Let's call them The Allergy Generation. They are the approximate two million children in the U.S. who are growing up with life-threatening food allergies. Their immune systems are in overdrive, unable to distinguish between a deadly parasite, a spoonful of yogurt or a...

If you've seen the show Mad Men then you're already familiar with Betty Draper's off putting yet alluring character. In the majority of her scenes she's located in a plaid-coordinated suburban kitchen staring blankly at her children while discontentedly huffing a cigarette....

Who doesn't love a tasty snack? I do. But unlike many children, I understand why a packet of Oreos or Sun Chips will taste better than it makes me feel. President Obama obviously understands the importance of good nutrition and this fall he...

It seems there has been a recent counter trend towards laid back, or as coined by clever writers -- "slow" or "free range" -- parenting. I can't take credit for spotting this movement. Lisa Belkin just wrote an insightful New York Times article...

This isn't about J.D. Salinger's right to legally block the publication of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by J.D. California. This is about love and the adolescent inability to separate real life from fiction; the tantalizing privileges of adulthood from the rewards of childhood fantasy. It is...

During the earliest years of my son's life, while he was successively diagnosed with eczema, multiple food allergies and asthma, there was an immunologist-biologist hard at work - he was forcing hookworm larvae into flesh of his arm. The immunologist, David Pritchard, hoped that the worms would cross his skin...

My son, Eden, was three years old before he revealed the limits of his lungs (read: allergic asthma.) It happened after what already seemed like a lifetime of severe food allergies. When the Big Kahuna - peanuts, milk, etc. - rode in on his blood work, our allergist warned...