Sixty-five million years after the Mesozoic, we entered a new dinosaur era: Barney. The green-bellied purple dinosaur modeled kindness in educational direct-to-video movies and a 1992-2010 PBS series, ...

How can I prove I love you? And, just as importantly, how can you prove you love me? Easy, the way people always have. We can show we’re a great big family by giving each other comfortable footwear.

I have two toddlers at home. And the littler, at 18 months, is finally eager to sit through a book, or seven, if they engage her. She climbs up next to me on the couch while I drink my morning coffee, ...

As dinosaurs go, Barney is a poor excuse. He’s purple, a color that would make any self-respecting dinosaur blush. His skin is soft and huggable, not all scaly and wrinkled. He has a mouth full of ...