0 TO 3 MONTHS I didn’t think it would be like this. My twins — a precious boy and girl — are six weeks old and I’m teetering on the edge of sanity.

I come from a long line of worriers. My grandmother Klari had an exceptional gift for seeing disaster in everything. She wasn’t entirely crazy given her sister’s family were rounded up by the Nazi’s and murdered in Auschwitz. But even decades later, living a very safe life in Montreal, she worried incessantly. My grandma monitored […]

My older son, Jake, turned 21 yesterday. When Jake was born, John’s boss gave us a bottle of vintage port to save for this day. Jake is studying far away, so we will have to wait until he is back home to uncork this beauty that has been gathering dust in our back basement for […]

11 things to (really) expect when you’re expecting…

I thought I knew a thing or two about pregnancy. Girlfriends had told me about the nausea, the surreal flutters of the baby’s first kicks, the wacky food cravings. But nothing had prepared me for the weird and wonderful experience of pregnancy once it happened to me. 

Let’s face it: Many of us pump up the volume when we discipline our kids. Here’s how to stop. Count to 10. It sounds silly, I know, but it works! Use the 10-words-or-less rule. If you give your kids a timeout, send them off with 10 words or less (for example, “Timeout for hitting your […]

When parenting duties were being divvied up, I somehow drew the short straw. My husband John comes from strict Baptist stock, the kind of people who don’t talk about sex because it may lead to dancing, or worse, cards.

Being a mom can suck from time to time–schlepping a noisy carload of kids to outer Suburbia for Little League; making eleventh-hour trips to the hardware store to pick up parts for the science project your kid forgot was due the next day; or, having to vacation at a theme park rather than on the […]

Here’s an interesting factoid. Stay-at-home dads are five times more likely to have an affair than other men. One hypothesis is, feeling emasculated by not being the primary breadwinner, they sleep around to prove they are still macho.

It is easy to think being the child of divorce is all bad. According to the research, kids from broken families are more likely to smoke, be on Ritalin, suffer from lower self esteem, drop out of school, suffer a stroke, and die earlier than kids from intact families.