"She has a very hard time going to bed on her own and will not let us go downstairs when it's bedtime." A TMP Times member sent me that line recently, and if you're already nodding, here's the rest of what she told me. Her daughter put on her pajamas, jumped straight into her parents' bed, and ...

It was the last evening of our 5-day summer trip to the beach. We were out shopping for a souvenir, something small to remember it by. We ended up in a tiny gift shop at the top of a lighthouse, the kind of shop where you have to turn sideways to get down the aisle. My husband had escorted our ...