I know I am not alone in saying that customer service, in many cases, is a necessary evil. The people who work the phone or online are...

We all talk about and live through the teenage-to-young adults moments that make us as parents roll our eyes or unleash our tongues –...

Influenza A hit me hard last week and my family is still trying to recover. Even though I went through the whole flu shot routine it was...

As the kids reach the late-teen to early-adult years, the parent-child relationship goes through a renegotiation phase. While the...

On Tuesday night, Number 2 came home! It has been nine months since she was last home, but I say it has been a year because she was only...

My husband and I have been long-time fans of Parenting with Love and Logic, founded by Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline. It just makes sense,...

As a self-professed Kevin Bacon fan – yes, I spent my teen-formative years in the 80s – I thought, on my walk today, of the 1991 movie,...