*WARNING: Spoilers from previously-aired episodes of “Lost” ahead.* “Lost” has some serious issues. To be more precise, the hit ABC drama about plane crash survivors marooned on a mysteriously creepy island has some serious mommy and daddy issues. more

It’s hard enough trying to keep the embers of one’s sex life burning when you’re a married mother with young kiddos at home. In between taking care of the youngin’s, pursuing your career, keeping your home barely clean enough so it won’t be declared a Superfund site, society also expects you to maintain your “yumminess” and keep on top of your personal upkeep (shaving, plucking, waxing, hair coloring, exercising . . . the list goes on and on lest you be perceived as “letting yourself go”). more

It’s the presidential election season, which means it’s time for political pundits and media gurus to make assumptions about who they think voters are going to support based on which demographic characteristics they possess. Voters are divided into groups and television’s talking heads then use these artificial divides to make sweeping statements about what they believe the electorate – pesky, unpredictable beings that they are -- will do. more

It’s not just about football.That’s what I tell non-football fans when I urge them to watch NBC’s sophomore drama “Friday Night Lights.” Sure, it’s set in

Texas and centers on the people who are associated with a successful, hard-driving high school football team. There are many teenage boy cast members and there’s usually at least one football practice or game sequence in each episode. more

Scene 1: A mom decided to camp out in her hall closet in order to conduct a business call while her two, grade school-aged kids were running about the house, loudly shouting her name.

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*WARNING: Spoilers from the film “Juno” ahead.* First things first. The new indie flick “Juno” does not glamorize teen pregnancy. Sixteen-year-old Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) isn’t a shrinking violet or a wide-eyed doe who does not understand contraception. (She just doesn’t use it). Nor is she someone who sleeps around either. (She got pregnant during her one and only sexual encounter.) more

Clean slates. Ambitious (unachievable) lists about how one can better one’s life in the next 365 days. As the new year approaches, the media are filled with stories reflecting on the past 12 months. And there are lists of every type imaginable. Here at Mommy Track’d, it’s no different. I’ve come up with my own list of the top 10 things I’d like to see happen in American pop culture in 2008, at least when it comes to the portrayal of moms (and dads), their work and their lives: more

If you’re a mother AND a writer, does that necessarily mean that you’re a narcissistic and potentially emotionally neglectful mom? That’s a question that was plaguing me as I recently left the theater after watching the latest indie flick from filmmaker Noah Baumbach, “Margot at the Wedding,” starring Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black. more

While many dust off their DVD of the classic 1947 Christmas film, “Miracle on 34th Street” at this time of year, how many have actually taken the time to notice that Doris Walker, the divorced single mom played by Maureen O’Hara, was, in fact, a working mom who was well ahead of her time? more

If you’re a working woman and you have a husband, did you know you’re literally killing him with stress? Seriously. more