For mother-blaming and self-blaming to ever stop, mothers are going to have to be seen -- and see themselves -- as individuals rather than symbols or caricatures.
Kristin Maschka | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
The appearance of the Mother piece of pie presents us with a psychological pie dilemma we have to solve to find ourselves again: How do I integrate this huge new piece of who I am into my Identity Pie without making a big old mess?
Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Working moms, once unheard of, have become a cultural norm. Yet we're still mostly trying to find a balance in our home lives when it comes to making care arrangements.
Perry Yeatman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
Want to help your children succeed in the decades ahead? You don't need money. More than anything, building a global mindset is the key to their success. And it's easier (and cheaper) to do than you think!
Laura Pappano | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
As working moms playing gold-medal-worthy competitive beach volleyball in bitsy bikinis, Treanor-May and Walsh may just be giving the rest of us a little more room to move.
Heather Cabot | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
Through a series of new stage productions in New York and elsewhere, mom bloggers and tweeters will step into the spotlight and tell motherhood like it is to a live audience.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
Men and women do share more household responsibilities now more than ever, but it's still the women who carry the heaviest load of caretaking, basically acting as CEO of a family.
Sherry Moss | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
Are less than 13 minutes of my daughter's glory worth enduring 10 hours of sweat, questionable concession stand food, and whining from the sometimes tag-a-long younger brother?
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
SuperMoms dressed in red capes are distributing powerful truth flyers to passersby to educate them about what health care reform will really do and how it will help.
Jeana Lee Tahnk | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
It's an age-old question that moms ask themselves on a daily basis -- am I doing this right? Motherhood to most is a type of training-in-progress, we learn as we go along.
Sherry Moss | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
Flexible work hours allow employers to tap into the hidden workforce of women who want to find the balance between work life and home life.
Romi Lassally | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
Do you sympathize with a mother who became violent in defense of her son? Could you imagine yourself going this far?
Amy Nebens and Jara Negrin | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
The thank-yous we constantly remind our kids to say are mostly an instinctual need to instill manners, but the reality is that the appreciation we receive does have a positive effect.
treehugger.com | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
A comparison of medical records from 81,186 single child births to air pollution levels in the area revealed that high pollution exposure raised the r...
Vicki Iovine | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living
A "missing" man who happens to be Governor of South Carolina gets caught with his pants down in Argentina while his wife's only comment is something t...
Lenore Skenazy | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York
When I wrote a little column about letting my fourth-grader ride the subway solo from Bloomingdale's to 34th Street and from there, to take a bus by himself, home, it hit the proverbial "nerve."
Karen Leland | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living
Now that the kids are out of school and summer is just peaking around the corner, busy moms need to find a way to manage themselves and their brood. ...
Amy Nebens and Jara Negrin | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living
The revved up sex drive that oft occurs during national disasters, is not typical of this recession. Longer work hours, stress and exhaustion have created barriers between women and men, and reduced our libidos.
Sarah Janssen | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
While the industry has characterized the campaign to eliminate BPA as "lies," they have resorted to the failed tactics of the tobacco industry by putting profits before protecting the public's health.
Jamie Woolf | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
Lian has interviewed everybody from Bill Clinton to Nora Roberts to Maya Angelou and has used the airwaves to give voice to the issues important to mothers everywhere.
Nicki Richesin | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
This is what I want to remember this Mother's Day: my five-year-old daughter's joyful face: hazel eyes glowing, sloppy hair hanging in her sweet little face and her magical laugh tinkling in the air.
Ellen Susman | Posted 06.08.2009 | Style
For one afternoon in May, hundreds of women and their children have an afternoon where the troubles they encounter on a daily basis just don't matter. Now that's cause for celebration!
Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
My mother was my best friend and we could spend hours together without ever getting bored or tired of each other. In fact, there was no one I wanted to spend time with more.
Noah St. John | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
I believe that most moms are actually not multi-tasking, but juggle-tasking. This term describes when someone is juggling multiple tasks, projects, and even jobs.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
Motherhood is the only role I've ever had where I simultaneously feel I am doing pretty well at it and am sure that I know nothing. You'd think that a...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living