| 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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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
Grounded Technology.
I have a 13 year old son. His priorities in life are (in this order)
1. 24/7 Communication with Friends
2. Sports
3. M&Ms more
A Summertime Education.
Most of us have heard educators’ maxim that kids lose one to three months of academic learning during summer vacation. But in contrast to this “summer learning loss,” moms know another dirty little secret about summer: kids pick up a whole different education during summer more
Childcare for Dual-Career Couples.
My children are 13, 11 and 8. In other words, practically grown-ups. Finding daycare, nannies, and babysitters is a distant memory. Actually, more like a nightmare. Wait lists, reference checks, interviews, worries about missing pick-up or a nanny calling in sick on the day of an important business trip, these stresses all lodge blessedly in my parenting past. more
Through Your Babysitter's Eyes.
Have you ever looked at your life through your babysitter’s eyes? Bear with me, this could get painful. more
The Market That Loses Moms.
Mid-August compromises the dog days of summer for news headlines (witness the front page froth over the JetBlue flight attendant) which may be why the editors at the New York Times chose mid-August as the ideal time to publish David Leondhardt’s "Economic Scene: A Market Punishing to Mothers." more
Where's Mom's Summer Vacation?
Mid-August is when every mom I run into shakes her head and says sadly, “Wow, I can’t believe summer is going by so fast.” I smile. But I feel like muttering under my breath “Not fast enough.” more
