My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale New York society woman best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing....
In New York if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at...
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's...
The truth is I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then the...
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options....
Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes...
My personality when tasked with creating meals goes something like this: Is...
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning even...
There's already a marriage clock a career clock a biological clock....
I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber...
For me Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in...
I'm a parent especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had....
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is...
I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties...
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic money success...
I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's...
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement it comes from...
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
For decades parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that...