Traveling during the holiday season is never easy: Think traffic jams, winter weather, delayed flights, and crowded airports. This year, thanks to high fuel costs and cutbacks in airline service, things could be even worse. When you add squirming kids into the equation, you may be tempted to simply hunker down at home. Key Takeaways: Dress your kids in holiday

If they are capable of lying about something so special and magical, can they be relied upon to continue as the guardians of wisdom and truth? If adults have been lying about Santa, even though it has usually been well intentioned, what else is a lie? If Santa isn’t real, are fairies real? Is magic? Is God? Key Takeaways: I’m

A friend of Mrs. Smoothie just had their third baby, and they are in the throes of colic after having two easy babies. First, for parents that haven’t experienced colic, it’s hard to convey the extreme difference in having an easy to soothe baby and a baby with colic. Around the same time, there was this interesting shift among her

It felt normal for Mrs. Peas to share her holidays with extended family, and she loved getting together with them. While she loves seeing our extended family, holiday travel was exhausting and expensive even before we had kids. As her children get older and they solidify their holiday traditions and potentially add more peas to our pod, they will likely

My pregnancy was long overdue and to avoid being induced for the third time running, I tried to start labor with two tablespoons of castor oil. Incredibly, it worked! I was eventually on the couch watching Japanese tentacle porn when I finally broke down and called UCLA to report the state of my labor. Key Takeaways: It worked to my

Christmas time is here, by golly, but do you really want to deck the halls with boughs of holly? Are you left cold by the commercialism, and yearn for a simpler time when the season felt special, imbued with a spirit that wasn’t poured into the eggnog? Do you really feel like recapturing some of the magic and wonder of

When it comes to parenting, we’ve been working with a mixture of lessons we’ve learned from our first three little ones, but our latest baby’s personality is a brand new ingredient. One major challenge: Teething. It is painful for little ones and spans years of their life. Key Takeaways: When it comes to parenting we’ve been working with a mixture

Although many parents don’t expect the terrible twos to start until their toddler is two years old, it is important to note that it can begin anytime during your child’s second year, and so any time after their first birthday, and unfortunately, sometimes even before. Characterized by toddlers being negative about most things and often saying ‘no’, the terrible twos

Do you already have kids? If you’re already a mom, you might have friends in your group who are expecting a child — and it might be their first, but it might not. It could be their second, or their third, or… Let’s not go there. Just because you were pregnant once doesn’t mean you remember just how to treat

Does it ever feel like there are certain things you do that other people just don’t get? This might be the case – and almost certainly is if you’re an adult with kids, and even more so if you have friends who don’t have kids themselves. That doesn’t mean the things you do are weird though, especially when they’re related