My New Heartbeat

When did a daycare curriculum start to resemble a college syllabus? Or better yet, when did daycares start using the word “curriculum”?

I pity my child’s pediatrician.
Although he says he is used to it, I’m sure he tires of how a simple, routine check-up turns into a criminal interrogation with me.

Everyone said the first weeks of parenthood would be the hardest.

Do you remember the best parenting advice you ever received?

We are entering a new world of pregnancy innovation…

My 8-month-old daughter looks like a cage fighter… I don’t mean in terms of size.  But her appearance right now resembles a mixed-martial arts competitor – who lost. CeCe has mastered the art of crawling and can pull herself into a standing position, which has led to constant rug burns and scratches on her legs, […]

June cleaver can kiss my butt…
No offense to the lovely Barbara Billingsley — TV’s idealized mom of the 1950s.

I read “War and Peace” when I was 7 years old. I memorized Hamlet’s soliloquy when I was 5, and I ran the New York City marathon when I was 3. Do you believe any of this? Of course not. Yet so many mothers I know might believe me if I said my daughter did all these things.