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When your five-year-old wants to dance with gypsies, Mom is left with tough choices.

A son's five-year birthday doesn't have to be vast and lavish, just fun.

Learning to lower them is among the keys to good parenting, and sanity.

Tackling a special needs child can produce some odd bumps in the road.

Times are not good when you need a pregnancy test you didn't want.

An open letter to Heidi Klum: "Why the $#&* are you breaking up?"

If you want a sure cure for a lifetime of Santa skepticism, try kids.

When you child decides he wants to be a boat for Halloween, take it as an augury.

Children and Macs are a match made in iHeaven — until you lose control.

Picking Biggie over Tupac doesn't help with the "where?" of kid-raising.