Pandemic parenting has been a challenge, no doubt. And for people who have young children, especially those who have been going to school online while they’re trying to work from home, my heart goes ...

Music is a time machine. It can immediately transport us back to a moment in our lives in a way that no other sensory experience has the power to do, evoking deep emotion in us as if no time has ...

Let's face it: We are products of our parents, the good and the bad. We learn how to parent based on the way we were parented. And, so, while we may strive in our careers and measure our success in ...

The first time a child comes home from college, you are looking for the changes. Does she look different? Is she acting differently? The changes may be subtle, but they are there. The narcissism that ...

It’s finally here. Today is the day. We have made lists, shopped, packed, filled out forms, and now we are going to make the drive to Pennsylvania to move my youngest daughter into her freshman dorm ...

I don't know about you, but sometimes I find the job of parenting to be quite overwhelming. Not necessarily in a vacuum, but combined with a job, housework, and all of the other things in life that ...

When my kids were young and had immediate needs all the time, I longed for “me time.” I simply wanted to take a bath, read for a few minutes or just sleep. As they got older, their needs changed. I ...

When I was growing up in the 1970s, I didn’t know many career women besides my mother. Women portrayed on television and in movies tended to embrace pre-feminism stereotypical tradition roles for ...

If you look at Twitter and Facebook, you see a lot of people including the word “grateful” in their posts. It has become almost as common as the smiley-faced emojis that grace many of our digital ...

When my mother was my age, I had just finished graduate school and was starting my career. I, on the other hand, have a daughter who is just finishing the sixth grade. And I am not alone. Many of my ...

Unless you’re living under a rock, you’re familiar with the hashtag that’s circulating on social media, #MeToo. Basically, in the wake of allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, women ...

You know who they are. They’re waiting in the wings for us to mess up. When we stumble as parents, and we all do, someone is always there to point it out. When our kids were young, the parenting ...