Collecting My Thoughts

Today is Sunday and we're making arrangements to be with Phil later (had brain surgery on Tuesday). Funny flashbacks to the 1970s. Raisi...

Forty five years ago I was probably considering how to talk to my children about “where do babies come from.”  And as they got a little ol...

I wonder sometimes how my mother got so smart--many happy memories of her reading to my brother and me while the three of us cuddled in a la...

I met this young woman on Facebook, don’t remember exactly how, but I’ve enjoyed her posts over the years.  I’ve also seen photos of her bea...

Seems to be my week to rant about mothers. Yesterday is was mom walking across Tremont Road and using her phone on a gorgeous day outside ig...

I listened to the free range mom on Glenn Beck this morning. Although I was a helicopter parent before the term was invented, my own genera...

This past week has seen the outrage generated by parents of donor and invitro-fertilization children following a now-infamous Panorama maga...

Kids don’t “need” designer clothes, Etsy outfits, brand new everything, more shoes than they can wear before they grow out of them, and 8 th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xq_iCMgP2Q It will take about an hour to watch this lecture by Annette Lareau as she follows up her ori...

A mother replies to an article in the Washington Post about single moms. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/18/the-unbe...

As I look back on the 28 years since I had my first child, Christopher, and then the 17 years since I was blessed with twins, Alex and Sydne...

But this story is from ABC News, just in case you don’t trust Glenn. “One day Justina Pelletier was a seemingly healthy teenager perfor...

A man in his 20s was griping (on Facebook) about needing to live with his parents to make ends meet so he could attend college  (because o...

The USSR and Maoist China tried this, Melissa. "MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry narrating a new MSNBC “Lean Forward” spot, laments that...

“What do you say!” she barked loudly to her small daughter who had just received her do-nut. “Thank you,” the little one meekly replied. I...

"This parking space is for expectant mothers and fathers with new born children." Think about this "gender neutral" me...

I've been known to over react where the health and safety of minor children are concerned, but I believe Abby Sunderland's parents/g...

There was a dad sitting in a lounge chair at Panera's this morning reading Hemingway to his son. The son was about 9 months old and tee...

A mother and her two young adult children. Read it here . "The fact is the worst age for a human being on this planet is between 13 and...