If you were to read a book in your free time about parenting, you’d come across topics like nutrition, discipline, potty training and school bullies. And those are good things to know about. Important even.

But there are other issues to be addressed. I’m working on an outline for my own parenting book. The title is not yet set, but some ideas bandied about are, “Stop pulling your hair out, you’re leaving a mess on the floor,” “How to communicate to small people who pretend not to hear you”… Continue

With both of us working and having three children to maneuver through the world, our conversations have been reduced to twitter-like snippets before we start the bedtime routine. Not that my husband John and I have ever been ones to delve deeply into moody discourses on, well, anything. We are too different to do that. He's a Republican. I'm Independent. He's from the South. I'm more Southern than Northern now, but you can still here that flat "a" when I say, "Gap". My profession requires me to… Continue