How to Survive a Long Flight With Little Kids
Getting on a plane with a small kid is one of the most stressful parenting experiences ever. These 14 ways to entertain them can help.
Stop Asking Your Kids Questions If You Don’t Want the Answers
It's a common parenting tic- asking questions when we really mean to be giving information. Here's how to nip it in the bud.
Saying “Yes” to Screen Time With Purpose
Three simple ways we’re using the screen to focus on traditionally paper-based goals of reading, communicating, and drawing.
4 Kid Favorites That Stalk Me In My Own Home
You can clean up all you want- it's not going to rid the nooks and crannies of your home, yard, and car of these marks of kid-dom.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Online Parenting Forum
Want a whole host of opinions about child-rearing, politics, and lifestyle choice from other parents? Hop onto your neighborhood online parenting forum.
10 Ways Your High School Senior Will Avoid Writing the College Essay (and How You Can Help)
Writing a college essay can be an overwhelming task. If your senior is dragging their heels, these tips can help them get motivated.
Fatherhood: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
That instant, over the moon, head over heels in love thing people say they have for their newborn? Fatherhood doesn't feel that way for everyone.
You’ll Push Me Away – So For Now, I Hold On
The inevitability of letting our children go is part of the package. But until then, we hold tight in anticipation.
Should You Bring Your Child’s Car Seat on the Plane?
The FAA does not require kids under 2 to have their own seat, or for kids of any age to fly in a car seat. So should you bother lugging it with you?
How to Have Tough Conversations With Your Childcare Provider
Your child care provider is one of the most important people in your family's life. Bringing up concerns isn't always easy.
How to Teach Your Daughter to Love Herself
The good news is that parents are not helpless when it comes to raising girls that love themselves and have confidence in their bodies, minds and hearts
To My Granddaughter: Do Not Lose Faith in People
I want to tell you this world will be all good and wonderful things. I want to tell you there is beautiful inspiration everywhere. And there is.
6 Simple Ways to Help Your Child Cope With Death
Here are some things to consider when faced with calming your child’s fears and answering questions regarding the death of a friend or family member.
My Severe Anxiety Threatened to Ruin a Family Trip to the Amusement Park
Grappling with anxiety is hard enough on our own. But we owe it to our kids to parent through the fear and give them the experiences they deserve.
4 Simple Ways to Help Improve Your Kid's Mood
We all get grumpy sometimes. Luckily, it doesn't have to last long. Especially if you employ some proven remedies.
Can I Please Just Enjoy This Dad Double Standard?
No, I don't like being called the babysitter, but I'm not going to complain about being hailed a hero for simply going to the grocery store with a baby.
You Just Never Know When You'll Say the Words She Needs to Hear
It's not always the words of advice that resonate. Sometimes it's sharing your own fears and admitting you don't have the answers either.
7 Signs You Might Be a Mom-Ninja
There's no secret class. Just on-the-job training that turns new moms into mom-ninjas, one diaper change and managed tantrum at a time.
A Very Brief Guide to the Hottest New Parenting Styles
Despite being a seemingly modern concept, the term "helicopter parent" dates all the way back to 1969. In "Between Parent and Teenager" author and psychologist Haim G. Ginott quotes an over-paren...
To the Extremes: Parenting With Major Depressive Disorder
On a good day, the ups of major depressive disorder make me feel like supermom. But it doesn't last forever.
It's easy to forget what it's like to be a kid. Especially when there is work to be done, bills to be paid, and meetings to reach on time.
50 Shades of Brown and Other First-Time Parenting Worries
As first time parents everything seems important, and also potentially life-threatening. Eventually, you learn to lighten up.
Wishing Your Teen Could Still Be a Baby is Actually Really Hurtful
It's not easy being a teenager. As parents, we have to be mindful of the way they interpret things we say.
Not Perfect, Not Broken: Parenting Through the Fog of Depression
I want my kids to remember the love I have for them when the fog is lifted. The mother who will always be there for them and always love them.