What do you get when you mix a 5-year-old princess, a 4-year-old superhero, an 18-month-old tomboy, and a husband with too many hobbies? A house full of shoes. If this sounds like a bad joke, it's not [more]

 We're sure you make a big deal about the 4th of July. At least in the barbecue department. (Sales of barbeque sauce surge all over the country the week before the holiday.) But even before that gril [more]

As a student, my grades were mostly above average, so why do I feel as though I'm repeating high school sometimes? It's that blasted epidemic - no not the swine flu. The one that seems to run rampant [more]

There are no less than a hundred thousand articles that advise soon to be mommies on how to transition work and prepare your employer for your maternity leave. And with the Pregnancy Discrimination Ac [more]

Music has the power to excite, inspire and move children. Planting seeds early is the key to a life-long love of music, which has been shown to help children learn better, have higher self-esteem and [more]

If you're the mother of one or more small children, chances are you've experienced these parenting "joys." 1. The battle to get your children - and/or yourself - dressed, fed, out the door on time. Ju [more]

When I was in the trenches with three children ages 4, 2 and a newborn, I felt like I was fighting a daily battle just to stay awake and alert. Adding to that fact, I also had to keep three young chil [more]

We are raising a generation of young people who are almost completely financially illiterate. Youngsters have no real concept of where money comes from and many college-age children can't even balance [more]

All pregnant women spend nine months hoping and praying that their children will be born healthy and normal. Ten fingers and ten toes is the standard baby wish, and anything beyond that is a blessing. [more]

As part of our series on Mommy Medicine, we asked Dr. Toni Galardi, a licensed psychotherapist, to give us more insight and a professional opinion as to why so many mothers today seem to be embracing [more]

Dads. They're really great, aren't they? And they don't receive an instruction book when it comes to parenting either, so there's a lot to learn when a man becomes a father. As a mom, I have to say th [more]

When Beccah Beushausen blogged about her pregnancy and her fetus who was terminally ill, she was inundated with support from the blogging community. Turns out, Beccah was not pregnant and had created [more]

While moms everywhere seem to be toasting as their tots run about, for some mothers the stress of the day-to-day duties can result in problem drinking. Here are the stories of two of them. Miss Mouthy [more]

Dads can be tough customers to shop for. They're rarely thrilled about clothes, they don't often squeal over flowers, and they have enough ties to pave a silk road to China.But have no fear! We've got [more]

Shortly after I put my son to bed, I did what I always do after my husband goes outside to get the trash bucket and I'm blissfully alone in the house. I dug out the chocolate brownie ice cream from t [more]

I heard about a new trend sweeping parts of the country on the television show The Doctors called Mommy and Me Happy Hour. You heard me, Mommy and Me Happy Hour! Here's the sitch. A group of mothers [more]

No woman ever wants to be the damsel in distress. And while it would be really useful to be able to predict a hard drive crash or natural disaster hitting your hometown, alas we are powerless when it [more]

About six months ago Christine Trice had one of "those" days and quickly set up a Facebook group "OMG! I So Need a Glass of Wine or I'm Gonna Sell My Kids." Apparently women everywhere could relate, [more]

When I was single, people were always asking me, "When are you going to get married?" When I actually did get married, people started asking me, "When are you going to have a baby?" When I gave birth [more]

Last week, my husband's grandmother died, and our family traveled to Minnesota for the funeral. This was our children's first real experience with death and funerals, and at the ages of 7, 10 and 11, [more]

I laughed when I saw a friend join the Facebook group "OMG I so need a glass of wine or I'm gonna sell my kids," and I kept chuckling as most every friend of mine who has children followed suit and jo [more]

When ya gotta go, you gotta go, and to be perfectly blunt here, we're not men who can just whip it out and point toward a tree, right? Well, exciting news for women who sit while peeing (and yes, I'm [more]

Janita Pavelka, a 45-year-old mom from Oxford, Neb., had all four of her children at home and would do it again "in a heartbeat." "It was a wonderful experience; calm, peaceful, bonding for my husband [more]

What began as subtle rumblings a few weeks ago have graduated to full-blown complainings: The kids are coming home! The kids are coming home! Ten weeks with our kids at home. What are we going to do w [more]

Father's Day is coming up, and we want to hear about the great fathers in your life - from the man who raised you to your own husband helping raise your children. What do they do that makes them speci [more]