If you’ve been watching American Idol this season (and I am just outing myself here and telling you I have), you know that the quality […]
Smartmoney.com had a thought-provoking article last week on the rising number of Americans who are taking out student loans—to send their children to kindergarten. That’s […]
The scariest thing about the Easter Egg hunt that was cancelled due to parents’ overly aggressive “help” is that I’m not surprised. I have been […]
Actress Mayim Bialik, of Blossom, Big Bang Theory and What Not to Wear fame, stopped at the National Museum of American Jewish History over the […]
Oh, Julia Roberts, please shut up. No one is browsing People.com for parenting advice from you. I log on to rest my brain, and vote […]
This week, In the Life Media debuted a web-exclusive “It Gets Better” video featuring parents of transgender kids – the first of its kind. In […]
Every once in a while, you read something that gives you hope for America’s future. That’s what this story from the New York Times recently […]
MIT offers a one-day etiquette course called Charm School. It runs all day and offers instruction in things like first impressions, dressing for success, and […]
I started out drafting a funny little sarcastic blog for today, but I can’t put my mind back to it; last Monday’s school shooting in […]
Late last month, it was all over the news that YouTube was showing videos of students getting “shmacked.” Apparently, getting shmacked means drinking and doing […]
A few months ago, I wrote a piece for the Philly Post about community service at my college called “Villanova Gets Student Volunteerism Wrong.” The […]
This time of year, high schools across the country host the parents of incoming freshman, and basically, scare the shit out of them. The same […]
Comcast offers cable TV. Comcast offers high-speed Internet. Comcast offers long-distance telephone service. And now, Comcast offers its Xfinity Home Security package, complete with a […]
What do you do when you need an immediate answer on whether Uganda is in east or west Africa, the weather forecast, or discounted Canadian […]
At my office, there’s a table in the kitchen that I’ve been avoiding like the plague. Casually sitting next to the microwave, there they are: […]
