I gave my kids a wide variety of toys – cars, building blocks, dolls, science kits, crafts, athletic equipment.  I wanted my daughters to love cars as much as dolls and my son to love playing house as much as playing cops and robbers.  Well, my daughters loved dolls and dressing best and my son [...]

Hugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown is an insightful well-written young adult book that deals with the emotional upheaval of having a bipolar parent.  It is both very sad and very uplifting, giving a very real picture of a young girl whose bipolar mother leaves, forcing the daughter and father to recreate their own [...]