Admit it. As much as you love your family, you need a break from food shopping (and cooking), errand running, dirty diapers, soccer games and the mundane day to day. The answer? Gathering your girlfriends for a weekend (or week) away. Don't feel guilty about it either. A recent study by Los Angeles-based Impulse Research reports that nearly 50 percent of women have gone on gals'-only getaways in the past three years and that 90 percent hope to do so sooner rather than later. So, what are you waiting for? Give yourself a Mother's Day gift and start packing to try any of these 10 retreats located in the United States.

All parents can use extra help at times, whether it's for a child's developmental issue or something more serious, such as crisis intervention. Fortunately there are numerous resources on Long Island that you can turn to.

A 32-year-old mother and business professional arrived at the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center in Manhasset looking for help with her three-year-old son. She described him as difficult and always in need of attention, and thought her son's behavior had gotten worse since his sister was born four months ago. Mrs. A., a Long Island mother who asked that her name be withheld, had not yet gone back to work and had also just moved to a new home with her husband and family.

The shooting at Virginia Tech by a student who shot and killed 32 people before killing himself was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Regardless of the location or age group of the students, much of the nation struggles to understand the unending streak of school violence and many students are experiencing intense sadness, anger, fear and, perhaps guilt.