Yes, Your Time as a Parent Does Make a Difference - NYTimes.com
The claim that parenting time doesn’t matter is the bottom line of a single recent study by a team of sociologists who suggest that child outcomes are barely correlated with the time that parents s...
Laughing With Your Kids Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Them
A sense of humor takes years to develop. Babies burble and laugh at peekaboo, toddlers love pratfalls, and potty humor is the pinnacle of wit through elementary school. Understanding different type...
Making time for kids? Study says quality trumps quantity. - The Washington Post
“I could literally show you 20 charts, and 19 of them would show no relationship between the amount of parents’ time and children’s outcomes. .?.?. Nada. Zippo,” said Melissa Milkie, a sociologist ...
50 observations from a month of paternity leave
Brennan Carney is a teacher and Head Varsity Football Coach at Burlington High School. He and his wife Keri (also a teacher and coach) had their first son, Cooper on 12/29/2012. During his paternit...
Parents are unconsciously setting their kids up to be materialists with fragile egos via Quartz
On Quartz, Sonali Kohli reports that taking things away from kids when they do something bad led them to be more insecure as adults, and that insecurity made them associate material things with suc...
Author and sociologist Dalton Conley: You can't recreate the feral childhood
Dalton Conley is a professor and sociologist at New York University and author of several books, including his most recent, “Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Science of Raising ...
Ask Angela: Should we have another kid?
"Ask Angela" is a bimonthly relationship advice column for parents. Submit your question here with the subject "Ask Angela." Dear Angela - My husband and I are so back and forth on the idea of h...
Parental Leave Can’t Just Be for Mothers - HBR
Vodafone received a ton of attention (including from us) for its new 16-weeks paid maternity leave policy in the US. After all, the US joins Lesotho, Swaziland, and Papua New Guinea as the only nat...
Q&A: Raising Kids Who Want To Read : NPR Ed : NPR
Author and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, Daniel Willingham, on raising kids who want to read: "For me it's a family value. It's something that I love, something that I find...
This is why your parenting style matters
There's loads of talk today about parenting styles, parenting techniques and parenting preferences. From Velcro and Helicopter to CTFD parenting, there's a whole lot of advice smathering cyberspace...
Introducing Vicki Hoefle on Parent.co!
I’m happy to introduce Vicki Hoefleto Parent Co. readers. Actually, many of you might already know her; she's helped many thousands of families create happier homes through her writing, classes and...
What you need to know about coaching your kids Part 2
Practical advice from dad coach Justin Martin on coaching your children. I started coaching my kids three years ago. One son is seven, and the other will be five next year (maybe I'll get the oppor...
Parenthood insights from Kim Gordon's new book "Girl in a Band"
IN HER COMPELLING NEW MEMOIR “Girl in a Band,” Kim Gordon writes about her life as a wife, mother, artist, designer, and founding member of the band Sonic Youth. Kim Gordon is a badass, one of th...
Julia Sweeney on parenthood: 'This is how it’s going to be,' and then it changes again
Actress, author, and monologist JULIA SWEENEY published “If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother” with Simon and Schuster in 2013. She’s also well-known for her work as a Saturday Night Live cast m...
5 parenting "hacks" that need to knock it off
Alright. You're probably all wondering why I've gathered you here today. People of the internet, there is something we need to discuss. There seems to be a universal need for the "hacking" of thing...
Study: Parents wrongly think sugary drinks healthy
Many parents believe that drinks with high amounts of added sugar — particularly fruit drinks, sports drinks and flavored water — are "healthy" options for kids, according to the report, funded by ...
Here are the chores your kid can help with, sorted by age
I'LL NEVER FORGET the smug look on my then pre-schooler's face the day I arrived at pick up and caught him putting his coat on all by himself. "Wait. He can put on his own coat?" I asked the neares...
What you need to know about coaching your kids
Practical advice from dad coach Justin Martin on coaching your children. Are you coaching or thinking about coaching your kid or kids? If so, maybe my experiences can help you understand the sh#t ...
Are you raising nice kids? A Harvard psychologist gives 5 ways to raise them to be kind - The Washington Post.
via The Atlantic, "Do Children Just Take Their Parents' Political Beliefs? It's Not That Simple"
A recent study shows that children who are raised to have strong beliefs are also more likely to rebel against those views as they age. via Do Children Just Take Their Parents' Political Beliefs? ...
via The Atlantic, "Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail"
High responsiveness and low demandingness parents don't give their children the chance to solve their own problems. A study explores the resulting low confidence and lack of independence in student...
When giving freedom to a child is the right (if scary) thing to do
LATE LAST SUMMER, as I attempted to get dinner ready, my son was working himself into a tizzy about something I can't recall. I allow myself to get pulled into these downward spirals all too often....
NYC is one of the very best places to bring a kid
My family just returned from an impromptu trip to New York City. (Impromptu as in we were going stir crazy here in Vermont and needed a reprieve.) NYC is one of the very best places to bring a kid....
Via Quartz, "You probably don’t know the real story behind Baby on Board signs"
"Whether or not the sign can be used as the ultimate testimony of an unhealthy obsession with one’s children, there are a enough legends surrounding its creation and use to prompt a little record-s...