If you drive through the little town of Grafton, in north-central West Virginia, you’ll find the church where, for 20 years, Anna Maria Reeves Jarvis taught classes, fought for improved sanitation and worked to unite former adversaries in the Civil War before her death in 1905. Her daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis, commemorated her mother’s life [...]

You try to read books to your 10-month-old, but he squirms and eats the pages. Should you wait until your child is older? Parent advice: Choose board books with large pictures, books with tactile features and books that tiny hands can hold. And 5 or 10 minutes (or even less) is plenty of time to [...]

There’s a school of thought, made popular by Whitney Houston, that children are our future, that if you teach them well they’ll lead the way – fiscally that is. So with just 16 percent of workers confident about having enough stashed away for retirement, according to the March annual report by the Employee Benefit Research [...]

Sometimes, seemingly little things are of great import. I was reminded of this axiom recently during a stint as a guest on Dennis Prager’s syndicated radio program. Talk show hosts know they have a minute or so to “hook” the listener, so they generally begin any interview with something controversial, something “hot.” Being a master [...]

We used to watch the news to learn the news, but now it seems we watch the news to watch the anchors. The other day we were watching a market update and in the midst of the Dow surging, I exclaimed, “Look at that woman’s complexion!” “It’s a soft-focus filter,” the husband said. “The Dow [...]

Q: I’m a single mom, custodial parent of a 3-year-old boy. His father and I never married and he was not that involved with our son until he married and had a baby last year. A few months ago my 3-year-old told me he wanted to live with his dad for five days a week [...]