Snuggles, Not Struggles

Reading to our kids is something most moms love to do with little ones. But the fun doesn't have to stop as they get older …

As little girls, most of us played house, corralled a friend to be the "husband" in a mock wedding ceremony and then, later, pretended that our dolls were our children. The dolls, of course, were almost all female and did exactly what we told them to do. Imagine our shock and surprise years later as grown-up women in real households with daughters who not only don't do a...