Laua Doyle’s “The Empowered Wife”: Ending Worldwide Divorce through Intimacy and Joy
Laura Doyle claims her mission is to end worldwide divorce. Through her book, originally published as “The Surrendered Wife” and updated as […]
Read Aloud 5 Minutes a Day for Harmony in the Home
Claims made in personal improvement advice seem improbable to impossible to one muddling through an ordinary day. Standing in soggy shoes after […]
What to do with Your Most Annoying Child
Here, we begin a series on “your most annoying child.” Everyone has one! Just as we should not play favorites, it’s bad […]
Eliminate Print Patterns for Increased Calm
Years ago, I wrote about the question “Why Does My Child Scream Uncontrollably?” This question followed a disorienting interaction I had with […]
Practically Speaking: Feeding the Freezer and Putting the Kitchen to Bed
In general, anthropomorphizing household objects grates on me. When people insist on calling furniture “she,” I resist joining their frivolous fun. However, […]
No Snacks and Better Lunch: What We Feed Our Children Matters
Last year, I wrote about my belief that we should abolish snack time for children. France, one of the few places resisting […]
Greg McKeown’s “Effortless”: Strategies to Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others
If you know what it’s like to get a word stuck in your head, you’ll know what I meant when I say […]
The Strange Malady of Having Regular Parents
I’ve written before about the crushing weight of trauma people seem to have in response to events and experiences that are, objectively, […]
Pursuing Creativity through Order in Motherhood: “The Baby on the Fire Escape” and “The Compleat Woman”
There’s a cultural misperception that spontaneity and impulse are the fertile ground of artistic expression. Undeniably, there is a long and storied […]
Bee Wilson’s “First Bite”: Rethinking How We Eat and the Breastfeeding World Tour
There are certain writers whose work, no matter the topic, I will read because their perspective is perennially interesting. Such is the […]