PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. – With the beaming smiles of newlyweds, Paul...
05/12/2013Happy Mother’s Day! We mothers have been trying to define ourselves...
05/12/2013KAMPALA, Uganda – More women are initiating divorces in Uganda, a...
05/05/2013There’s a house finch singing outside our window, sounding like the very...
05/05/2013Most kids can utter an expletive before they even know their ABCs –...
04/28/2013
NEW YORK – “Remember – you are your own...
04/28/2013REYKJAVIK, Iceland – You meet someone, there’s chemistry and...
04/21/2013Recently, I asked Col, Rose and their friend Kiva what children need...
04/21/2013
NEW YORK – Strands from baby’s first haircut. The first tooth. Tiny...
04/14/2013Today is the start of the 2013 Week of the Young Child. This is a national...
04/14/2013My children are cleaning up the daily trail of toys that expand from their...
04/07/2013
SITKA, Alaska – For girls, proms are all about the dresses. Kayla Wolfe...
04/07/2013Christians have ChristianMingle. Senior citizens have SeniorMatch. Now,...
03/31/2013
STARA ZAGORA, Bulgaria – Donka Hristova lets her mother pull her skintight...
03/31/2013
WASHINGTON – Michelle Obama is pushing back against the notion that...
03/24/2013WASHINGTON – Working mothers increasingly want full-time jobs, and tough...
03/22/2013After 10 days in Costa Rica, we’re back in the Northern Hemisphere, in...
03/17/2013CHICAGO – Keep computers in a common area so you can monitor what your...
03/17/2013I am not a prude. I also think Beyoncé is one of the most talented...
03/10/2013
FORT COLLINS (AP) – Tim Sagen and Ken Hoole woke up together May 8, 2012,...
03/10/2013Sometimes, raising children feels a little like how I imagine life was for...
03/03/2013
FOUNTAIN, Colo. – At first, Jeremy and Kathryn Mathis didn’t think much of...
03/01/2013
The conversation often starts with, “Where are your shoes?”
02/24/2013I’m home alone with Rose today, who spent yesterday puking in our salad...
02/17/2013
NEW YORK – The lone U.S. adoption agency accredited in Kyrgyzstan is...
02/17/2013
NEW YORK – Proposing marriage has become an industry of its own with...
02/10/2013“How are the children?” is the traditional greeting of the mighty Masai...
02/10/2013
NEW YORK – Nicole Buergers and Brenden Macaluso are both 32. They struck...
02/03/2013I was recently snuggled up on our couch with three Mama friends, one of...
02/03/2013NEW YORK – The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents fell by...
01/27/2013
CONROE, Texas – Nearly a year after their two children were found living...
01/25/2013
MOSCOW – Russia’s ombudsman for children’s rights sought on Thursday to...
01/20/2013Lately, Col’s been infected with a bout of what we call around here...
01/20/2013