The Dreams of Dr. Mommy

Positive Bullwinkle sign, is what we called it. When our oldest was an infant, he would take his hand, with fingers and thumb in full extension, and would frequently bonk the right side of his…

The sofa in the den has a Karin-shaped crater in it. I’ve spent so many hours lying there lost in the Steve Jobs biography that it may take me days to puff the cushion back into shape.

I’ve…

In my generation, college campuses were the loci of dissatisfaction with the status quo. College was where kids raised by even the most lackadaisical of parents learned how to care about what was…

“Is swaddling my baby a bad idea?” asked a mom, just…

My daughter doesn’t know who Kate Middleton is, but at two she already wants to be a princess. She loves pink and dress-up and to order us around. Her favourite movie is Cinderella (what were we…

Just recently, a deliriously happy and understandably tired mother of a newborn looked at me earnestly, perhaps even guiltily, and asked the following question: “Is it ok if I use a pacifier for…

A friend of mine once said jokingly, “The best way to discipline your children is to make the first one a throwaway. If you murder the oldest one for misbehavior, the others are sure to toe the…