I've learned to pick my battles and focus on what's really important. I choose cuddling and playtime over finishing the laundry piled sky-high in the basket.

Dear Susan, My brothers and their families are coming to stay with us this summer for two weeks. Between them, they have five children. As an only ...

If the kids can unplug, why can't we? Here are some tried and tested tips from recovering camp moms. You will get through it.

Students take all kinds of things to college with them, but perhaps the most useful item -- and potentially the most financially dangerous -- could be a credit card.

I found myself wondering about the "best age" for a child to lose a parent. Does such a thing exist?

Here are six practical suggestions to help smooth the transition to shared custody for you and your child.

Our kids are suffering from an orgy of bad parenting. Yes, there are real dangers to kids, but the main harm they face is imposed by their own parents.

As every parent knows, going out -- like on a real grownup date -- gets a lot more expensive when you have little kids in the house. On top of the exo...

We dance in some ways every day: We parent.

There is no such thing as allowing your kid to play with your phone "just once."

When my 4-year-old brought home a failed hearing test from school, my immediate reaction was panic.

As my babies have grown, I have grown increasingly sentimental for those baby days when they needed me so urgently; when I was the answer to their questions, their longings, their needs.

With today's gas prices, you may be looking for ways to save a little money on your family voyage. Packing homemade items saves money and makes for happy (and less sugar-enthused!) travelers.

There are evil people in this world. The kind of people that will dupe a little boy and take his life. You better bet that I'm going to do everything in my power to shield my children from it.

It's 6:00 a.m. and a tiny finger is poking you in the face. "Daddy, I'm hungry." You turn to your spouse. With a beleaguered moan, she reminds you that it's your day to get up with the kid.

There are many aspects of French culture that I love. But there is much the French could learn from us, particularly the child rearing values that tend to be prioritized in North America: empathy, creativity, and individual motivation (that "can-do" attitude).

Melanie's husband died suddenly at 35, leaving her to care for their three sons, ages 8, 4, and 10 months. She had no family nearby. Turns out, she had something just as valuable: A network of friends.

How could we learn anything other than that which we grew up immersed in, and usually, are genetically predisposed to as well? The only way we could be any different or more imaginative, is if we put conscious thought and effort into it. Are you doing that?

I reached out to my network of savvy mom friends for a mini focus group and curated this list of top 10 must-haves for camp this summer.

What could possibly be the harm in pulling someone aside and saying, "You know, this is really none of my business. But I think what you're doing is amazing"?