Dear Perfect Mom at the playground: I don’t know how you do it but every time I see you at the playground you look clean. No food, tears…
When it comes to listening to parental lectures, speeches, sermons, and monologues, children have long had rather short attention spans and questionable recall, at best. Unless, of course,…
Most nights, if I don’t read a story to my daughter, she asks me to tell her a story. I don’t think I am a bad story-teller, but…
Gerber Ferber Shmerber. I’ve had it up to here with the experts. Whoever made the joke that “children don’t come with instructions” obviously didn’t live in the Google…
That’s my kid. The tall one that you’re non-whispering about on the sidelines. Who is that kid? He’s so tall. He must be too old for this league. Let me assure…
I’ve discovered a species of parents worse than the PTA moms- the athletic association dads. My experience with them is limited to basketball, but feel free to insert…
If moms whose children have an honest-to-god food allergy, one that could literally end their life, endure criticism and eye-rolling, you can only imagine the smack being laid…
I opened my mailbox last week to discover four yellow absentee ballots. This year marks the first time both my children will be voting in a national election.…
My seventeen year old daughter was almost ready to leave the house last night when, without taking my eyes from the television show I love, I called out…
What on God’s green earth is wrong with people? If I hear one more yoga-panted person spouting off about being positive about every damn thing, I am going…