My family had lunch with my friend Suzanne and her crew the other day. The last time I saw her was two years ago, when Truman and I drove two hours to her small town to visit with her and her two boys. Truman was barely 3 then and he tornadoed through their house, destroying a lamp and nearly giving...

Filed under: Toddlers, Preschoolers, Kids 5-7, Kids 8-11 Recently, a mom at her wit's end wrote a letter to Dear Abby: What should I do, the mother worried, with a sore loser? It seems that her 10-year-old son, "Harry," ends up in tears if he doesn't always win -- and has no problem with cheating, i...

Meg took her first step last night. It was more of a lunge as she moved from Andy's bed to Bjorn's waiting hands, but after she did it, we both looked at each other, smiled and agreed we would consider it her first. We practiced for a little while afterwards, but she was only saving her steps for Da...

  So, a few months ago Christian Bale went a little crazy-faced McGees on the set of Terminator Salvation. Well, apparently studio execs sent a tape of the aforementioned freak out to the insurance company, which has now been leaked to TMZ. And boy, is it priceless. You can listen to the audio ...

A consequence is something that follows naturally from a person’s action, inaction or poor decision. It differs from a punishment in that a punishment is retribution. Punishment is “getting back� at someone, to hurt them back for a hurt they did. When you get a speeding ticket, it’s not a re...

Years ago, I was on my way home from work and stopped off on Nostrand Avenue to get some food for the house before Shabbos started. It was an overcast day, I remember, around 5:30-6 p.m., the sky was a steely slate-colored gray, and I had my heart set on marinated mozzarella balls. Walking along the...

There is a New York Lottery commercial for the game called “Money Money Money� on 1010 WINS, an all-news all-the-time radio station in the tri-state area, and it is just about the most annoying commercial I think I have ever heard in my life. It stars these two completely MORONIC putzes, Oscar a...

The name of gun-toting incest pornographer and former Republican Jim Webb keeps coming up when people talk about who will be Barack Obama's vice president, mostly because the nomination of a Sexist to the second highest office in the land would explode the collective heads of every Hillary supporter...

Have I mentioned in the past that I have zero tolerance in my life for bigots, especially if they are anti-gay bigots? If not, well…I have now. I am bigoted against bigots. They freakin’ SUCK. You don’t like gay peeps? Well, I can’t particularly relate to that, especially since I don’t min...

With the temper tantrum of a few weeks ago, I've been reading and rereading books for strategies on dealing with him. One thing that seems to be helping is making a real effort to get him into bed at a decent time. I'm now giving both kids a bath more or less at the same time. Meg loves to lay on th...