It’s a good thing I’m the queen of quick games, because on Friday night when my six-year-old daughter decreed that Saturday would be Family Game Day, I knew I’d be able to honor her wishes while still accomplishing the laundry and everything else I needed to get done. If you’re as busy, backed up and MORE »
I’m freaking out. Full on heart fluttering. Obsessive ruminating about the future. An urgent need to nest, make plans and to-do lists, and have deep meaningful conversations. These are the telltale symptoms of a Mid-Mom Crisis. Those of you with older children know what I’m talking about … it’s like a mid-life crisis but for motherhood, MORE »
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Back in 2011, Jess Craig was having an identity crisis. She wrote about feeling like she needed to stop doing the things she enjoyed before she became a mother, like dancing all night long at the concert of a favorite band: I sort of just labeled myself as a Mom and I stopped caring about the things MORE »
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After Newtown, the whole world wanted action. We must do something to stop the violence, to stop the misuse of guns, and to fix the mental health support system in this country. Today, President Obama announced his plan. “We are going to need to work on making access to mental health care as easy as access to MORE »
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We don’t even know what he said to her yet. Still, everyone’s talking about it. Does Lance tell the whole story? Does he apologize? Will he be forgiven after this is over, thanks to appearing with the country’s de facto Rehabilitation Czar, Oprah Winfrey? I’ve been thinking a lot about Lance Armstrong, his public persona, MORE »
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There’s help, but we don’t get it. The list of reasons why is long: embarrassment, stigma, fear, confusion, cost, insurance, judgment, the treatment itself. People love to denigrate the treatment of mental illness, whether it’s therapy or medication. I’m not much of a fan of those who perpetuate the stigma that psychiatric therapy and medication are bad MORE »
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I have only a few resolutions this new year, one of which is to find smarter ways to spend and save money. I recently learned to do something called comparison shopping. Have you heard of it? In the past, I would see something I liked and then panic and buy it tout de suite at MORE »
Earlier in 2012, Babble launched a new project, Babble Cares, of which I’m proud to be a part. Babble will be doing various projects to support communities in need, and one of the first was carried out in a trip to South America in December. Members of the Babble editorial team traveled to a remote MORE »
I am not a Little Monster. Mainly because I’m not quite sure what that entails, or what the requirements are to be one. However, I will give Lady Gaga major credit for taking some action — real action — after the Newtown tragedy to address mental health in young people. Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation is MORE »
Tis the season of merry making, yet given all the news of late my holiday is not feeling so happy. I need major cheering up to get into the spirit, so I’m turning to Christmas music. This morning I’ve got Cee-Lo Green’s new Christmas album “Magic Moment” blaring from the other room, and I have MORE »
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