This column serves as a follow-up to Mitchell Chapman's Aug. 26 column "It's time to give foster children the right to know their own stories." The past can’t heal you. That’s something you have to do ...

Many children grow up dreaming – or maybe even expecting – that they will become a star in football, basketball or whatever their favorite sport may be. Most parents have more realistic expectations ...

Change is the law of living things, the constant process that keeps upsetting and resetting the terms of our existence all the time. Moment to moment, one day to the next, our lives are in constant ...

Choosing your parenting style can seem overwhelming: helicopter, free-range, Tiger Mom, lazy, F--- Around and Find Out, attachment -- and even just bad. But there’s one that strikes to find a balance ...