| 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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Is Blue The New Black?
Dear Maureen Dowd: Thank you so for your recent column, Blue is the New Black. Thanks for enlightening me about how women today are SO unhappy because of all the choices heaped upon us since the feminist revolution began in 1972. more
Cancelling “Composite Man.”
I was recently the keynote speaker for a group of “young presidents,” a group of 80 men (and one woman) who’d become presidents of significantly-sized companies by the time they were 40. An impressive, articulate, boisterous group. more
Back to School Basketcase.
As much as I grow wistful as summer ends, like most moms, I secretly look forward to a return to the peaceful structure of the school year. more
Fat Chance.
Mine was a childhood in motion-- hard to replicate or even imagine today,
just a generation later. Growing up in the heart of Washington, DC, every
day I: walked to and from school twice, played kickball at recess, took
afterschool gymnastics or ballet classes, rode my bike, ran with the
neighbors' dogs for two miles in the local park, played Kick-the-Can and
Hide-and-Seek with the neighborhood crew. more
Tech-Savvy Kids Solutions.
How many Facebook “friends” does your child have? Has your kid ever posted a YouTube video? Texted a naked picture of themselves to friends’ phones? How much do we really know about our kids and technology today? more
G.I. Jane.
When I was a kid growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, playing with my Barbies, we girls got asked all the time “Are you going to marry Billy or Tommy?” and “How many kids do you want to have?” more
Paula and Pay Equity.
I never imagined cute, ditzy Paula Abdul as a feminist. Shame on me for assuming that a Los Angeles Lakers cheerleader and music video diva couldn’t also be strong, smart and gutsy. more
Do Women Love Infidelity?
Here’s a timeless subject that drives most women nuts: Why do men leave women they once adored? Statistics suggest at least one in three married men cheat. That’s a lot. more
Business Trip Battles
Okay, maybe I wasn’t at my most brilliant when planning how to combine work and motherhood when I was first pregnant, but here’s one biggie I totally missed: how vexing business travel can be when you have a baby, a job, and a husband who also travels for his job. more
Screw You, Jack Welch.
Jack Welch was never my business idol, anyway. A little too militaristic, kinda like a junta leader minus the camouflage. Overly simplistic in his view of business. Arrogant in that “I’m a smart white man and I rule the world” kinda way. more
