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Ending the Dinner Dash

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home

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The personal is political, the second wave feminists liked to say and nothing showcases the hard choices modern mothers face like the issue of what we feed our families.

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Men Who 'Halve' It All

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home

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In journalism we have a saying: Dog bites man is not a story. Man bites dog is. Which is why it says something about our society that reporter Lisa Belkin chose to profile Marc and Amy Vachon for her recent New York Times magazine cover story on "When Mom and Dad Share it All."

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A Happy Mom's Secret: Don't Do Your Own Laundry

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home

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Laundry has long been the bane of many a mother's existence. If you've got small kids who roll in the dirt, wipe their noses on their sleeves and spill milk on their pants, loads of it can pile up.

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Why Your Husband Won't Do Laundry

Louise Sloan | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

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A researcher at the University of New Hampshire just isolated the "inability to do housework or hands-on childcare" gene in men.

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Old? No, We're Just Older

Candy Spelling | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home

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I had no worries when the Beatles wondered about life "when I'm 64," or when the Who sang they hoped to "die before I get old." We were never getting old.

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