Jennifer Lehr

Do you feel like that's just the way it is? If your kids don't do what you say and you've asked nicely more than once and they continue to "push your buttons" and "test your patience", do you feel justified in your yelling? Or threatening? Your counting down? Your infliction...

My friend Daniel wrote this where he is living in Switzerland and I wanted to share it with Huffpo readers. -- Jennifer Lehr

It Gets Better by Daniel Hernandez

I am absolutely furious & heartbroken over these young gay kids, Asher Brown & Seth Walsh, committing suicide.

I am going...

For the first time ever, on Monday night at 7pm at the Autry Museum in Los Feliz our new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and our new LAFD Chief Millage Peaks will hear your concerns and answer our questions.

Yes, crime is down. But how can we keep it down? And...

Given Roman Polanski's history as a persecuted Jew during the Holocaust, I can understand his panicking, skipping bail and fleeing the United States. What I don't understand is why, once he got his wits about him, he didn't return and face the music. How could he live with himself? And...

This morning I received an e-mail that's being forwarded around written by a woman named Anne Kilkenny, a resident of Wasilla. In her letter detailing Palin's impact on Wasilla, she explains that most who know Palin won't speak publicly for fear of retribution.

Kilkenny says that she feels compelled to...

I had just started pushing Jules in a swing at the park when up to the sandbox strolled Theo, a petite two-year-old, proudly carrying a big orange drum and a single drumstick.
He put his drum down and was about to bang away, when a much taller three-year-old...

Yesterday I got two identical mass e-mails from people who don't usually send them. One of them being my mother! So I gave them a bit more than the cursory look before deleting. The e-mail said that we can really work together and get gas prices down to $2.00 a...

What the hell?

Highly unusual circumstances have doused you with exaggerated powers that affect the entire world. And I think it's gone straight to your collective heads. What are 212 (?) of you doing? Milking it.

Al Gore I can understand. I mean after all if he committed his...

Dear Vice-President Gore,

I'm a fan. I deeply respect your tireless work on behalf of our earth. However, I can't help but wish you'd bring some of the determination and drive you have for that cause, to the cause of the Democratic party--both of which I think are extremely intertwined.

I know I posted about this same topic yesterday, but I'm still hung up on it.

Geraldine Ferraro basically implied that Barack Obama is getting the black votes just because he's black.

Now, certainly I can understand people wanting to vote for their historically denied-a-voice race or sex. I'm...

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." ...

I've been totally obsessed with the primaries. Last night, from our bed, my husband, John, watched the Super Bowl with his headsets on. I sat next to him with my headsets on watching the Obama rally at UCLA on my laptop, tearing up when Caroline Kennedy introduced Maria Shriver. (I'm...

If Martin Luther King can preach and live no violence against people who hated, degraded and even killed his fellow African-Americans and was able to find another more powerful way to make his point then surely you, Sherri, and all of us as parents can figure out a way to...

Somehow I'm on author Sara Davidson's e-mail list. And this morning, while trying to write a piece myself, I heard the little blip sound that tells me I have an e-mail. Because I love an excuse to stop working for a minute, I read the e-mail...and was happy to be...

Before I got pregnant I didn't give a single detail of life with a baby any thought. It never crossed my mind to wonder how often a baby naps, how long it takes to breastfeed, how often you have to breastfeed, how long one might want to keep breastfeeding or...

Dear Readers,

Ten years ago I started writing the memoir Ill-Equipped for a Life of Sex--the book this column is named after. Seven years later it was published. That same year, my husband John and I started pitching a tv show based on the book. After just about million...

Dear Jennifer,

One kid or two? My husband and I are continually going back and forth on this one and change our minds daily....so another opinion is welcome. And I know you said you have a baby, so what are you going to do? My clock is running out so...

This week instead of my usual Ill-Equipped column, I have something to tell you about...

Two of our chicest friends, Tim Aitkens, a history buff who I love to hear talk about anything and Kevin Corn, an interior designer who is even more handsome than the homes he blesses with...

Dear Jennifer,

Ever since I read your book I've been dying to pick your brain so I can get some insight into my flailing relationship. So, here goes.

I have met a wonderful man. We've been together for a year and a half. He is so much...

Jennifer Lehr answers your questions about sex, love, and relationships every week on Fearless Voices. To send her a question, email Jennifer

Dear Jennifer:

My wife and I have been married for eleven years. We have a beautiful three-year-old daughter who has...a sleep disorder! This means she's up...