You can take the girl out of entertainment reporting, but you apparently can’t take the entertainment reporting out of the girl. I have to talk about the Duggars. I just have to. No, I’m not going to rant about their views on marriage, sexuality, education, populating the world, their obsession with the letter J […]
The One Lesson We Need to Teach Our Sons
All parents want to do right by their kids. We all have a list of lessons that we want to teach them or else we’ll feel like we’ve failed as parents. What’s on my list for my son? Teaching him to be kind.Teaching him to have empathy.Teaching him to be […]
Can I Please Eat My Pickle in Peace?
As a married woman of childbearing age, I cannot eat a pickle in peace. No, if I casually mention to someone that I had some deliciously sour pickles, if I eat one at lunch in public, or—heaven forbid!—post about the fact that I’m craving one on any form of social media, the state of […]
5 Reasons I’m in Big Trouble As a Mom
Most of the time, I look at my toddler and see a baby. A perfect, sweet, smiley, dimpled, slightly crazy baby. And sometimes I look at him and see him as a grown man. Or at least a teenager who’s going to give me a heart attack someday. Because I’ve realized that there are […]
The Best Parenting Advice I've Ever Gotten
My best friend Carrie would’ve been an awesome mom. Beyond awesome. She was loving, exuberant, brilliant and sassy, and she had just the right dose of crazy mixed in. Maybe a little extra crazy, but in the best ways possible. She would’ve been the type of mom to stay up late […]
9 Universal Truths About Babies
Babies—they’re just like us! Only smaller…and cuter…and louder…and poopier. Right? Wrong. Well, I mean, they are technically little humans, unless you’re dealing with a Rosemary’s Baby or Renesmee situation. (In which case, you should really, um, talk to someone about that.) But babies are so different than adults, they […]
Dear Toddler: Ketchup Isn't a Food Group
Keep your fancy sandwiches with your un-American cheese. Keep your charbroiled-to-perfection burgers. Keep your panko-and-parmesan-crusted chicken that had the audacity not to come out of a freezer box. Keep your great-grandmother’s four-generations-tested lasagna and those weird noodles. And certainly keep your vegetables unless…unless…never mind. Keep your vegetables. No, my toddler […]
9 Ways Life with Kids Is Like a Circus
You know how everyone always jokes that once you have kids, your life becomes a total circus? Here’s a little harsh reality for you: It’s not a joke. Your life is a circus. And you are the hapless ringmaster. There’s no use trying to fight it. So put on your sparkliest cape (from […]
Warning: Bossy Toddler on the Loose!
I feel like I’m living in Footloose. And not in the good “Kevin Bacon is awesome” way. In the “I’ve got a little dictator telling me what to do” way. “No dancing!!!” Such has been the decree of my 2-and-a-half-year-old lately, and it alternates with: “No singing!!!” Not all the time, but sporadically, […]
Got a Plan for the Apocalypse?
You’re going to think I’m nuts, but the week before last, I asked my husband if he had an emergency plan if New York City gets hit by the plague. This wasn’t a tongue-in-cheek, hypothetical conversation discussing the zombie apocalypse—though I kind of tested the waters by having a semi-flippant attitude, in case he […]
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