When I’m away from home I miss my son, my husband and our canine twins like a sail misses the wind. I look forward to our reunion, to hugs and kisses and to catching up on all the details left absent from our intermittent phone calls. But I have a secret.

According to new research, a healthy sex life is possible well into our 80s.
The findings said nothing about a healthy sex life while in our parenting years. I suppose researchers thought it’d be senseless to study between-the-sheet antics of 30 and 40 years olds. After all, many of us have small children at home and [...]

My four-year-old has an advanced sense of diversionary tactics. In fact his ability to divert attention and make me laugh is so advanced, so perfect, that any 13-year-old would trade his Wii for my son’s talent to drop his mother’s jaw to the floor and clutch my mid section in an attempt not to laugh [...]

“I told my son, ‘You cannot continue to run from bullies. You have to stand up for yourself if you want them to leave you alone,’” Tianna Onyebuagu testified during her son, Kenneth London’s murder trial in Tennessee.

There’s been an endemic growth of bullying in our society that has left parents and educators at a loss on how to effectively deal with the onslaught.

Are your relationships with your parents emotionally equal?

I’ve always had a different type of relationship with my mother than my father. It’s not disproportionate in how much I love and respect them, but the level of emotional intimacy is very different.