Parenting

In 1974, humorist Erma Bombeck published a syndicated newspaper column that looms over the lives of American mothers whether they've read it or not. In "When God Created Mothers," Bombeck describes God making a mother...

When friends ask how we're doing, I answer like everyone else who has both a job and their health: I say I'm lucky and so grateful. Then I joke about how at the start of...

I had made it as far as the street corner when it occurred to me that I hadn't paid. I'd said goodbye to my friends at the restaurant and walked out. When I returned, embarrassed...

"Have you ever baked a cake before?" I asked Quinn, 9, at the beginning of a recent recipe-testing session in Boston. He seemed a little nervous as he shook his head no. But just over...

I can’t exactly pinpoint one thing that led to my ultimate breakdown. Rather, I believe it was a collection of stressors that slowly eroded away my ability to cope. My son Tate, like most preschoolers,...

In 2016 the Attorney General of Texas came to my home for dinner. It was an unlikely gathering: I’m the mother of a transgender child and Attorney General Ken Paxton is one of the biggest...