For some time now, I've been developing the idea and practice of what I've called "inventing a therapy." The point has been, to my mind, that much of ...
Standards aren't the problem. Standards are great. When you have standards, it allows you to set goals in your life and hold yourself accountable. The problem is that people have the wrong standards -- ones they don't require of themselves.
Adults -- teachers and parents -- need to help children understand that making mistakes is a normal part of learning.
In contrast to our upbringing, we resolved to be a more constant presence in our children's lives. The problem is that these children are now dependent on their parents. As a mother of toddlers, how do I combat this trend and raise independent children, while still being an active participant in their childhood?
In my house I have one simple test for the necessity of baby proofing: if there is a possibility of death, or loss of a major limb, we must be vigilant. If not, then that is why Johnson and Johnson invented band-aids.
For a woman, a job isn't just a job. It's a comment on who she is.
There are two kinds of parents in the world. There are those who strive to re-create for their children the blissful upbringings that they themselves ...
Which authors get to sign at which New York locations is a tricky gavotte involving publishers, chain bookstores and other venues. In fact, independen...
It was two years ago today that Lori Gottlieb's Atlantic magazine article, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Right was released. The piece rai...
Not once in her endless lovelorn musings does Gottlieb ask: What about what my potential partner wants? What about considering how I could work on myself, find my own peace?
Once upon a time, a reporter for a major magazine declared, in all seriousness, that women should just get married already - even if it means settling...
Jenny Sanford's book is called Staying True written because her husband wasn't true blue. Of all her revelations, one sticks out in my mind.
While marital and couples therapists tell us how to save our marriages, sociology, anthropology, and human behavioral ecology suggest that it isn't so much married couples as Marriage itself that's in crisis.
Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, impeccably researched tome, is mandatory reading for girls who've not yet grasped the "unavailable parent" part of their inability to let someone love them.
A couple of years ago, I wrote a magazine article called "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough." In it, I confessed that, having found...
Ms. Gottlieb argues that we're here to procreate -- in an unhappy union with a mismatched partner, if need be; below, Lesley M. M. Blume begs to differ.
