Since last week’s tragedy in Newtown, it's been harder to let the kids out of the house. The instinct is to keep them under l...

Since February I’ve been urging my kids to figure out what they want to do this summer.   “Find out what your friends are doing.   I’ll s...

Last week’s tragic news that an eight year old boy, Leiby Kletzky, was abducted and murdered in Brooklyn has many parents debating the merit...

At a screening last night of the documentary film “Race to Nowhere,” another mother and I were marvelling at the fact that we were seeing t...

Just ask a 13 year old. Nothing is more painful than having to watch your mother dance. (I may be one of the few people who survived adolesc...

Some birthdays provoke nostalgia.  My daughter turned thirteen this week and I can’t help but feel a little wistful.   I’ve been remembering...

They say that children's books have the power to make a greater impact on your character than the books you read later in life.  When I ...

The Lazy Mom , who writes about parenting in a way nobody else can (or should), has a new blog The Mommington Post , her "opinion on Mo...

A few weeks ago during the “grey area” of boredom between camp and the start of school, my son had a playdate with an old buddy from presch...

Miss E., my oldest (second from right) and her friends are starting middle school today! I was talking to my sister-in-law yesterday about m...

Richard Louv is the author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder . We carpooled over to Sarah Lawre...

Have you heard about the book “Last Child in the Woods” by Richard Louv ? The book suggests that some of the attention deficit problems many...

The grassroots group that I volunteered with during the campaign took a bus to Washington DC at 2 a.m. this morning. Today I'm kinda wis...

There was some great discussion going on recently over on Garden Rant about the No Child Left Inside Legislation that has passed in the Hous...