The Facebook IPO that will turn its founders into billionaires and its code-scribbling cubicle dwellers into millionaires is the latest envy of Silicon Valley. But there is another kind of Facebook Envy that's percolating among many of its half-billon members. It's the dark side effect ironically triggered by Facebook's sunny...

In Kathryn Stockett's best selling novel-turned-new movie The Help, where black maids are raising white women's children in Jackson, Miss., at the cusp of the Civil Rights movement, she confronts the uncomfortable, intimate, and often, ugly relationships between women and their "help."

In an age before soccer moms and...

Most celebrities would never 'fess up to nanny dependence. Angelina has managed to keep her multiple nannies -- a reported one for each of her six kids -- absent from virtually every paparazzi photo of the Jolie-Pitt tribe. Kelly Ripa doesn't publicly praise her hired help for giving her time...

Americans are enraptured with all the feathered-hat pomp, gilded-carriage circumstance and British-royal-wedding fever that's rippling across the Atlantic.

We adore an old-fashioned, common-girl-snags-handsome-prince love story. Hollywood couldn't have scripted a better ending to the "Waity Katie" fairytale.

While the media have been buzzing about who scored the coveted,...

The morning after my seven-year-old daughter's sleepover and a few hours before my nine-year-old son's play date, and just in the middle of quieting my daughter's kvetchting about her impending piano lesson, I happened upon "Why Chinese Mother's Are Superior," Amy Chua's controversial Wall Street Journal article that's...

"Think of all the money you would save if we were Christian," my daughter exclaimed as she fondled yet another ornament dangling from a tree at the mall.

"Santa brings presents so parents don't need to buy anything like you do for Hanukkah," she said.

My kids want to...

Last week, I had the privilege of watching ABC anchor Diane Sawyer moderate a conversation between Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The extraordinary coffee klatch was part of The Women's Conference, a mega-watt, multi-day convention hosted by Maria Shriver....

Whom do parents fear more -- "Stranger Danger" or a Facebook friend? According to a national survey commissioned by Care.com, bullying and cyberbullying have eclipsed kidnapping as parents' greatest fear. Nearly one in three parents of children ages 12-17 agree that bullying is a more serious concern than...

"I love your ponytail. It's so silky and lovely," my seven-year-old daughter Lexi cooed to her Malibu Barbie, in the voice of Malibu's brunette BFF Jasmine. "Thank you. Is it snack time yet?" Malibu responded.

Apparently, even Barbie dolls need to nosh.

But snack time is not just child's...

I don't envy men these days. For the first time in our nation's history, a uterus may be perceived as more valuable than a penis. Recent articles have painted a devastating picture of the current state of America's men, from their earning potential to their downright relevance.

The Great...

Moms are miserable. We are exhausted and stressed out because of our beloved offspring. Our marriages suffer because of those little people who we had the audacity to create - engineering their existence for our own narcissistic pleasure, believing that they would fulfill us.

Ironically, we are killing ourselves...

I am crushing on the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen. Now it's true I'm famous for having a thing for men in power, particularly charismatic leaders of the free world, think Bill Clinton mid-90s, pre-Monica. And who hasn't swooned over President Obama's smooth jump shot...

It all started with a bowl of spaghetti. The cold, congealed noodles had sat neglected in the back of the fridge for days. Susan, the mother of three, despised leftovers lurking behind the milk. She had repeatedly reminded her nanny, Florence, who had worked for the family for three years,...

I missed Sarah Palin. I'm glad she's back. Seeing her frosted, teased coif, (albeit less brassy and pouffy than before) makes me nostalgic for the election when we were all exploding with hope and optimism and Tina Fey's hilarious Saturday Night Live sketches.

Newsweek gave us a much needed...

D.C. has its glitter back. Among many things that have changed in America since W packed up his cowboy boots and returned to his home turf in Texas is that Washington, D.C. has reclaimed its status as the Hollywood of the Beltway -- a Hollywood in the age of reality...

Are mommy bloggers selfishly pimping out their children for their own creative fodder ... or, even worse, financial gain? Do our emotional, self-deprecating, angst-ridden, confessional posts that are meant to comfort the sorority of mothers in cyberspace ultimately hurt our own children -- if not now, sometime in the future?...

Maybe there's one piece of good news to come out of the recession - it's killed The Mommy Wars. With the unemployment rate hovering at nine and a half percent, having a job feels like a privilege not a choice. The irony is that while for years moms were "opting...