If Your Kid Loses Focus Easily, This Overlooked Reason Could be Why
If reading and writing overwhelms your elementary schooler, a functional eye exam could give some helpful answers.
The Limitless(ish) Potential and Romance I Found at the Dollar Store
I have an unbridled love for Dollar Stores. Mostly because they represent possibility on the simplest level.
The Versatile Tool You'll Always Find in my Make-up Bag
My aim is to get out the door without looking like a disheveled banshee. If I'm strapped for time, I only need one tool for that: clear mascara.
What Can the US Learn From France When it Comes to ADHD?
The way France defines, treats, and prevents ADHD could shed light on how to better treat the condition here in America,
Six Simple Ways to Be There for a Friend Who's Grieving
When a friend is grieving, our natural inclination is to offer comfort, but often we don’t know how. Here are six things you can do that help.
Knowing When Friendship Has Run its Course
I’ve always gone with my gut feeling and my gut was definitely telling me to let go.
Studies Show Perhaps Video Games Aren’t Destroying Kids’ Brains After All
Several recent studies have explored how video games can enhance perception, attention, memory, and decision-making.
How to Listen Without Getting Defensive
Understanding your partner requires the capacity to listen. Really listen. Couples are advised to hear each other’s complaints without feeling attacked. As great as this sounds, it’s often unrealis...
Head Lice Happens: The Nine Lousy Circles of Hell
Forget Dante’s nine circles of hell. If you have kids in elementary school, you’ve already lived through worse: Head lice.
Finding Myself in That Strange Reflection
I’m struggling to get used to the person who looks back at me in the mirror, whose entire being is so different than I remember.
Stay at Home Parents: Nurture Your Adult Relationships – Not Just Your Kids
There are a few tricks to feel less alienated from your beloved adult relationships. Because you do deserve to have them.
Can Screen-Time Result in Speech Delays? AAP Study Suggests it Might
Researchers admit it’s too early to establish a causal relationship between screen time and speech delays, but it's worth exploring the possibility.
Extroverts Are Way More Awkward Than Introverts
Stereotypes persist. Introverts are socially awkward, extroverts work the crowd with ease and confidence. Not so.
Tips to Help You Make it Out the Door On Time (and Still Look Presentable)
My morning routine is a work-in-progress, but having a framework has saved me from complete a.m. insanity.
Alexa’s Latest Avatar Steps In To ‘Rescue’ Spouses
Women can now take the “How do I look?” query to one of our tried-and-tested sources of joy: Amazon.
Jimmy Kimmel Pulled at My Own Congenitally Defected Heartstrings
I can take the multiple open heart surgeries, the complications, the insurance battles, the fears, and the changed life. But you do not mess with my kids.
Why Product Warning Labels Assume Everyone's a Total Idiot
We are warned that bags of peanuts contain peanuts, the contents of a coffee cup may be hot, and Lego sets contain small parts. Who is that looking out for?
Leaving plenty of time for your date with Netflix.
Genetic Testing – How Much Information is Too Much Information?
A new phenomenon called “recreational genetic testing” has arrived. As parents, we will have some arduous ethical decisions to ponder.
Fighting and Losing the Battle of the Junk
What if, instead of constant decluttering, and then re-cluttering with new things, we brought in less in the first place?
There Is a Song Inside of You Yet
What you feel right now is real. It is not your fault. This is not where it ends.
Always Have a Friend Who Saves You From Yourself
You’re more than a mother, with interests, opinions and guilty pleasures to discuss. She's not going to let you forget that.
The Art of Taking Things Literally is an Art of Childhood
Childhood is littered with literal misinterpretations.
5 Signs We’re Tired of Talking Politics
We’re talking an “off” day from the rigorous mental routine we’ve subjected ourselves to for the last long while.