Parenting

Every time the sun sets without President Joe Biden acknowledging his seventh grandchild, his masculinity becomes more — what’s the word? — toxic. Thanks to a quiet settlement a few weeks ago, the president’s son dodged a paternity trial…

On Wednesday, after 29 blissful years of marriage made in Marxist hell, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray announced they are separating. If Donald Trump had ever married an out lesbian to…

As a child in the late ’90s, I associated summer with a greater connection to community. In our suburban neighborhood, everyone emerged in May like groundhogs, very pale and slightly shell-shocked, after the interminable Pittsburgh winter.…

Start SlideshowMove over, wine moms, there’s a new type of negligent parent in town. If you happen to know a mother who smokes cannabis, here are things you should never say.AdvertisementPrevious SlideNext Slide2 / 20“Are you really smoking…

The culture war is here and it is real. Everyone who drinks beer or shops at Target knows this, but not everyone knows how to fight, or where to aim fire. Our government, our schools, and our families are smoldering in the wreckage. What do…

What do you buy for the man who has everything else (aka almost every dad ever)? Great question. And since Father’s Day is right around the corner, it’s time to start asking it. Even if your dad has a lifetime’s worth of junk cluttering…

As I write, our children’s schoolroom is festooned with rainbows. Christina Rossetti’s poem is on one shelf, Frederic Edwin Church’s painting on another. Hand-painted rainbows — colored with enthusiasm if not with Church’s skill — by our 5-…

The curtain closed on Amy Sherman-Palladino’s cinematic masterpiece, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” last week after five seasons. The final season, and especially its finale, elicited mixed reviews from critics and viewers. I’ve been a…

“Look, Mommy! A rainbow flag!” My 4-year-old daughter excitedly pointed at a suburban front porch as we drove home from a luncheon with friends. I shifted uncomfortably in the passenger seat and paused before responding to my precocious…

My friends and I are bracing for the annual rainbow onslaught poised to swamp families coast to coast this June. This year’s storm looks like a Category 5; it’s already blowing the doors off the nearby Target and wreaking havoc on the Bud…