Dinnertime Hacks When Soldier Isn't Home It's important for families to eat dinner together, but that's hard to manage when your service member is deployed.
Why Are Kids Greedy Little Monsters? Kids are selfish. They're, like, ridiculously selfish. Self-absorbed. Inconsiderate. Narcissistic. Need I go on?
If the War Is Over, Why Am I still a Must-Have Parent? We all know our service members won't be coming home and staying put. Not all of them. Not right away. And not for good.
How to Have a MilFam Homework Happy Hour Here are my tips for making sure your kid gets his homework done before you lose your mind.
What's the Point of Family Dinner without the Whole Family? We've all heard that family dinner is important. But how do you make that work when one parent is deployed?
What The ...? I Think I’m Good at This!!! I don’t have that learning-to-be-a-parent chaos. How does that happen to people?
Have a Merry Little Whatever You Call it It's the most wonderful time of the year: the week after Christmas.
Breaking Bad Military Parent Habits What if there were a better way to break bad habits faster and get back to the good ones, without resentment?
You're Good Enough, and People Like You For military Must-Have and Stay-at-Home Parents, friendships can be hard. And if you have a special-needs kid, it's worse.
That Mean Comment You Just Left Ruined the Best Thing for Us Didn't mean to destroy it? Well, you did anyway.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...