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This Thanksgiving: Thanks for Not Being Chicken, Moms!

I'm thrilled to have cowritten this piece with Esther Wojcicki, author of "How to Raise Successful People." We think that some of the most thankful people in America this year might be the moms you see on Instagram who let their kids do something new on their own -- and that their ...Read more

Most of us would agree that the slogan "Just Do It" has served Nike pretty well. But this fall the company added a new slogan: "Why Do It?"

And the question is ... why'd they do it? Why did they start asking a deep, philosophical question instead the ol' kick in the pants?

I'm guessing it's because so many kids are "just doing" so very little ...Read more

Because my kids are in their 20s, I didn't realize until recently how common it has become to end a game or even practice of baseball or soccer with a treat like candy, cookies or donuts.

To me, that sounds heavenly, since the games can be boring and cold, and boy, do I love donuts. But for the kids? I worry not that they are getting an ...Read more

A friend just asked me how we got to this point -- a point that she is miserably in the middle of, beside herself with guilt for missing an afternoon pickup of her kid at school (someone else pitched in!), or for having to cut bath time short to take a work call.

The pressure to be perfect and ever-present, and somehow control every aspect of...Read more

"Let me tell you about Alice," said Mariel Mussack, an attorney with Community Legal Services, testifying in the Pennsylvania state Legislature on Monday. Alice, Mussack said, is a single mom of two who was also caretaker for her younger brother, aged 13. When she needed to run a brief errand, Alice had her brother babysit her nearly 1-year-...Read more

Here are some things most Americans believe but I don't:

-- You must have a water bottle with you at all times or you will die of dehydration, or end up drinking Coke instead and die of diabetes. (Or you will end drinking Diet Coke instead and die of something Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is worried about.)

-- Your kid should not play at the park ...Read more

Chelsea F.'s baby, Teddy (both pseudonyms used at the family's request), was born with serious genetic problems -- heart defects, breathing issues and brain abnormalities. But when Chelsea rushed the 5-month-old to a Texas emergency room in January after he developed a fever, seizures, vomiting and what was later determined to be a brain bleed...Read more

The story of a 5-year-old who wandered away from home is going viral today for a wonderful reason: The cops did not arrest the parents!

In Jacksonville, Florida, a 5-year-old named William managed to leave his family's home and fully fenced-in yard one recent morning and walk over to the local Chick-fil-A. Alone!

Whereupon the employees couldn...Read more