When my daughter was a toddler, she was fond of giving big, sloppy kisses on your mouth- or your ear, cheek, foot…Really, the kid was a smooching machine and…
Everyone seems to be going on great vacations and magical summer adventures—Disney, week-long beach trips, weeks at the lake. Kids are doing amazing half-day camps seemingly tailor-made to…
“Eww…you have a creepy-hair on your back! Can I pluck it!?” is something I would never, ever say to my wife, but I have heard numerous times from…
I saw a facebook post the other day where a mom said that their family go-to word during the tween years is “W.T.E.Q” which stands for “Well, that…
Dear Graduates, Thank you for inviting me here to speak to you. I know you’re expecting I’ve come to tell you the world belongs to you and then…
We have a female-dominated household; my husband is the only dude among us. And, if I do say so myself, each one of our three daughters is a…
My son and I spend a lot of time in the common area of our James Island townhouse complex. It’s a big grassy field – nothing special and…
The mantra for my mothering style is this: don’t be an asshole. A solid rule for the kid, but also for me. Wouldn’t it be rad if all…
His name was Marshal. I met him the summer before my freshman year of high school. He was the first boy who confirmed what I’d already suspected. Marshal…
We homo sapiens love to think that our primary capacity to reason, process and respond to massive and little details of everyday life in a manner that self-reflects sanity makes us the ultimate beneficiaries of evolution. That our unique ability to delve deep to the repercussions of our next course of action before undertaking them