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I feel a bit like the child in Hans Christian Anderson’s The Emperor’s New Clothes, who cried out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!”  I imagine that some…

What’s a grandparent to do? Marti Erickson makes a practice of keeping two collapsible chairs in her car trunk. If she’s having a particularly stressful day,…

Sometimes people will come up to me and tell me right to my face that they think I’m one of the most generous people they know. I’m always surprised and more…

While the big media “meat” of last year, pink slime, a filler in ground beef, got some extreme press exposure, there’s another additive present in meat – and…

“The Thinking Moms’ Revolution is in the grand tradition of Rachel Carson. It is the Silent Spring of this generation. If you are a parent of a…

The bill has some teeth. The question is whether it has legs. Action Alerts! The Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act was introduced last…

I think it’s true to say that by the time our children leave home, we’d love to think that a few nuggets of our hard-won wisdom will go with them as they set…

April is Cesarean Awareness Month.  This is one woman’s story and may not reflect your experience. I’m supposed to say I’ve recovered and that the cesarean …

Children learn about the world through comparing and contrasting relationships between things. They learn to “be still” when they are told to “stop wiggling.”…

Listen to the original interview with Jamie Grumet on her experience as the Time cover advocate for full-term breastfeeding in May 2012.  Lisa Reagan asks Jamie…