I don't have anything personal against Monday. It's not like Monday's ever done anything to me that she - oh, don't give me that, you know Monday's a she - hasn't done to every...
Husband: "So, that whole thing, earlier this week? That made you a little crazy, didn't it?"Me: "Yeah. Kinda."Husband: "Why? Why did it bother you so much?"Me: "-------?"Me: "-------."I tell stories for a living. Mostly,...
When my nephew, Zachary, was about four years old, my mother pulled a prank on him. This was not at all unusual - according to my mother, children only become fun once they're of...
Rachel Cooke thinks that I'm a dummy. Okay, maybe not me specifically, but women like me. Women who talk or write incessantly about their children and their experience as mothers. Women who, when asked...
Before I had children, I understood that parenthood would be challenging. I read a lot of books about it, actually, because I was a little worried. Would the first months of my child's life...
We have a discipline problem in our house, by which I mean to say: discipline, we have none.We try, we really do. We bargain, we barter, we cajole, we threaten. We will bake cookies,...
My baby? Is a big baby. At 7 months old, he's a husky, roly-poly, chubby-cheeked, fat-thighed chunk of Gerber baby who looks nearly a half year older than his age. He is, as his...
Stop me if you've heard this one before: I haven't slept in days.Jasper is six months old. He doesn't so much sleep at night as he does snooze and hang out between bouts of...
My child is a junkie.It started innocently enough. A little hit now and then, at parties. It couldn't hurt, I reasoned, and besides, all the other kids were doing it. The buzz they enjoyed...
It's possible that you haven't seen or heard about MotrinGate, but I'll wager that if you haven't, it's because you have enough of a life to not be reading blogs or compulsively checking Twitter...