Just Sit Back and Relax!

	Baby Einstein vs. Barbie Overscheduled kids. Overprotective parents. They're hot-button media issues, but are they really the problems faced by most American families? Beware of Dubious Teaching Secrets The media crowned a study as the answer to the Boy Crisis — but the study's "proven" effects are negligible at best Bad News Comes in Small Bytes Are we forgetting how to be honest in person? When Moms Are Gatekeepers Women want their husbands to do more of the childraising — but some are having trouble letting go. Uncle Sam Wants You In an age of corporate layoffs, one organization has hundreds of thousands of openings on the horizon — and nobody to fill them Will This Marriage Last? A wedding-season guide for handicapping the newlyweds. A variety of factors can lower the odds of divorce to 20%, or raise it to 70% Just Sit Back and Relax! Why do Americans have to work so hard at taking it easy? Are Americans Suffering Diversity Fatigue? People are willing to be tolerant, but only to a certain point. And from California to the Midwest and Florida, signs of exclusionary thinking are popping up all over.

Ahhh, summer. Time to goof off. There's only one catch. It's not goofing off if you take it too seriously. But taking vacations seriously is exactly what we Americans seem to do. In the same way our kids' free time is now packed with activities, we grownups have turned vacations into "active leisure." Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure. Our vacations come with an agenda, a purpose. We're visiting family, attending weddings, going camping, checking out that darn museum and making sure we ride that roller coaster--no matter how long the line is. We Americans are...