I know that my husband and I managed to escape the statistics - our marriage should never have worked. When we met, he was just out of a bad marriage, we were both on active duty, and he had two minor children... More >>

My husband and I have a fabulous marriage and four good sons--our youngest is 19. When he was home this summer... More >>

I work in a medical office and for the past several months we have been made to wear terribly ugly polyester royal blue shirts. More >>

Sometimes when you're trying to be a good parent, you actually end up doing things that hurt your kids. Here are 7 parenting mistakes you may be making... More >>

Several days a week, my two-year-old daughter and I go to the gym together while my older kids are at school. They have a childcare room where you can leave the kids while you run on the treadmill or take a spinning class... More >>

A recent tragedy has struck my family at our core, and if I may, please allow me to teach your listeners something I have learned. More >>

...My childhood was miserable because my parents married and divorced numerous times, shacked up, married people with kids, made new kids, etc... More >>

...So I love you at a distance. I stay aloof and disengaged. I refuse to give you much of my time, because it won't hurt as much when you tell me you're going to leave me. I know it's coming. It always does... More >>

What if the common restaurant kid's menu was never invented? What if parents ordered right off the adult menu, asking for a side plate to share 'grown-up foods' with their kids from the moment they were learning to chew? What would happen... More >>

...In between applying for new jobs, my wife started spending more time at the daycare when she went to get our son. She started to notice the cold, uncaring, unloving institutional side of daycare... More >>