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It's Time For Mad Men (And Women) to Stop Scorning the Stay-at-Home Mom

It’s been a year since "Mad Men" ended and I’m still thinking about poor Betty Draper – the ultimate cautionary tale for stay-at-home moms.

Don’t Let Your Family’s Healthy Eating Take a Vacation This Summer

With summer vacation comes more ice cream, fried food, and soft drinks. Here are some helpful tips to keep your family eating healthily all summer long.

When You Miss the Signs of Your Kid's Anxiety

I missed the significance of the early signs, unaware that my daughter's sensitivity and shyness foreshadowed a severe anxiety disorder.

Using a Healthy Lifestyle to Treat Kids with ADHD

A Canadian study found that after a 10-week physical training program, children with ADHD improved their muscular capacity and motor skills.

Why Do Mosquito Bites Itch?

A clear and concise answer to the question: why do mosquito bites itch? Now we just need to figure out why we even need to have mosquitoes at all.

Girls Who Experience Puberty Earlier at Higher Risk for Depression

What we found was the girls who had earlier breast development had a higher risk of depressive symptoms, or more depressive symptoms.

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Lessons Learned from a Tree House

When a treehouse building project becomes an opportunity for children to learn self-efficacy, resilience, and perseverance, everybody wins.

The Last Times

We never know which moments in our kids' lives are "lasts." From nights in cribs, to nursing sessions, maybe we wouldn't choose to know even if we could.

Please Stop Micromanaging the Grandparents

These are the memories of my grandma that I hold dear. The baking, the crosswords, the togetherness.

For Many Families, Summer is a Difficult Financial Hardship

Summer is the moment that really epitomizes the child care crisis.

How to Buy a Family Car on Craigslist

With a little legwork, Craigslist can be a great place to find your family car.

20 Ways College Is Different Since 1996

I graduated from college 20 years ago; so before I send them o? into this oh so scary world of iPhones, electric cars, and Siri, there are a few things today's graduates need to know. And a host of...

You'll Marry the Wrong Person

IT’S one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same: We marry the wrong person. Partly, it’s because we have a bewilderi...

June 2016 Parenting Horoscopes

Enjoy this refreshing and effervescent mixed cocktail of helpfulness, humor, and astrology-lite. May your children be tolerable and your stars aligned.

Aquarius June 2016 Horoscope

Aquarius (January 20 - February 19): This is the dawning of the age, Aquarius. Right now. Did you set your alarm? Did you wake up? Good. Look around. Everything you ever wanted is right here. It’s...

Capricorn June 2016 Horoscope

Capricorn (December 21 - January 20): If the zodiac was PBS for Kids, you’d be Bob the Builder. Building things from the ground up is second nature for you. Restore, renew, remodel. You can do all...

Pisces June 2016 Horoscope

Pisces (February 19 - March 20): Your intuition is razor sharp. Your ability to sense — and adapt to — a changing environment is part survival skill, part goddess-given gift. Of course you’re happ...

Sagittarius June 2016 Horoscope

Sagittarius (November 21 - December 21): You know what you’re good at? Choosing friends. You have the nicest friends. Funny, smart, skillful, honest. Your friends are good people and they love to ...

Scorpio June 2016 Horoscope

Scorpio (October 22 - November 21): Why you gotta smell so good and look so fine all the time, Scorpio? Those bright eyes, that air of mystery, the attention to detail. If the zodiac was a bar, yo...

Libra June 2016 Horoscope

Libra (September 22 - October 22): If the zodiac was The Love Boat, you’d be the cruise director, Julie McCoy. You know what people need, when they need it, and how to help them get it. You’re exc...

Cancer June 2016 Horoscope

Cancer (June 20 - July 22): You love home so much you’d think Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros wrote their biggest hit about this astrological sign. Of course, the point of that song is that...

Leo June 2016 Horoscope

Leo (July 22 - August 22): If a combination craft store / library / sex toy shop had any market viability, you could thrive in that business. Art, ideas, performance, romance — these are a few of ...

Virgo June 2016 Horoscope

Virgo (August 22 - September 22): Virgo, if the zodiac was a cartoon, you’d be Curious George. You’re interested in everything, and you’ll wander off following the things you want to understand, an...