Balancing Act: It's perfection season (SATs! GPAs! Promposals!), and here's what our kids need to hear

I taped my Mother's Day gift to my kitchen wall, where it will stay for all eternity, both because it's filled with love and light and because it's a good course corrector.

My son made me a Mom's Gazette (Special Edition!), which announces my ascension to the position of World's Best Mom. "One mother breaks all records to be named Top Mom," it reads, above a hand-drawn rendering of me wearing my favorite