Lyz Lenz

Over the holiday weekend, my family went to a water park. Within two minutes of arriving, my daughter made a …

My 4-year-old fell asleep coming home from the park one day. She never does this. So, I brought my toddler …

People like to warn me about my daughter and her feelings. ‘Girls are so hormonal,” they will say, as she …

We were face-timing with Grandma (who prefers to be called Mimi) when my son pulled my daughter’s hair. I could …

Last spring I hauled my kids to go watch my husband play softball. As my daughter covered herself head to …

‘Mom,” my daughter said, as we drove to dance class, ‘why is our car not made in America?” I pretended …

When I called poison control after my baby ate a cigarette, the woman on the line just laughed. ‘You’d be …

I recently made the decision to let my daughter play outside alone. Our backyard is adjacent to the kitchen and …

A few weeks after my daughter turned two, she told me I was squishing her baby chickies. Well, more like …

‘I  will be 4 soon,” my daughter told a perfect stranger at a restaurant. He was kind and smiled. ‘Oh, …

There have been moments, when the kids were screaming and there was poop on the floor and my whole body …

Just the other night, at a friend’s house my baby walked up to me and handed me a long metal …

My husband is a planner. Our first Halloween in our house as I prepared for our first round of trick-or-treaters, …

I wasn’t adequately prepared for the snow storm. The Midwest has been my home for 16 years now and I …

At first I thought I was going crazy (or crazier). I kept finding wadded up balls of paper and tissue …