Topic: Susan Shapiro Barash

An angry teen daughter who dresses provocatively, smokes like a chimney and professes a love of porn is a parent's nightmare.. . So what do you do...
This is the story of the second-shift mother. ?It's a particular challenge for the working mother,? says Susan Shapiro Barash. ? Shapiro Barash spoke with over 200 mothers in researching her newest book, You're Grounded Forever? But First, Let's Go ...

Secrets of a Made-to-Last Marriage

I think of the birth of my two sons as hurricanes -- gale-force winds and lashing rain that buffeted the " Three years into parenting, I can now say that our home was built strong enough to withstand our two little whirling dervishes, Hurricane ...

the upside of envy

I laugh it off when my boyfriend brags to me that the pizza joint cashier flirts with him every day at lunch and when he tells me an attractive girl in the car ahead of him paid his toll once. Was I ...