I am a 42-year-old daytime student at a smallish University in Southern California. Every semester on the first day of class, the students don't know what to make of me and whisper behind my back and occasionally, snicker rudely. More >>

Grandpa only gets 30 minutes for lunch, so after my grandson has lunch with Mommy (my daughter), he and I take a ride to where Grandpa works and he shares a little of Grandpa's lunch. More >>

My mom believes in the 'attracting bees with honey than vinegar' approach. She would quote this constantly as I was growing up, and even as an adult, but... More >>

The price my kids pay for me to pack their school lunches is to simply put their lunch boxes in some visible place where I can find them. However, for some reason, my 6 and 8-year-olds remember this routine, but my 10-year-old does not... More >>

I recently went to go see a movie (something I very rarely do), and I didn't bring my cell phone in with me. I then went to lunch, and again, left my phone in the car. For some reason, this freaked people out. More >>

How many movies have you seen where a man sees a woman across a room filled with people dancing and he thinks, 'That's it, I'm in love.' More >>

It's rare to find a parent who actually tells his or her child, 'Go ahead, honey, and have sex! You have my blessing!,' but by trivializing sex and ignoring messages that go against our moral code, we may as well be telling our kids to do just that... More >>

...I met my husband when I was 17 and married him when I was 22. I did not know it then but I needed to escape my parents and he offered me the chance to pretend to be a grown-up. He, too, was stuck with parents who were not the warmest. More >>

...It was a little hard to give up the dramatic high school exciting kind of love for the real kind of lasting marital love. More >>

I called you recently because my family complained that I preferred my in-laws over them, and that my young son had a better relationship with his paternal grandparents. More >>