From Twilight to Tolstoy, I used to read pretty much anything. Now I couldn't finish an article, let alone a novel.

They may play well in some arenas, but when it comes to protecting kids from sexual abuse, they can backfire — badly. As an ...

Before I became a parent, I watched friends, newborns in their arms, skip-walk around the room until their babies fell asleep. Others sat on exercise balls, rocking and bouncing to ease out one ...

Can you tell me how to get to bed?

I wasn’t going to let another relationship head off my dreams of starting a family. Even if it was a really, really good one.

Before Akira arrived, like any pregnant woman having their first child, I had so many preconceived ideas about what motherhood would be like and what my child would be like. I would be a mother ...

Whatever parenting Kool-Aid we’re drinking is laced with our own self-destruction.

Five heavily documented teenagers describe mild embarrassment, a healthy fear of social media, and — get this — empathy for their parents. But what about their children, the kids they ...

“Make sure you mix everything up good and scrape the bowl” was a common refrain I heard sitting at my grandmother’s kitchen table helping prepare meals. I’d heard it countless times, along ...

I do not know to whom my daughter, Sage*, gave the gift of her first laugh. This certainly isn't because she didn’t laugh as a baby — her big brother could get her giggling so hard that she ...

A couple of months after my second miscarriage, I bought a bulk bag of 50 pregnancy tests. I would take one early in the morning, sometimes more than a week before I expected my period, and ...