Teen Years

On the endless checklist of things to do before my daughter Leeannah left for college last month was to have her permanent retainer taken...

As I followed the violence in Charlottesville this weekend, I kept thinking about the parents who are sending their kids to University of Virginia...

For a long time, I was fascinated with the story of Elijah the pack horse—I thought it would make a great children’s book. Elijah was...

Not 24 hours before Rob Kardashian lost his mind and secured his place in history as a despicable ex-boyfriend, several of us parent types...

I am writing this from the sofa in our laundry room. You don’t have a sofa in your laundry room? I didn’t either until about...

Last year, when my son was 13, his father and I learned that he had been part of a “group chat” with other adolescents—a...

My 14-year-old son had a day off from school. It was rainy and cold outside, and I figured he’d want to sleep in, so...