23 Exceedingly Helpful Tips For Maintaining Your Sanity While Living With Children
“Do not paint any walls in your house with flat paint” is just one of our many helpful tips for staying sane while raising children.
“Do not paint any walls in your house with flat paint” is just one of our many helpful tips for staying sane while raising children.
Once kids are school-aged like mine, it’s reasonable to expect them to shoulder some pet care responsibility. However, keep in mind that, although they may want to handle something like the litter box or dog walking, they might not be ready just yet.
I just found out — thanks to Facebook — that one of my best friends is getting married. And I’m not invited. What happened??
I told my mother-in-law that her tradition of playing Santa before Christmas might be confusing to my young daughter and now she’s upset. What should I do?
Everybody’s favorite! Reader-submitted updates on past columns, questions and queries.
A mom finds herself and young family pulled into her husband’s family’s cycle of emotional and verbal abuse. She needs practical advice on how to save the relationship with her children’s grandparents, if that is at all possible.
My husband stays home with our son and is falling apart. I don’t know what to do or how to help.
Is there ANY way to nicely tell other parents that you think a pack of wolves would probably do a better job raising their child?
You love the baby but not the name. What do you do when you regret giving your baby his/her name?
My mother-in-law potty-trained my twins and forbade us from using pull-ups. We’ve had nightly accidents ever since but she won’t budge! Will we really ruin everything by using pull-ups at night?
I made a conscious effort to figure out what would make me the happiest. What things gave me the most bang for my buck, so to speak. And the rest I just let go. Is there a way to just be happier? Or is the real secret to stop making yourself crazy with the things that don’t matter?
I have two job offers and a million people I’ll be letting down if I choose either option. How can I stop trying to please everyone else long enough to figure out what I want?
A couple of life lessons I have learned and want to pass on to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, before she enters high school about age and frenemies.
Should I get a tubal ligation done during my C-section? Or is that too much, all at once?
The secret to successfully blending a family is making peace with it being messy and ongoing and scary and wonderful.
Things to avoid when visiting or staying with brand-new parents.
An experiment with family meetings to see if they work.
When I introduce myself from here on out, I am supposed to say, “Hi, my name is ______________, and I’m an alcoholic.” That’s the first step, according to the brochure some nice woman handed me as I entered my first AA meeting day before yesterday.
My husband is a terrific (yet overly ambitious) cook. So we’re eating dinner at 9 p.m. — or even later. There’s got be a way to streamline the family dinner process!
I lost my job a few months ago and am trying to enjoy staying home with my kids full time…but I’m miserable and I hate this. Am I a bad person?