Eight years ago, researchers at Columbia University worried a lot of new parents when they concluded that children whose mothers leREAD MORE

Two memories of my early parenting:

First, my older son was about 2, and learning the word “no” (plus the attitude that accompanREAD MORE

Illustration by Barry Falls

In the comments about my sleep post yesterday, Stella wrote: “I think women need to be more firm inREAD MORE

Illustration by Barry Falls

What sound is most likely to wake a sleeping woman? An infant’s wail — and that is true whether or noREAD MORE

A new sign in the women’s locker room of my neighborhood gym tells me “boys over the age of 5 are not permitted.” I am told thereREAD MORE

So much of how you parent is shaped by how you were parented. There are things you do in the same way, because you see them as corrREAD MORE

By the end of today (or tomorrow, if it pours all afternoon) my son will be a high school graduate. I will watch kids I have knowREAD MORE

Two stories in the Times over the past few days raise the same kinds of questions: How young is too young? When did childhood becomREAD MORE

Where were their parents?

That was the thought I couldn’t shake ten years ago as news broke from Littleton, Colo., and all camerasREAD MORE

Children do not bring happiness. In fact more often they seem to bring unhappiness. That is the conclusion of one academic study afREAD MORE

On St. Patrick’s Day, 18 years ago, I became a mother.

I knew nothing about parenting that day. I had held an infant only once befREAD MORE

I have helicoptering tendencies. I like to think that awareness of the problem is part of its prevention, but when it comes to my cREAD MORE

Any parent with more than one child can feel like a lab scientist, unraveling the questions of nature vs. nurture. On the one hand,READ MORE

A thought to file under “let’s try to find a silver lining.”

Any minute now there may be more women in the workplace than men. As READ MORE

Illustration by Barry Falls

It’s wonderful to BE home for the holidays, but not always so wonderful actually GETTING there. This READ MORE

How old is old enough?

Almost everything I thought parenting would be back before I had children has turned out to be wrong. I thought all those people weREAD MORE

Illustration by Barry Falls