So you’re a parent and that thing parked in your driveway is your home away from home — your castle on wheels.
But unlike your home, your car doesn’t have a dishwasher, garbage disposal, and housecleaner (okay, but we can wish for that one, right?). And no matter how many times you tell the kids to [...]

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers, that is.
While I completely understand all the reasons to use hand sanitizer, I hope this campaign has illustrated beyond a shadow of a doubt why you should NOT use alcohol-based hand sanitizer.  And “because the Today Show has got me all in a panic over substance abuse” is not even in the [...]

I’m quite certain my car looks like it went through Hurricane Katrina — well, the inside of it at least. It’s one of those things that no one tells you when you have kids.
Your car will be a wreck. Get over it.
And then my daughter became a toddler and had to bring at least three [...]

Sure. Pick up that raisin and eat it — it’s only been on the ground for four seconds!
Works for me.  After all, isn’t it the FIVE-second rule?
While I’d like to credit my older daughter’s exceptional health to all the instances in which we’ve strengthened her immune system through the consumption of food that has spent [...]

Puddy: “Oh, germ-o-phobe. I know what that’s about.”
Elaine: “Huh?”
Puddy, showing her his necklace: “I’m a recovering germ-o-phobe. Ten years.”
Elaine: “What is this symbol?”
Puddy: “It’s a germ.”
From Seinfeld, Season 9, Episode 9, “The Apology”
Maybe we’re not all card-carrying germ-o-phobes like David Puddy, but I’d bet that most parents want to minimize unnecessary exposure.  I remember visiting amusement [...]