You are so well versed in kids’ lore, it’s scary. Like what bottle doesn’t give gas. Which classes your tots have to take. What size baseball mitt is meant for what age. Fascinating for sure over coffee talk or with other mom co-workers also guilt ridden about being away from home.

Of no interest though to childless friends or associates or even parents who are free from little ones at a cocktail party or dinner. You have to be able to bring something more to the conversation—and we’re not talking celeb gossip you gleaned from the mags in the salon although that can carry you for a few. With Passing Time in the Loo Volume 2 you can get a quick brush up on the stuff that used to matter more to you or that you always had on your to-do list to, well, do.

A compact book for the bathroom (if you missed the first in the series, it’s worth your time too), it’s packed with tons of interesting info that you’ll just want to know and will boost your rap in any social situation. Since no entry is longer than two pages, all is easy to digest. There are synopses of classics, brief bios on fascinating people, wrap ups of world events, famous and fun quotes, poetry, trivia, and more.

And since we don’t have even two secs to shut the bathroom door, take it along for car waiting time at pick up, to doctors' appointments, or commuting, You’ll be amazed at what you don’t know or don’t remember—frightening, we know.

Dish with us: What is the topic of the latest convo you had to bluff your way through?

Devout gardening moms—the type who grow their own vegetables so their little ones won’t have to eat a snap pea from the market or whose to-die-for centerpiece are self-pruned—are way serious about their green patches. Focus is a good thing, but it doesn’t mean you (or she) can’t giggle while doing it.

These gardening stakes [Read More]

It’s getting near that hot and humid time of year again when our personalties switch to strict and mean. Not toward the kids who whine for close to midnight bedtimes and come inside with sneakers doused in dirt, but with our hair. Our disobedient, mind of its own, hair.

Since we are going to tell it what to do anyway, why not give it a lesson to remember. [Read More]

When homework comes in the backpack and the lesson involves the “<” and the “>” sign, we hope to be able to remember which one symbolizes “less than” and which one “greater than” so we can help teach our children. We also hope to instill in them something some may believe is even more crucial than knowledge, which is that doing something to help others is better than doing nothing at all. [Read More]

Happy almost Mother’s Day! Whether it’s your very first or you’re a veteran, our very best wishes. And our very best advice for getting rid of your battle scars.

We’re not talking the sore throat from asking them to “clean up” tons of times (chamomile tea) or the heartbreak of hearing “I’m too old to kiss you goodbye in front of my friends” (sneak one in post bedtime). We’re [Read More]