Over the past 15 years I have been raising kids, I have identified a trend. This isn't necessarily a good trend, either. You see, I have what I fondly refer to as "two sets of kids." The older teenage set, and the younger grammar school set, and over the years, I've worked with both sets [...]

Most days I do believe that it is great being a girl! Most days it is absolutely true. Then there are those days where perimenopause plays with me making me curse Mother Nature for being such a sarcastic, hateful, evil bitch. Note to the guys that read my blog: this is all about girl stuff [...]

Most days I do believe that it is great being a girl! Most days it is absolutely true. Then there are those days where perimenopause plays with me making me curse Mother Nature for being such a sarcastic, hateful, evil bitch. Note to the guys that read my blog: this is all about girl stuff [...]

Most days I do believe that it is great being a girl! Most days it is absolutely true. Then there are those days where perimenopause plays with me making me curse Mother Nature for being such a sarcastic, hateful, evil bitch. Note to the guys that read my blog: this is all about girl stuff [...]

Most days I do believe that it is great being a girl! Most days it is absolutely true. Then there are those days where perimenopause plays with me making me curse Mother Nature for being such a sarcastic, hateful, evil bitch. Note to the guys that read my blog: this is all about girl stuff [...]

Most days I do believe that it is great being a girl! Most days it is absolutely true. Then there are those days where perimenopause plays with me making me curse Mother Nature for being such a sarcastic, hateful, evil bitch. Note to the guys that read my blog: this is all about girl stuff [...]

I am a firm believer in the thought that it takes a village to raise a child. When I was growing up, you were disciplined by the nearesst adult, be it grandparent, aunt, uncle or whoever, only if your parents were not there to do it. I will tell a child, any child to be [...]

Dear CVM Readers; This is my last post here.  I am grateful for the opportunity to blog on this wonderful site.  For those of you that would like to stay in touch, please email me at bruce@brucesallan.com or visit my website, www.brucesallan.com, where my regular "A Dad's Point-of-View" column is posted each week or Google [...]

I’m sure you catch just a little sarcasm in the title of today’s column.  Patience has and is my biggest personal struggle.  With me, with others, with the world at large.  You’d think that having kids would moderate that poor characteristic.  And, I suppose, to some degree it has.  But, in general, this is my [...]

Recently, I saw a really funny commercial showing a man leaping with joy as he pulled something down an aisle.  It was revealed to be a couch, with his two sullen kids sitting on it, and the background music was the famous Christmas song which extols, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.”  It [...]