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Drama Queen for a Day: Mommy dearest — not!
Salon Staff
Drama Queen for a Day contest. You think yourmother is nuts. This month's Drama Queen candidates share tales of evil moms who snoop, seduce and induce eating disorders.
How to ruin your kid's summer vacation
Kate Moses
If your children could tell you what they really want to do for vacation, you might find out that your meticulous plans to keep them occupied this summer is all for naught.
My son, the cross-dresser
Lisen Stromberg
Just because he plays soccer in ballet slippers, does that make him a weirdo?
The Best of Friends
Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel
Mendelsohn looks at how Hollywood movies depict friendships between gay men
and straight women
Missing Children
Rob Spillman
"Wanting A Child" collects the stories of writers whose desire to be parents came far easier than the children they longed for.
Sex and the 7-year-old boy
Mona Gable
Parenting manuals don't tell you how to handle it when your son has a crush on you.
Paving the road to Yale — or Palookaville
Albert Mobilio
For the meritocratic baby boomer generation, choosing between public and private schools for one's children is a loaded decision.
Boys without men
Celeste Fremon
When a middle-class mom needs fatherly advice for her son, she turns to a gang member named Crazy Ace.
Dear Daughter: Go to jail. Love, Mom
Dawn MacKeen, Lori Leibovich
Pro-family advocates would rather pass judgment on Monica Lewinsky's mom than on the government forcing her to testify against her child.
The Spock touch
Dwight Garner
More than just a bestselling chid-care guru, the late doctor "Spock-marked" a generation with his politics.
Time for one thing: A guide to fast-forwarding to the most sensuous moments on film
Carol Snow
Though modern parenting insists on the need for moms to think of themselves, everything changes at the first sign of a childish sniffle.
Time for one thing: A guide to fast-forwarding to the most sensuous moments on film
the Salon staff
For the sleep-depraved and time-pressed, a guide to fast-forwarding to the most sensuous moments on film.
Giving experts the Big Slammu
Beth Levine
One sleepless mother finds that "expert" advice from parenting guidebooks, sensible and enlightened as it might seem, doesn't account for the mysterious nature of individual children.
A mom's guide to college admissions
Teri Rosen
No diplomats or Nobel Laureates in your family? Don't despair, your kid will get in somewhere.
Family myths, family realities
Stephanie Coontz
A string of lurid cases this year drew attention away from the real challenges that confront American families.
Reading between the whines
Inda Schaenen
The sevenfold path to coping with seven-step parenting manuals
What's it all about, Barbie?
The Editors of Mothers Who Think
Before the blonde bombshell gets a new body, let's take a fond, final look at the old one.
Barbie banned in Vermont
Sarah Strohmeyer
At least one town in America has decided to stop talking about Barbie and do something about her: In Montpelier, Vt., Barbie dolls have been banned from toy stores, birthday parties, even children's conversations.
who needs dad?
Susie Bright
21st: Bringing up digital baby
Allison Adato
Salon 21st: Bringing up digital baby. By Allison Adato. For prospective parents, Tamagotchi is a stern taskmaster.
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