Parenting

Getting your daughter ready for middle school can be tough - how exactly do you prepare her for Mean Girls Act Two, social storms that shatter friendships and a challenging academic load all while morphing from the body of a child into that of a young adult?

Friends, family, and perfect strangers all said it gets easier as the kids get older. News Flash! No it doesn't.

What's a mom to do when her husband and son bond like they're frat boys?

My job is to teach my kids to be good, decent, hard-working, kind and compassionate people who don't behave like jackasses. And I can't accomplish any of that if I'm worried about how much they like me.

Idyllic summer evenings... the happy sounds of the neighborhood kids playing outside ... laughing .... squealing ... screaming in pain at the top of their lungs...

Here's what I've decided to tell my kids about this crazy roller-coaster ride called life that someone thought it would be funny to dump us on.

I stopped buying strawberries, even though the rest of us love them, because some people have as much self-control as a goat in a supermarket.

School break isn't quite so liberating from the perspective of a parent. Unless, of course, you're on a tropical beach with a large piña colada in each hand.

Less than half of all kids in the U.S. today live with both biological parents until they reach adulthood. The impacts of this— on the children and society as a whole — are legion. Here's what parents who live apart need to do to help their children thrive. Advice from former family court judge Greg Blass.

At one time, I was a normal person. I slept until the alarm went off. I made and then ate my breakfast, while it was still hot. I took my time in the shower. Then, I had kids.