What Quality Time With My Kids Really Looks Like
What constitutes quality time “with” your kids? How is that different from quality time “around” your kids?
25 Missions for Your Fall Bucket List
Do these awesome things with your family before the crunchy leaves are covered in snow.
The Challenge of Parenting Through Chronic Pain
Parenting is hard enough as it is. But add to that the debilitating experience of frequent migraines or pain, and it's nearly impossible. Here's how to cope.
How Music Education Helps Teach Kids Empathy
Several studies have determined that kids exposed to music, particularly in groups or in correlation with rhythmic movement, have higher levels of empathy.
5 Halloween Crafts You Can Do With Your Kids
Adults and children love Halloween. Here are five fun, easy and most importantly safe decorating ideas you can create together at home for spooky fun.
6 Reasons You Should Consider A Doula
Doulas are non-medical birth guides that help women and their partners achieve the kinds of births and first weeks they desire. Here's why you might want one.
5 Ways to Meaningfully Support a Friend Through a Miscarriage
You can support a friend during one of the most difficult things she’ll ever have to go through. She needs you. Here's how to show up in a way that matters.
5 Great Halloween Movies With Girl Protagonists
Despite making up half the population, women and girls are often under represented in film. Watch girls take the lead in these female focused Halloween movies.
The First 90 Days of Parenting: How to Crush Your One Job
You have one job for the first 90 days of parenthood: Keep baby alive. So let's strategize. Here are essential things that make life easier, from swaddles to seats.
A Minimalist Parent’s Guide to the Holiday Gift Overload
You don't always see eye to eye with gift-giving family members, especially when you've got a less is more mentality. Here's how to handle a mountain of gifts.
What Makes a Great Hannukah Gift?
I propose that the best Hannukah gifts reference the values of the holiday and contemporary Jewish culture: sacrifice, self-deprecation, humor, and food.
Why I Take My Kids to the Library and You Should, Too
In the age of one-day Prime shipping and the instant gratification of eBooks, do people even go to the library to get books anymore? Here's why it's a great idea.
Let Simplicity Rule When Helping Your Kids Learn
You can pin whatever elaborate projects you want onto your Pinterest boards, but there's no need to be an overachiever when it comes to teaching your kids.
Why You Should Cheer on Your Daredevil
Well, that or cover your eyes. Your call.
How a Positive Relationship With Grandparents Can Shift Views of Aging
The benefits extend beyond your child when they have a positive relationship with their grandparents. It's a love that touches the whole family for the good.
How to Make Art With Little Kids - Even if You Aren't Arty
At a young age I decided art wasn't for me. My coloring didn't stay inside the lines. Then I became a parent. I wanted to foster my kids' skills and creativity.
8 School Day Hacks That Will Transform Your Mornings
Mornings aren't easy for anyone, really. So get your game face on and tackle them like you mean it with these shortcuts that will make life just a little smoother.
How to Balance Household Work When One Parent Stays Home
A division of labor where one person does all the work outside of the home and one person does all the work inside of it would be fairly unbalanced.
8 Ways to Prep for Fall for Kids With Special Needs
Now that fall draws near, the bucket lists on Pinterest pages are filling up. But parenting a kid with special needs adds another layer of consideration.
Here, Take My Kid: A Guide to Raising Resilient Children
A recent study found that links outside the home can improve kid’s resilience, in particular by providing some protection from adverse events in childhood.
Forget the Summer Bucket List, Play Summer Bingo Instead!
By mid-July, people begin freaking out about their summer bucket lists. But since this season is supposed all about fun, we created this summer bingo game.
5 Questions to Consider When Signing up Your Child for an Afterschool Program
Over the course of a typical school year, there are around 525 hours between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. How can you make sure your kids needs are met?
Daycare's 15-Minute Goodbye Rule Did Me an Enormous Favor
Prolonging the goodbye is often more about the parent than the kid. And who knows that better than anyone? Daycare providers.
5 Things I Won’t Skimp on With the Second Baby
First-time-mom-me was way too hard on herself in so many ways. This time, I vow to do just that, and promise myself that I will not skimp on the following.