Though we were both raised Catholic, my husband and I made a conscious decision to eschew religion when raising our son. At the risk of facing the ire of in-laws, we decided not to christen him or to subject him to regular mass or...

To most parents Toddlers & Tiaras is so offensive that we can hardly watch it, let alone relate to it. Crazed, crown-obsessed parents dressing up their children like "living dolls" complete with hairpieces, false eyelashes, heavy makeup, spray tanner and hyper-sexualized outfits...

To many, it may feel like the awareness and understanding of postpartum depression (PPD) -- once a taboo subject -- has increased in recent years. Yet, too much about it is still not discussed, and certainly not candidly.

Maybe I'm generalizing, but the...

Couples with young children frequently walk into my office a few years into parenting admitting that they don't have sex often enough. They reluctantly agree that they would like to have sex back in their relationship "if only they had more time." So often, parents of young children cannot seem...

It's a funny thing. As I get older my bucket list of things I still want to try seems to be shifting to the eccentric. I guess that's par for the course once you've lived seven decades and had the wonderful opportunity to try...

I'm not an expert. I'm just a separated woman trying to shop for her toddler...and I've got to ask this question. What the hell are we teaching our kids?

Really.

This is not a post about gender roles. This is not a...

Today I have a special treat -- I am going to share the secret of a good marriage. "HAHAHA," you say? Well, okay, I can understand that. Considering I am on my second marriage, and that marriage can be rather tumultuous (to say the least), I get why you might...

"I got spanked as a kid and I turned out okay."

I often hear this when talking about discipline methods for children. The key word in this sentence is "okay." What is our definition of this term, and is "okay" really what we want...

So, it's less than three weeks before Christmas. Friday night. Friends are winding down from their work week, decorating the tree with the kids, and maybe getting ready for a Christmas party.

I just learned of my husband's affair.

His birthday was just yesterday....

Lately I've been struggling with writing about my boys. When I first started blogging they were young, a toddler and baby. The stories I told may have been about them but they also were mine. When they didn't sleep through the night,...

About three months after the birth of our first baby, Madeline, the reality of life as a mom really hit me. I was part frantic and part overwhelmed. I had a very rewarding career, and was anxious to return to it while...

Yesterday I cut the "wrong end of the freezie," which started the 20-minute explosion of my three-year-old. The screen door was open, and I'm sure our neighbours had one hand on the phone to call the police to report a child stabbing. One thing my little three-year-old can do amazingly...

Most parents worry about their child's nutritional intake at one point or another, especially when they are dealing with a picky eater. I see this almost daily in my practice -- the conundrum of picky eating. Know that you are not alone...

The New Year is here and this is the time that many of us decide to make positive changes in our lives. No matter what shade of green you may be, the following list will hopefully give you some inspiration on how to make some eco-friendly changes for...

Once upon a time, I met someone.

He was very impressive, very handsome, and very grown up. He had a collection of letters after his last name that I couldn't keep up with. I immediately felt an urge to stir up his life.

I fell deeply in love, but I...

As parents, it's the conundrum of our generation. Technology: the double-edged sword. It's the future, and our kids need to be fluent in its dialect as early as possible. Yet, on the flip side, how much exposure to gadgetry is acceptable?

Like...

In the fresh bloom of the pre-school years, I agreed to become a member of the Board. The school was everything early education should be: they played music, hatched butterflies, went on small expeditions, little hands in little hands, a long caterpillar of...

Look, I am all about lying to my kid.

From the small lies ("five more minutes, I'm counting.") to the bigger ones (ask my kid what a giraffe says and she earnestly replies, "Hello, I'm a giraffe!"), one of the overlooked joys...

"Shelby wants to walk to school on her own," a client said to me recently, twisting the scarf she wore until I feared she might choke herself. "I don't know what to do -- tell me what I should do."

Often, the choice of whether or not to allow a...

Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel was published in 1953, on the heels of the conclusion of the Korean War and the death of Stalin. It was in these stumbling, toddler steps of the cold war that Casino Royale and its titular...