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Mothers Who Hover

Are You a Helicopter Parent?

Mothers Who Hover

October 21, 2008
By Karen Nitkin

If being a helicopter parent means helping your children succeed, then Owings Mills mother of three Halaine Steinberg pleads guilty. Read more »

 

In Search of a Child

One Couple's Quest to Conceive, and the Charity Their Journey Spawned

In Search of a Child

September 25, 2008
By Merrill Witty
Photography by Jim Graham

Becky Snyder moved to Baltimore’s Federal Hill right after college. She had met her boyfriend, Kipp Fawcett, while they were students at Franklin & Marshall College, and he moved to Baltimore with her. Becky worked as a senior account executive for Baltimore Magazine; Kipp began his career in finance at T. Rowe Price. Read more »

 

The Other “Other Woman”

Learn to love your mother-in-law

April 30, 2008
By Elizabeth Heubeck
Illustration ©Pusicmario, Dreamstime.com

The red-eye flight home from her honeymoon in Hawaii was harrowing, so when she and her new husband finally got back to Baltimore, Jenna Smith could think of nothing better than dropping her bags at the foot of the bed and crawling under the covers. Read more »

 

Finding a Sitter Is Not Child’s Play

February 23, 2008
By Emily Parks

Jennifer Pyne has spent the better part of her Tuesday night looking for a babysitter, without much luck. She and her husband, Greg, need someone to watch their two children, ages 3 and 1½, on a Saturday night two weeks from now and she’s afraid she’s waited too long to start calling. “It’s really hard to find an older teenager to babysit,” the Towson mother says. Read more »

 

Whose House is it this Year?

November 2, 2007
By Abigail Green

Last year Kate Feiring organized six separate Christmas celebrations with her family. First, she and her husband, Mark, drove from Baltimore to visit her brother’s family in New York. They were joined there by Kate’s father, who flew in from Colorado. A couple of weekends later, the Feirings drove back to New York — except this time Kate’s mother was in attendance. Read more »

 

Divvying Up The Duties

Share Chores and Fun with Children

June 11, 2007
By Mary Medland

As women have flooded into the workforce over the past several decades, it figures that they were spending less and less time with their children. Read more »