I refused to be one of those people who criticized – or even commented too much – on Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead , until I’d read it. Since my week included client crises, a non-profit board meeting, tap and drum lessons and oh yes, recovering from the hour...

marketing unhealthy food to our children Earlier in the day we watched this short video which I forgot to include in Part one of the MomsRising FoodPower Conference Recap : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu8QthlZ6hY Moving. Disturbing. Incredibly true. After watching the Soul Food Junkie...

Dr. Robert Lustig’s groundbreaking study linking sugar and diabetes should motivate all parents to up their game of junk food whack-a-mole. The researchers found that in countries where the incidence of diabetes went up, the availability of sugar had increased earlier and in roughly the same...

Last night at din­ner, my first grader described the big cup­cake that he ate yes­ter­day at school in honor of a classmate’s birth­day. Between bites of pasta mixed with spinach-walnut pesto, he offered a detailed account of choco­late cake, colored sprin­kles and a copi­ous pile of frost­ing. I,...