| 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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The Danger of Playing Favorites With Your Kids.
During my childhood, it was no biggie that my youngest sister – the baby – was clearly the “favorite,” the kid everyone in the family liked most. This never bothered me; I liked her best too. more
Kids and Camp: Letting Go.
“Sometimes, you need to let your kids go – so that they can come home.” more
Welcome the New Mom: Dad.
In the run-up to Father’s Day, American media gushed about fatherhood like never before: more
Imperfect Moms Make Better Moms.
I was raised by a perfect mom. She was smart; graduating from Radcliffe and Columbia Teacher’s College when most women were told education was for men. She believed in volunteering her talents: as president of my school’s PTA, founder of our beloved afterschool sports program, and co-founder of a local daycare center for low income moms. more
What's Good for Nannies is Good for Moms.
Myths of Modern Motherhood.
I recently stumbled upon this gem in an old issue of Parenting: Six Biggest Parenting Myths: 1. Bribery is Bad.
2. Children Should Never See Their Parents Argue.
3. Always Put Your Kids’ Needs Ahead of Your Own. more
Smarty Pants.
DC is buzzing about Elena Kagan, President Obama’s latest Supreme Court nominee, whose confirmation hearings begin in June. Senators, opinionistas and media makers have all weighed in on whether Kagan, our country’s solicitor general and former dean of Harvard Law School, will make a worthy Supreme Court justice when she’s never actually been a judge. more
Women on Top: The Sweet Sixteen.
My sophomore year in college, flush with feminism, I negotiated my first pay raise. My employer – a dorm mom with a new baby – was as shocked as I was when, after three hours caring for her baby, I blurted out that I expected to be paid $8 instead of the $6.50 per hour she handed me. more
Young, White, Gorgeous, and Dead.
Parents, teachers and kids across Washington reacted with shock to Monday’s Washington Post front page headline that a handsome University of Virginia senior from an elite local all-boys prep school had been charged in killing another UVA senior and former girlfriend. more
The Sophistication and Stupidity of Sexting.
On a leafy green street in suburban Bethesda, Maryland, there’s a friendly redbrick building. My son’s AAU basketball team held practice there two nights a week for a year, so I knew Thomas W. Pyle Middle School before I read about it in the Washington Post recently. more
