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Find out how many kids are really being taunted and what you can do as a parent to step in

Mr. Dean, Mrs. Kelly, Ma’am — such formal titles sound so quaint now. But not even a generation ago they were in common use. Children, in particular, were asked to address adults formally, and it was considered impolite for a child to refer to an adult by their first name.

Though women have a choice as to whether they have kids, there's still an overwhelming social expectation that most of us will reproduce at some point. But is that really what you want?

Who makes dinner in your house? More importantly, who does the post-meal cleanup? Who loads the dishwasher, wipes down the counter, empties the sink stopper of all that trapped food and who rinses out the cat food tins before tossing them into the recycling bin?

My kids are done with summer. They had a great one. We had wonderful weather, spent a lot of time swimming in a warm lake, they played outside with their friends a lot, we took walks and went for bike rides…