Face it. Doctors are pretty lame with practical advice on stuff that should come naturally to babies. So here are a few tricks we’ve picked – none risky, we promise – that might help you get your baby to sleep or back on track sleep-wise. Dads, take charge. This is one area where dads can [...]

Despite all the press on “stay-cations,” a recent Jiffy Lube survey says that 88% of Americans will still take a vacation this summer. While traveling alone used to be the provenance of the beleaguered mom, more and more often, it may be dad who is alone taking the airplane, train, or Greyhound bus.   Some dads [...]

Bring on those lazy, hazy crazy days of summer. Those days of pretzels and beer. Or, in our household, an interminable season lacking the discipline and order that normally keeps our sanity intact from September to the end of the school year. Suddenly, in June, the kids are there at breakfast, and still there at [...]