Parenting is a series of ever-increasing circles of distance you let your children get away from you before you freak out and pull them back in close. When they are…
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We just spent a weekend with my brother’s family, and it broke my heart! His kids get along perfectly. What can I do about the perpetual fighting that goes on between…
It’s check-up season, and you hear the pediatrician ask, “Is there anything we should give special attention to at today’s visit?” Your mind goes immediately to the big changes you’ve…
Summer time has flown by and getting ready for school is on many parents’ minds. Having to get school supplies, looking at class schedules, going to fee nights become part…
For the first sixteen months of her life, my daughter Jayda, who at ten is already two inches taller than me, stayed with my mother or her father during the…
My twins will turn five at the end of this month. They are currently signed up for kindergarten in September, but I am concerned that my little boy is not…
There is no relationship quite like that of a grandparent and grandchild. Grandparents universally speak of the joy it brings. In her book, Becoming Grandma, Leslie Stahl writes, “There is…
Just look at you now. Thirteen years old and well over five feet tall. At ninety pounds, you weigh far more than I did when I was your age, and…
You’re a parent. You are busy. All the time. If you had one wish, you would choose to stop the world for a few hours, just long enough to catch…
To some, a credit score might seem like an arbitrary number we’re given. But it’s really data representing your credit responsibility and future financial wellbeing. Credit scores determine what steps…
Lily Goodman of Richmond is the poster child, literally, for human trafficking, though she isn’t herself a victim. A successful child model for more than a decade, at age twelve…
Have you ever felt stuck in a rut and tired of doing the same old summer activities? I know we feel that way sometimes. Each summer, my kids choose a…