Columns & Collected Essays

I am not, by nature, an organized person, but I had the first day of 2010 all planned out. The idea was to ditch my children and my...

“Zoe, you are so smart,” I told my four-year old daughter the other day as she spelled out the word pony. She looked up at me and smiled....

If there were such a manual as “Competitive Parenting for Beginners,” my husband Brett and I would be the authors of chapter 6, “Arts and...

The other day, I went grocery shopping. I don’t know how you shop, but I have a feeling it’s not all that different from how I do it. ...

My four-year-old daughter, Zoe, came home from preschool the other day with a great idea. One of her little friends had brought an...

Last spring, I wrote an article about having a summer birthday party for my daughter Zoe with several members of her preschool class. I...