Dear Kid Whisperer,

I am the father of two daughters. Our first is 7, and our second is 3. They are very different. My wife and I thought we were master parents until we had the second one. The first kid just did everything we told her to do and was very agreeable about it. The 3-year-old acts like she is being abused whenever we tell her to do...Read more

Q. My ex often says, "You never cared about me, and now you don't care about our daughter." We're divorced, but this comes up repeatedly. When she says it, I find myself defending how much I care — about her, about our child — and the truth is, I don't care about my ex anymore. That sounds harsh, but I have very clear boundaries. I do care ...Read more

I can catch a plane, a ball, a cold and the flu, but the one thing I can’t catch is home improvement skills.

I recently painted a small bathroom cabinet. The project took three days, not including 11 trips to the big box hardware store.

Meanwhile, on six different cable channels, people with home improvement skills ripped out small half-...Read more

Word of mouth has it that my mouth isn’t as big as everyone thinks and that my foot (size 11 wide) isn’t stuck in it.

But the really good news is that an orthodontic resident said my teeth are in great shape because the retainers I use to keep my teeth in great shape are in — you guessed it — deplorable condition.

Sorry, I mean great ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The doctors are in — and they're funny.

Tucked near a Mobil gas station and a Harbor Freight Tools on Hollywood Boulevard, this is one of the highest-energy live comedy shows in town. Or maybe it's the most comedic of therapy sessions in town. Or both.

Welcome to "Comedy & 'Therapy,' " a monthly event at the cafe Coffee ...Read more

BALTIMORE — What if you could swallow a tiny robot that could diagnose, monitor and treat health issues in your gut without scheduling an uncomfortable or time-consuming outpatient procedure?

Researchers at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering are developing a smart capsule to revolutionize how doctors practice ...Read more

Michaeleen Doucleff set out to examine her family’s relationship to — reliance on, really — screens and junk food.

Why was she checking texts at every stop sign when biking with her daughter, Rosy? Why was she mindlessly devouring Pringles? Why did Rosy impatiently count the minutes to nightly cartoons from the moment she got home? When ...Read more

In a perfect world, caring employees would quickly fix your customer service problems.

We don't live in a perfect world.

That's the reason I started writing Problem Solved, a customer service advice column. The premise of the feature is simple: Every week, I take a seemingly unsolvable customer service problem — and solve it.

And there are ...Read more

This year, it is time: It's Lime Time.

Lime Time is a ColorBlaze coleus selection that has proven itself, earning Perfect Score and Top Performer awards from north to south. This will be the easiest plant to grow, offering the most riveting color you can add to your landscape beds.

The Garden Guy challenges you to find another color that ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- South Philly’s Mark Abadi has had a way with word games since he was old enough to pick up a Scrabble board.

By 10, he would complete large-print mini games and crossword puzzles, and started playing Scrabble against his parents.

He became what he calls a “word nerd,” obsessing over newly-learned words and trying out new...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On the corner of West 12th Street and Liberty Street in Kansas City’s West Bottoms sits a former United States Postal Service station.

Coincidentally, the old mail hub is now home to a place where visitors can not only buy stamps, but also make them.

Inside the historic 1920s building is ADHDIY Craft Cafe, a plant shop ...Read more

We have another batch of dating and relationship questions today. Get ready!

Q: How do I heal after a sudden breakup? I feel no desire to ever date again.

A: What you're feeling right now is completely normal. It feels like your heart is literally broken. You feel like you never want to date again. Don't try to override that feeling. It's part...Read more

Dear Anna,

My girlfriend and I have been together for a while, and we have a genuinely loving, solid relationship. The one real struggle is our sex life. This isn’t a case of the mythical “lesbian dead bed,” because we’ve never had a lot of sex. From the beginning, she’s had reasons for not being in the mood — weight gain, stress, ...Read more

Q. My 11-year-old daughter started her period and asked her mother not to tell me. So, she didn't. I found out almost two months later. Isn't this something my ex should have told me, even if our daughter asked her not to? What's good ex-etiquette?

A. This is a tender situation, and it sits right at the intersection of a child's growing need ...Read more

It happened at our oldest daughter’s place. I rang the bell, peeked in the side window and saw an ill-defined, furry mass lumbering toward the door.

My mind flashed back to my days in the Pacific Northwest when Bigfoot sightings were common. Was it a Bigfoot sighting? Here and now, in a sprawling suburb?

As the creature drew closer, I could ...Read more

The failure of colleges of education to teach behavior management is creating PK-12 schools that, through no fault of their own, are in chaos. This chaos is leading to schools churning out anti-social people.

Something must be done, and it must be done right now.

Behavior management isn’t something that you can just know about, it’s ...Read more

At the dawn of 2026, social media influencers at home and abroad proclaimed it the year of the "analog lifestyle," a call to reduce digital connectivity as smart tech and screen time dominate a person's attention span.

Selly Tan, an influencer from California, said people are "craving something real again," and vowed to print her photos, read ...Read more

MIAMI – When a man named Sergio messaged Pastor Jennifer LeClaire insisting she had promised him a personal phone call and prophetic counseling, she assumed it was a misunderstanding.

Though he was an avid follower of the South Florida pastor’s morning prayer broadcast on Facebook, LeClaire didn’t know him.

Sergio told LeClaire that he ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It took nearly a year, but the families of B'nai Simcha Jewish Community Preschool have found a permanent campus in Pasadena after the Eaton fire destroyed their site, a rebirth that has given hope to the battered child-care industry in the region.

Their move represents both the struggles of child-care providers and the strong ...Read more