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Question: My 11-year-old daughter has been friendly with a group of girls in our neighborhood for years. But recently, they seem to be pulling away,...

    Tasked with writing about health and well-being for this month's column, I wanted nothing more than to avoid talking about my own screwed up...

QUESTION: My son worked out all winter and was even privately coached to prepare for his high school lacrosse team tryouts. He got cut from...

Question: Spring break is fast approaching and my middle-school-aged daughter wants to know why we aren’t going anywhere “cool” over break. She tells me most...

Protests, marches, and demonstrations aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. On a number of issues people are banding together to express their resistance and in...

Talking about the “birds and the bees” with our children is tricky, uncomfortable and, in many ways, a parent’s nightmare. But it’s a part...

February’s always been a weird month for me. After the wiz-bang-rush of hurtling through the holidays and the shiny new possibilities of a new...

This January there will be no female president moving into the White House, despite the hopes of so many. On election day, I ran into...