Dear Shaunti, My 13-year-old daughter rocks at math and science. She is at the top of her 8th grade class, and is one of the only girls in a robotics elective. My husband and I have always told her she’ll make a great engineer or doctor someday, and she used to LOVE that. But she…
Welcome to Marriage Mondays! Each Monday, join me as I share my top findings on the little, eye-opening things about men, women, and relationships that make a big difference in creating great marriages. Tip #49: Wives, if you earn more than he does, show even more appreciation As women’s earning power has changed over the last fifty years, so…
Dear Shaunti: As the new medical director at a large hospital and top surgeon, I am a qualified woman with excellent experience in the medical field and in management. But I seem to be having a really hard time with my male coworkers since I was promoted. I work with a lot of men and…
Okay, I just had to post this update to this morning’s blog. My kids were delighted with the snow day of cancelled school, but highly disappointed that the snowstorm is providing neighborhoods at our latitude only intermittent big fluffy snowflakes and ice, and rain at all other times. They were determined to get the most…
Remember February 2014 when Atlanta was the laughingstock of the country for having citywide gridlock, with tens of thousands of cars stranded on the roads overnight, because of an inch or two of ice and snow? Atlanta sure does! We call that embarrassing episode Snowmageddon, and every Atlanta resident has their own story of that…
Dear Shaunti, My husband and I never used to fight, but there have been a lot of fights, or almost-fights, the last few months. My husband is on the verge of losing his job in a restructuring, and we have three kids under the age of five. So he’s tense and on edge all the…