Picky Eaters Plus My Dinner Table = A Recipe For Disaster
I. Can't. Stand. Them. Picky eaters, that is. They work my nerves with their empty forks and their I don't eat that declarations and their...
All Day Sucka: When Buying Pets For Your Kid Goes All the Way Wrong
This is what happens when you cave and let your kid take home a pet. They die.
On the Parenting Post: The Little Millionaire Next Door
Mommy would slip into the dressing room at Macy’s or Bloomingdales or Saks or Penny’s with an armful of fancy dresses and pants suits and...
Prayerfully
It’s the pageantry of it all that I remember most. Weeks before Easter, my mother would hit Macy’s, searching through the sale rack for the...
EVERYBODY Should Read Black Children’s Books
Yup, I admit it: For years, I’ve been on a secret mission to integrate the bookshelves and toy chests of a bunch of my daughters’...
(Not So) Social Butterflies
So Lila gets an invitation to a schoolmate’s birthday sleepover and before she can tumble off the bus good, she’s shoving the little glossy card...
Evil Black Men
It was supposed to be a simple assignment — a little something to remind the kids about their lesson on adjectives. Magazine and newspaper...
Government Cheese
It’s the cheese I remember – a congealed, yellowy-orange block in non-descript paper, with, I think, blue writing. You needed the might of Solomon to...
Save the Babies: Help For Haiti's Children
The numbers are incomprehensible 50,000, 100,000, half a million. Perhaps we'll never know never have the accurate accounting of the unspeakable loss mother Haiti has...
What Real Role Models Are Made Of
“I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models…. It’s not like it was when I was growing...
