Dear Dr. Laura,
Well, it seems you have found the secret to a golden career selling books by the million and luring in listeners to your radio show – be one-sided and controversial. Get your face on every TV show that will take you and tell them how you know you are right because you lived both lives – as a career woman and as a mother. Tell them how you can separate the two, but other women should not because our children need us, especially in the first three years of their life.

The thing is, Dr. Laura, I don’t disagree …read more

I try not to. Really. I do. But when he’s such a shining joy — and yes, he’s a pain in the butt, too — I can’t help myself. I do limit myself as much as possible, and edit 70% of what really wants to slip out of my mouth.
It’s hard to be sensitive about the fact that not everyone wants to talk about kids, just as I don’t want to listen to a blow by blow reenactment of someone’s cat’s derring do’s. I’m glad there has been a baby boom at the office, because that does give me a …read more