IND Media's 17th annual bridal show is slated for Sunday, March 16, from noon until 4 p.m. at The Cajundome Convention Center in Lafayette. Admission is $12 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the local chapter of the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society ...

The damaging of yelling. Photo source: NY Times A recent study from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan found that parents who yell at their teenage children for misbehaving can cause some of the same ...

Dating and the single mom Getting into single mode after being married can be extremely hard. For me I hadn't been single since college and the men I dated in college were not what I was looking for as a now 28-year-old mother of two, full time ...

Getting Used to Color As a designer, I work with tons and tons of different colors for my clients. This has caused me to gravitate to neutrals for my own personal style. I love black, ivory, nude, cream, off-white, grey and maybe a splash of gold. Enter ...

Raising kind minded children. When I was in my clinical internship, a supervisor asked us psychology interns to go around the table and say what we wanted for our children or how we wished for them to be. None of us had children at the time, and I ...

Raising kind minded children. When I was in my clinical internship, a supervisor asked us psychology interns to go around the table and say what we wanted for our children or how we wished for them to be. None of us had children at the time, and I ...

Expert advice on letting go senior year. Speaking of families, for those families who have seniors in high school, "letting go" is a difficult experience. As the school year begins, thousands of high school families begin ...

Birthdays mean reflecting back and looking forward. The anticipation of my birthday dinner with my daughter is always the best. We make our annual trek to Tsunami and she tells me how I look younger than my age and I tell her she must be drinking ...

Family time around the table. The kitchen table in the family home is becoming more of an ornament as time goes by. That's even more tragic for the Cajun and Creole cultures, where the kitchen table was a place to gather each day as a family, share ...

Easing the transitions for kids (and moms) Avery has always loved school, from St. Mary's Early Learning Center to the Academy of the Sacred Heart. She loves to learn and she adores her teachers and friends. So, this summer between kindergarten and ...