Americans have a tendency to live for work, while Europeans work to live. This living for work can make work your life, and create tremendous stress on anything that is not work that you try to incorporate into your life — like a husband, a wife, children or a golf game. At the very least. […]

I’m rubbing my obsessive compulsive hands together in gleeful anticipation. It’s getting close! It’s almost here! I can’t wait!!!!
To most OCDers, the end of the year–after Christmas is over and just as New Year’s Day dawns–would have to be like first warmth in Siberia. The Christmas stuff comes down and, blessedly, doesn’t have to be cleaned around […]

Some of the scams that new parents fall into are:
Photo scams — starting IN the hospital. Many hospitals have photographers who take first photos of new babies and then offer to sell them to the parents. Parents find it hard to turn down baby’s first photo. Photographers know it and capitalize on that.
Nanny scams […]

The best way to make sure you have last-minute child care is to plan ahead — make this a New Year’s Resolution!
Here are four tips for setting up a back-up plan before you need it.
1. Collect a pool of babysitters. Keep a file somewhere in your kitchen with this list of babysitters, their names, […]