Expensive Lessons, Not Excessive Nagging
This is a story about a boy and a car and two bald tires, one with a hole in it. The boy knew he shouldn’t do that to his tires, but he did it anyway, because he was young and he had a new (used) car and he was the first among his friends to […]