My mornings start with coffee: coffee and a phone call with my mom. When I was a young adult, I called my mom first thing when I got to work (because I am old and we didn’t have cell phones yet!) ...

LaVina Hawkins is a 45-year-old who lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland. When she was 9, she went to her first sleepover and was teased by the other girls. She called her mom and asked to be picked up.

While she visited when she could, our conversations over the phone helped me. I've been a mom for a decade, and I still call her as soon as I drop off my kids. When I became a new mom, I didn't have ...

DEAR ABBY: I am a 54-year-old mother of two, a wife and a full-time teacher. My days are long, busy and usually uneventful. Every evening, I am expected to call my 84-year-old mother, who lives a few ...

A frustrated dad has turned to social media to vent about his daughter's schoolteachers refusing to call him in an emergency. The Reddit post, titled "Our kids' school keeps calling my wife despite ...

A teenage girl who was killed in a gang shooting asked her friend to call her mother when she was fatally wounded, a court has heard.