My sister has three little kids. She has two very well-behaved little girls and then she has MICHAEL. He is basically the fly in the ointment of the whole operation. She just can’t understand why he won’t behave himself like the angelic little girls…..perfect example….. My sister lives in this great house perched on a hill. She has a steep driveway, a bunch of stairs to the house and...

When my kids were younger than they are now, I must admit…..some days seemed a little long - okay, really long. Like a lot of parents, I would read to my kids all the time. Also like a lot of parents, I would be asked to read the same books repeatedly. To keep myself entertained (come on, how many times can one person read “The Foot Book” with the proper enthusiasm?), I would read the books...

Every parent hears horror stories of kids destroying cars, houses, carpet, and even maiming their siblings. My husband and I considered ourselves pretty lucky. There had been a few vomiting episodes in cars, the occasional baby food splat on the walls and a few minor mishaps with the pre-children glass coffee table. Our kids seemed to have pretty good sense. They understood that crayons and markers were for...

I don’t know about your house, but this is how home projects go in my house……. SLOW. My husband loves to do home projects. But here’s the problem….he works no less than 3,000 hours a week and when he’s not at work or travelling to and from work, he’s running around like a lunatic helping me get four kids to a million different places. Bottomline, he has NO time. He,...