Good or bad, we mothers bear the brunt of the blame for our children’s problems. Never mind the fact that fathers are now more involved than ever in their children’s lives. That perception persists. Think Kathy Hilton, mother of Paris and Nicky; Lynne Spears, who is now estranged from daughter Britney; and Lindsay Lohan’s mom, [...]

It’s the middle of the night and new mom Katie Champ rocks back and forth in the dark, struggling to nurse newborn Kaylee. Feeling isolated and worried that her baby might not be getting enough to eat, the Bloomington woman reaches for her new best friend – an iPhone – to check Facebook. She wonders: [...]

BATTLESHIP Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, action and destruction, and for language What it’s about: The U.S. Navy fights aliens. The kid attractor factor: Scary aliens, big ships, big guns, and everybody from Rihanna to “The Greatest Generation” pitches in. Good lessons/ bad lessons: “Adversity is the state in which man most easily [...]

Babies can be good yoga partners. Just ask the folks at Pacific Cultural Center’s Ashtanga Yoga Institute. Babies live in the present moment, are flexible and like to stretch. But the Mama & Baby Yoga classes are really for the moms. One or two volunteers attend, holding and distracting the little ones who have had [...]

Another Mother’s Day, another year of your husband planning the whole day. Should the kids kick in a little help next time? Parent advice (From our panel of staff contributors): Dads should approach Mother’s Day and mom’s birthday as opportunities to teach their kids what it means to treat someone well – and how to [...]

Q: My boyfriend has been divorced for four years. We have lived together for two years. He has three kids, ages 5, 7 and 9. His ex-mother-in-law takes care of his kids when they are not with their mother, which is the majority of the time. The evening visits are usually at the ex-mother-in-law’s home. [...]

Four years ago, at the Beijing Olympic Games, Procter & Gamble’s ad campaign was “Proud Sponsor of Moms.” I complained loud and long about that one – how leaving dads out in such a glaring way was insulting and demeaning. Now they’re back, and are ramping up their insulting, demeaning message a few notches. P&G’s [...]

The cover story in last week’s (May 21, 2012) Time Magazine is all about “why attachment parenting drives some mothers to extremes – and how Dr. Bill Sears became their guru.” That is the article’s subtitle. All I can say, somewhat hopefully, is “at last.” Because my next book, due out in the fall, contains [...]

An advocacy group is petitioning the President to ban photographs of him and all cabinet members eating any food that is unhealthy, mainly burgers and dogs (hot dogs, not the other kind of dogs although they are probably against that, too). To date, the President has had his picture snapped eating a hot dog with [...]

LOS ANGELES-Sarah Hyland has been keeping a pretty big secret for a very long time: The 21-year-old “Modern Family” actress has grappled with kidney disease since she was in single digits. The good news? In April she got a kidney transplant, and now she’s sharing her story, via Seventeen and “Good Morning America.” “My dad [...]