How Trying to Stand-Up Paddleboard Is a lot Like Becoming a Parent
Open waters, trying to balance. Stand-up paddleboarding is more like becoming a parent than I'd realized.
Parents often feel an insurmountable communications barrier is developing between themselves and their teens. There’s frequently an inclination to ignore it and put it down to ‘just a phase’ the te...
How to Survive Your Toddler's Meltdown (and Support Your Kid Too)
It can't be easy being a toddler. Everything is new and exciting, but everyone wants to tell you what to do. Meltdowns are a guarantee.
3 Surprising Benefits of Ditching Time-Outs
Time outs have become the go to discipline method. But that doesn't mean they're effective for every family. Here are a few reasons you might change it up.
Ways You and Your Family Can Have Better Convo's at Dinner
Getting your kids to open up and actually talk over the dinner table can seem like a monumental feat. Help the conversation flow with advice from Jeanne Muchnick, 'America's Dinner Mom.' What scare...
The 7 Dwarfs of Postpartum Existence
New motherhood can feel like a fairy tale. Right along with your baby come the Seven Dwarfs- Leaky, Sweaty, Sleepy, Moody, Giddy, Weepy, and Droopy.
Gamification for When Life is Cruel...In Your Kids' Minds
Sometimes it’s not fair...these game theory strategies may help children make fair decisions and stop the squabbling. A child’s list of things that are “not fair” is seemingly endless. Researcher...
5 Ways to Calm Your Anxious Kid Before Traveling
For kids who worry, even a fun vacation can be a source of stress. Here are a handful of ways you can ease the what-if's.
How to be the Best Grandma (and Drive Your Adult Kids Crazy)
My mom is a grandma on steroids, blinded by adoration, paranoia, and utter subjectivity when it comes to the objects of her perfection – I meant, affection.
Why Some Stay-at-Home Dads are Depressed
In the past two decades or so, the number of stay-at-home dads has risen—from just over 1 million in 1989 to 2 million in 2012, according to the Pew Research Center. We've also become more visible ...
Getting this kid to give up the bottle is going to be a little like Custer's Last Stand with a side of spilled milk.
10 Summer Camps Parents Really Need Right About Now
Oh, summer, how we love you! Blue skies, long days, fireflies, swimming, s'mores. And, of course, deliriously happy kids! Well, mostly happy kids. Um. Sort of happy kids. Ok fine. Kinda bratty ki...
Parents Fear Pokemon is bad for Kids.
In 1999, when the first Pokémon movie was released in the U.S., TIME featured the fad in a cover story. And, though the magazine took pains to explain the craze to curious readers unfamiliar with t...
Why We Talk About Consent With our Toddlers
It's never too early to teach kids about ownership of their bodies and how to respect the bodies of others. In fact, the sooner, the better.
When 'Stay-at-Home Mom' is a Dream Too Small
Staying home to raise a family is a noble job. But pursuing dreams and creative endeavors can't always take a back seat.
How Tracking When My Baby Ate Made Me a Better Mom
It may sound a little neurotic, but if a baby tracking app makes life as a new parent easier, I'm going all in.
Parents in the US Struggling to Find Happiness Compared to Others
For years, social scientists have known that nonparents are happier than parents. Study after study has confirmed the troubling findingthat having kids makes you less happy than your child-free pe...
Teach Delayed Gratification to Your Kids
The trick to raising smart (and successful) kids is to start developing their thought processes early. ...hundreds of children were tested... ...They could either eat the marshmallow while the re...
Ways Parents can Help Underage Kids Resist Alchohol
To discourage teenage alcohol use, parents can engage their kids in discussion, set some rules and let their children know they care. The study also found that how often parents drank was predicti...
5 Things Parents are Told to Worry About (But I Don't)
It's possible that the issues parents are told to freak out about aren't even the ones that make a real difference in the long run.
All the Monsters My Kids Don't Know
We know we shouldn't allow the harsh judgments of strangers to get under our skin, but sometimes it's hard to let them go.
Parents May Pass on Chronic Pain to Children
Can an increased risk of chronic pain be transmitted from parents to children? Several factors may contribute, including genetics, effects on early development, social learning, and more according...
College a Challenge for Students With Kids
Far too many student-parents drop out, cutting them off from good jobs. There are 4.8 million undergraduates raising children — one-fourth of all postsecondary students. But more than half of thes...
If You Give a Boy a Bag of Chips ...*
Sometimes it's all just one predictable disaster after another.