| Leslie Morgan Steiner is the editor of the best-selling anthology Mommy Wars and the brand new memoir Crazy Love. Steiner is a frequent guest on the Today Show, MSNBC, and regularly contributes to The New York Times, Newsweek and Vanity Fair. She lives with her husband and 3 kids in Washington, DC. In this column, she will offer her Two Cents on issues relating to modern motherhood. | ![]() |
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800 Years To Educate A Queen.
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
Women vs. Women: The Real Fight.
Twenty years ago, a businessman in Washington, DC started an annual tradition called Fight Night. more
Working Girl Code.
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
Halloween Horrors: The Parents.
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
California Gurls: The Wave of the Future.
Katy Perry’s summer smash hit, California Gurls trumpets bikinis, stilettos, sex on the beach and melting your “popsicle.” more
Mothers and Daughters.
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
Quick Pick: Would You Rather Spend Your Life Homeless with Your Soulmate, or Rich Married to a Cheating Scoundrel?
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
Back to School Safety
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
Suffrage Continued.
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




