Dear Santa,  I know this is last-minute, but I'm sure you'll understand that I've been a bit busy lately, what with the work...

One of my favorite holiday traditions is watching Christmas movies with my kids. There's just something about all those old classics tha...

1. LAUREN'S HOPE This medical id jewelry is gorgeous and functional! With such a huge variety of styles and colors, there's some...

This weekend, my 6-year-old daughter pulled out the doll house and asked her 8-year-old brother if he'd play with her. He was perfectl...

Christmas carols are playing, there's a nip in the air (well, except here in Florida where it still feels like summer), the scent of gin...

When I was looking through the Target catalog at the top 20 toys this season, I thought of the hot toys back when I was a kid. I tried expla...

Kids (and I bet a fair number of parents) in Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Tennessee are groaning tonight. These five...

I awoke with a sense of doom. I grabbed my phone and checked the date. December 2. Whew! It was only a dream (or rather a nightmare). In m...

I wrote about some of my top tips for surviving the school year HERE . And when I checked out the Tyson Any'tizers Snacks School Year ...

I remember the Easy-Bake Oven I had as a kid. It looked like one of those fancy new inventions called microwaves, and it was in the hotte...

I was sitting on the couch, laptop open, staring at my screen while trying to come up with something brilliant to write. I couldn’t focus...

So I was reading this article by Suzanne Venker on Fox News here . The article was in response to a report from the Pew Research Center sh...