Super Summer Reading for All Ages

Super Summer Reading for All Ages

Moms / Mom Tips

There’s plenty to do inside on rainy summer days, and if you have a child who’s not a big reader, then there’s no time like summer to get him interested in books. They’re great to take along on road trips and airplanes, too, and it does today’s kids good to…

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The Dos and Don’ts of Contraception

The Dos and Don’ts of Contraception

Love / Intimacy

If you don’t know the importance of having protected sex by now, you have probably been living under a rock. Society has repeatedly driven home the magnitude of safe sex. The message is simple — if you don’t want to end up pregnant or with a sexually transmitted disease, cover…

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Keep Your Child from Being Materialistic

Keep Your Child from Being Materialistic

Moms / Mom Tips

Gimme, gimme, gimme. If that refrain sounds familiar, then you may have a materialistic kid. With all the online and television ads — not to mention peer pressure — that bombard kids every day with the coolest, trendiest toys, it’s no wonder kids want more and more stuff. If your…

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Child-Rearing: Home on the Free Range

Child-Rearing: Home on the Free Range

Moms / Mom Tips

You may have heard of the uproar caused when one New York mom and blogger allowed her 9-year-old son to ride the subway alone in 2008. Lenore Skenazy armed her son with maps and subway routes and sent him on a short trip to prove that so-called “helicopter parents” are…

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Don’t I Ever Outgrow Adult Acne?

Don’t I Ever Outgrow Adult Acne?

Style & Beauty / Beauty

When I think about what things were like when I was a teenager I can’t help but make this strange expression that looks like something in between a smile and a grimace. I’m sure most of you make the same face. Being a teenager was fun, it was first loves…

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Add Avocado to Your Menu

Add Avocado to Your Menu

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Most people confuse an avocado as a vegetable when it’s actually a fruit. Whether used in a salad or prepared as guacamole, avocado isn’t just delicious — it packs a mean nutritional punch. Avocados, which are low in calories, are rich in Vitamin E, Vitamin C, thiamine and riboflavin. Each…

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When Should You Start Dating after Divorce?

When Should You Start Dating after Divorce?

Love / Love Tips

You’ve just untied the knot and are embarking on your new single life. But are you really ready to take the advice of all those friends that tell you to “just get out there”? It depends. First, depending on your state, if you’re separated from your spouse, then dating outside…

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4 Hottest Movies to Get You Going

4 Hottest Movies to Get You Going

Love / Relationships

Ask your man about his idea of a hot movie to get you in the mood, and it’s likely you’ll get a one-word answer: porn. The notion makes many of us ladies wrinkle our noses, but why is that? It probably has something to do with the way we’re wired….

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