When people ask what qualifies me to be a parenting editor, I rattle off bits of my resume that explain why The Huffington Post might have entrusted this section to me. What they really want to know, though, is do I have kids and how old are they?
I...
(45) Comments | Posted March 5, 2012 | 6:39 PM
I enjoy telling my birth story, but it's a lot like answering the "how did you meet your significant other?" question. I never know how much detail the person asking really wants.
There's the short version (induced, epidural, pushed). Then there's the long story -- why I...
(72) Comments | Posted February 16, 2012 | 12:35 AM
The first time I saw "Wonder Pets," I started texting several friends -- some parents, some child-free -- "Omygod put on Nick Jr. right now. There is a duck who can't say her r's and a turtle and hamster and they are wearing capes and saving a baby panda!" The...
(185) Comments | Posted January 21, 2012 | 11:35 PM
There are many things I worry about when it comes to childcare. During my maternity leave, I couldn't figure out who would take care of my daughter if she didn't get into the one place we'd applied to while I was pregnant. (She didn't.) Then, we found an appealing alternative...
(109) Comments | Posted September 16, 2011 | 5:50 PM
At a special screening of "I Don't Know How She Does It," the new movie starring Sarah Jessica Parker based on Allison Pearson's 2002 story of modern working motherhood, it seemed like everyone in the room was a mom. You could hear the entire audience, myself included, sniffling when Kate...
(10) Comments | Posted August 2, 2011 | 8:37 PM
After my daughter was born, 18 months ago, I started a list of the things nobody told me about parenting. The idea that you will do anything to get your child to go to sleep--and stay asleep--made its debut on the list at #1. Right behind #2: The bouncing! So...
(18) Comments | Posted May 13, 2012 | 12:29 PM