When my kids face difficult challenges, I catch myself wondering if I've been good enough -- if, as a parent, I've given them the kind of guidance they need to navigate the ups and downs of their lives.
Heather Cabot | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living
I was the one who wasn't ready to let Paci go. Finally reaching the milestone felt really big. It was something so mundane and yet, it weighed on me.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
My child's increasing self-reliance has given me the time to reflect on my parents' lives. I've always been grateful to have arrived at midlife with two vital parents who live nearby.
Christen Clifford | Posted 03.02.2009 | Style
The R train wasn't the ideal place to be squeezing out human milk, but it's a part of breastfeeding: women should be able to nurse everywhere and pump everywhere too.
Barri Gordon Waltcher | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living
The type of volunteering that SAHM's tend to do -- tasks associated with PTAs, sports teams, etc -- is largely viewed as unskilled, with questionable economic value.
Pablo Ganguli | Posted 03.01.2009 | Style
I still do not know what possessing Indian nationality signifies. I have always felt so very un-Indian with only rare flashbacks of nostalgia for things from the sub-continent.
Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 02.27.2009 | Style
Like our First Lady, our new American Fashion Icon, we can embrace color, buy less expensive clothes, look fabulous and enjoy what we wear, even as we sacrifice!
Donna Fish | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
Console yourself that you're amongst the millions of other parents who can't get their kids to eat vegetables. I haven't heard of one case of scurvy reported lately, have you?
Jason Notte | Posted 02.22.2009 | Living
Obama and his mother benefited not only from their own unique gifts, but from the willingness of Dunham's parents to assist in the process.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 02.19.2009 | World
A native Kansan who learned several languages, including Russian, Urdu, Spanish, Javanese and Bahasa Indonesia, Barack Obama's mother existed outside of the box of traditionalism.
Mort Gerberg | Posted 02.09.2009 | Style
Kimberly Burger Capozzi | Posted 01.18.2009 | Entertainment
My favorite fairy tale before Twilight was the one where the 1970s girl grows up to have a stunning career and a family.
Mary Lou Song | Posted 12.15.2008 | Living
When I learned Barack Obama had won the election, I was at home trying to watch every moment while still caring for my mother.
Lucia Brawley | Posted 12.10.2008 | Living
I propose an internationally recognized Museum of Motherhood (M.O.M.), based in Washington, D.C.
Robert Drago | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
Obama's plan to expand after-school programs to cover one million additional children is clearly superior to McCain's proposal for no change in expenditures.
Michelle Madhok | Posted 10.19.2008 | Style
Mineral makeup line Alchemy of Colour has just released Power Pink Lipstick, a shade that's supposed to look like the one Sarah Palin wears.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
Mothers are in the mix. FINALLY. A major party nominee has broken the virtual "cone of silence" on the very real, shared motherhood issues that women...
Doug Bremner | Posted 07.30.2008 | Living
"What do I have a lawyer for if you can't help me?" Salim Hamdan asked his lawyers, rhetorically.
Lisa Witter | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Obama may have the clear advantage with the mother vote on the image, talk and policy fronts, but McCain has shown lately that he isn't willing to let the mom vote go without a fight.
Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 05.29.2008 | Living
A majority of women say they're worried about such fundamental economic issues as paying for health care, not having retirement security, and pay not keeping up with the cost of living.
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media
It's bad enough we have to deal with people asking my daughter where her "real mom" is. I don't need the mainstream media feeding the insinuation that non-biological families are second best.
New York Times | BENEDICT CAREY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
BY age 2 it was clear that the boy had a sensibility all his own, affectionate and distant at the same time, often more focused on patterns and object...
Times of London | Frank Furedi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Parenting gurus have always claimed to possess unique insights that gave them privileged access to the higher truth about childrearing. But recently t...
Cheryl Saban | Posted 03.13.2009 | Living