How to Enjoy Hiking With Your Toddler
A trip to the playground is fun, but if your toddler is in need of a little more adventure, hiking can be a rewarding experience for both of you.
6 Teen-Approved Podcasts for Family Listening
Whether it's a family car ride, or cooking dinner with your teens, there's a good chance listening to one of these podcasts will keep everyone entertained.
7 Ways to Build Stronger Connections with Your Kids (Even When You’re Busy)
There's a lot that has to fit into a day. Work, school, activities, chores, and a million other things. But there are simple ways to connect despite it all.
5 Research-Backed Ways to Protect Your Children from Alzheimer's Now
Here are five proactive steps you can take now to help save your child from Alzheimer's and memory loss later in life.
5 Ways Divorced Parents Can Help Their Tween Feel More Secure
If navigating divorce feels confusing to you, imagine how it feels for kids. Keeping these things in mind can make this new arrangement easiest for everyone.
6 Surprising Benefits of Raising Tween Daughters
Sure it's a tornado of hormones, push-back, and attitude, but having a houseful of tween girls is not without its perks.
4 Reasons It's Good to Argue With Your Partner About Parenting
You don’t really know what kind of parent your partner will be until you have a kid. But even if you disagree, there's a lesson to be learned.
The Dangers of Selfie Culture and How You Can Help Your Kids
In the age of social media, some kids hinge their self esteem on peer's response to selfies. How can we help them explore this sense of self constructively?
Debate Club: Should Schools Be Nut-Free?
Yes, please. by: Jackie Semmens How can this be happening? I thought to myself, watching my one-year-old’s body turn red as the hives spread across his chest. We had done everything by the book: ...
How My Work Husband Saved My Sanity
Getting out of the house and back to work, the friends you find may not be the ones you expect.
Would My Kids Respect Me More if I Was Less Available?
I’ll never have the pull of a mother, I now realize, regardless of what I do. But what if I wasn't so incredibly present? How would they receive me then?
4 Ways to Restore Date Night and Rekindle the Romance
Between kids, schedules, and stretched finances, date night can feel like an impossible dream. These 4 ideas can make staying home just as fun.
3 Simple Ways to Help Foster Independence in Your Grade-Schooler
Our son, now seven years old, is at the age where he is “not a little boy!” There could be no greater insult. So whenever I have an opportunity to let him try on his inner teenager, I jump at the c...
When Number Three Becomes the Only One, for Now
The third kid- often overlooked, usually just along for the ride. But time spent just the two of you, with no older siblings in sight can be magic.
If It's Genuine, You Can Never Praise Too Much
No one wants to raise a kid who thinks the world revolves around them, but genuinely dishing out praise in those formative years is not the worst thing.
17 Sure-Fire Ways to Wake Your Sleeping Baby
Babies. They're onto us and our pesky needs to do anything other than hang out with them. Want to wake one up? Do these things while they sleep.
Strong Relationships With Parents Positively Impact Physical Health in Children
Growing up in a well-off home can benefit a child's physical health even decades later -- but a lack of parent-child warmth, or the presence of abuse, may eliminate the health advantage of a privil...
How to Stop Listening to Your "Bad Mom" Inner Critic
And as with most things, we truly are our own worst critics. Silencing that can help make it clear you really are a great mom.
5 Questions Moms of Girls Should Know How to Answer
The questions our daughters ask only get more difficult as they grow up. Be prepared for how to answer some of the stickier ones.
I Was Going to Give My Baby Boy Up for Adoption, But I Couldn't Let Him Go
Yes, I acknowledge I got pregnant from a one-night stand. I feel guilty because my son doesn't know his father and it's possible that they will never meet. The night he cried about that fact broke ...
Expert Advice on How to Talk to Your Kids About School Shootings
There is no easy way to have these discussions that threaten to crack us nearly in half. These tips from a traumatic stress specialist can help.
AI Now Making Their Own Music...Kind Of
Researchers at Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in Paris have shared a pair of tracks created with the assistance of software called Flow Machines. Researchers can tailor the process to produce ...
Acid Reflux Plagued My Son and Daughter’s First Year of Life
The first year of a baby’s life is amazing. Milestones such as cooing, the first smile, rolling over, crawling, and – for some, walking – are celebrated. I love to reminisce and watch videos, look ...
My Toddler Can't Party: Socializing in the Age of Parenting
Remember when social events used to be fun? Before you had to drag along a toddler?