All too often, I find myself in situations that could be vastly improved by the presence and guidance of Tim Gunn.  He’d talk me out of my ponytail and baggy zip-up sweatshirt fashion rut. In [more]

I’ve been a mother for almost five years now, and I’ve learned that the older my daughter gets, the less I feel I know about child-rearing with absolute certainty. As I prepared for motherhood, I [more]

It’s late afternoon on a rainy Friday in L.A., and Marissa Jaret Winokur is carrying her baby son, Zev, into a playdate at a friend’s house. She's looking forward to it for two reasons: She can [more]

So your four-year-old asks you “what’s a vagina,” your middle-schooler’s new favorite comeback is “suck it,” or your teenager is about to go to the prom. No matter what age your kids [more]

As any parent knows who has ventured with the kids into the neighborhood toy store, Target, or Toys “R” Us, toys in all their forms hold a particular fascination that can never quite be [more]

Here are a few signs that you’re ready to enlist the help of a trusted babysitter and do something on your own: 1. When you run out of milk, you consider adding breast milk to your coffee. It’s [more]

There's an 8-year-old girl in Brazil who does a mean Lady Gaga impression. And it freaks me out. You’ll probably think I’m overreacting, but this video of Laura Montana, a young contestant on a [more]

The day after he won the election, Barack Obama, who probably had more than a few phone calls to make, found time to drop off his kids at school that morning. It was a powerful message telegraphed to [more]

As an expectant mother, two times over, I practiced prenatal yoga. Religiously, I waddled my way to the yoga studio and bent myself into a pretzel in hopes that my efforts would prepare my body for [more]

It’s almost midnight as I sit in my home office to write this essay. My husband and children are asleep. The dog and cat are dozing. I’m awake and energized and working through my to-do list. (On [more]