I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on ….

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It….

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. Wh….

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expec….

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children..

The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured ….

Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a ga….

Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they d….

I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life and death. So my approach is r….

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolu….

I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregn….

I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends ….

In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages….

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and….

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the….

Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap, and become anarc….

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I thin….

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog..