The inevitable news that royal wedding bells will be ringing soon in England – in case you’ve been on a yoga retreat in Mexico, 28 year olds Prince William and Kate Middleton are engaged -- means many things to many people. more

Twenty years ago, a businessman in Washington, DC started an annual tradition called Fight Night. more

The website The Frisky recently published the so-called Girlfriends Code. Most of The Code had to do with grooming, partying and dating. Some of the stuff was stupid. more

All last week I was afraid of Halloween. Not afraid of razors in apples or kids getting kidnapped by masked strangers. I was afraid of…THE PARENTS. more

Katy Perry’s summer smash hit, California Gurls trumpets bikinis, stilettos, sex on the beach and melting your “popsicle.” more

I howled (not in a good way) over The Rules by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider. I was in the minority – the 1995 book sold over two million copies and was translated into 26 languages. more

You’re Grounded Forever, But First…Let’s Go Shopping. Do you understand the gist of this book simply by reading the title? I assumed I did. more

My kids play an enthralling game called Quick Pick. It goes like this: take two awful, completely exclusionary choices, and in three seconds pick one. The spark lies in instantaneous evaluation of two nasty and permanent life lines. more

It’s among the worst things that can happen to a family: serious injury or death of a child. No good parent WANTS a child to get hurt. Almost everyone I know considers children’s safety one of the foremost obligations of parenthood. more

This past week I came across the following snippets about gender equity. One appeared in the September 14, 2010 edition of the Washington Post. The other ran in The New York Times on July 9, 1917. Guess which was which. more