General Parenting

Last Tuesday, my eight-year-old was having a complete meltdown over her math homework. That’s when I discovered something amazing. “I HATE math!” my daughter Emma sobbed, throwing her pencil across the kitchen table. “It’s too hard and makes no sense!” Sound familiar? I was desperately trying to think of something – anything – to help […]

I used to dread beach days with my kids. Now I have a system that works. I’ll never forget the first time I took my three kids to the beach alone. My husband was working, and I thought, “How hard can it be? Sand, water, sunshine – they’ll entertain themselves, right?” Wrong. So very wrong.

When I was 23, my college friend told me I was “too young” to think about having babies. When I hit 30, my mother started dropping hints about my “biological clock.” At 33, strangers at the grocery store felt entitled to comment on my pregnancy timing. The pressure around finding the best age to have