Janie Williams of Richmond, mother of two boys, 14 and 17, says that growing up, her parents did not talk to her or her brother about alcohol. It was understood…
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Growing A Business While Raising A Family I am not afraid to admit it, I have a full plate. I often say my glass is entirely full. Do you remember…
International travel with the kids. As these words sunk in, I began to have doubts. Were we crazy? Was I going to regret this? If you’re reading this and grappling with…
What is the point exactly? That’s what I want to know. It’s the question I ask, silently, every time I hear a mother chronicling every last detail of her agonizing…
All right, kids, you’ve waited all year for it, and now it’s finally here. Time for our annual trip to the beach, and pretty soon we’ll be on the road…
Q: Help! My three-month-old baby cries all the time and doesn’t sleep more than three hours at a time. I wasn’t planning on returning to work until after she was older…
My children have specific criteria for their ideal backpacks. One insists on monkey graphics and the other a sports motif. If you and your child select a brand new backpack…
Why your kids need to see you fail and deal with it in a reasonable way. How messing up and moving on is a good thing – in parenting and in life.
So, it is summer, and some of you are probably planning to send your children to camp for the first time. I have three words of advice: Don’t do it.…
Q: We have a 3-year-old with a typically short attention span.Both my husband and i work outside the home. The hour before dinner is so hectic, we are trying to…
People often say that kids are like sponges, effortlessly absorbing all the information they encounter. How true!Consider kids who are exposed to two languages in their home and are bilingual…
We were done. As in, we had decided on two kids, and I knew we were done. Yet, there I was, pregnant as all get-out, swollen with impending motherhood –…