Parenting advice seems to be the a favorite form of advice. Parenting - for those of us with a dominant advisory gene – brings out our soap boxes. For much of my sons' lives, I thought if other parents followed the guidelines that I had used in raising my sons (which were virtually the same parenting styles my parents had used in raising me), their kids would be obedient, trouble-free youngsters.

I can now admit that following both sons' high school graduation, I breathed sighs of r...

First written as a story in the late 1940s, Rudolph's biography became a Christmas Carol, a book, a short cartoon, a television special, and an animated movie. Six decades later we still love the story of how the unusual red nose (the reason for bullying Rudolph) makes him a hero.

Similarly, beginning in the middle '60s,...

Here it is again: The Season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Winter Solstice, all of the above, or none, the hustle and bustle of December seems impossible to ignore. For many, the frenzy of gift-giving associated with Christmas brings up issues that connect both ...