A Literacy Coach's Advice On How to Keep Kids Reading This Summer
Kids can lose up to three months of reading achievement if they don't pick up a book this summer. This literacy coach-approved challenge can help.
Help Your Children Develop Good Habits with New Smart Watch
The Octopus watch has three main functions: It serves as a watch, a scheduler, and an assistant that provides helpful tips for parents and kids. ...The earliest uses icons and illustrations to tel...
Study Looks to Support Autistic Children with Adapting to School
A University of Manchester-led study is testing whether an intervention with parents and teachers can help children with autism transfer newly acquired social communication skills from home into sc...
6 Outdoor Family Activities For Non-Outdoorsy Parents
Being outside has many health benefits. But not everyone wants to be swarmed by bugs in the woods. These less outdoorsy alternatives may be more your style.
10 Things Your Partner Might Do When You're Giving Birth That Will Make You Want to Hurt Them
It can be hard to find something constructive to do or say when supporting a woman in labor. But husbands, you can at least try.
Why I Teach My Children How to Forage in the Burbs
I live in a landscape of strip mini-malls. In these increasingly ever-present and very American places, it’s challenging to feel connected to land... I'm not crunchy. I don't wear a nut bag around...
Doctors Tried to Scare Me Out of a VBAC
Childbirth doesn't always go as planned, but when choosing a doctor, it's important that they make you feel heard.
Raising a Son Who is Emotionally Honest
Raising a Son who is Emotionally Honest
Put in More Time With The Kids to Get More Sex
A recent study took into account data gathered in 2006 from almost 1,000 heterosexual couples and found that men and women who equally split child care responsibilities reported far better sex liv...
How to Take Your Kids Camping Without Losing Your Mind
Camping with kids can be the opposite of tranquil. But with these tried and true tips, it can also be a whole lot of fun.
Could all the Selfies be Making our Kids Selfish?
Could all the Selfies be Making our Kids Selfish?
Putting in the Time Over Summer can Help With Scholarships
Putting in the Time Over Summer can Help With Scholarships
Britain's Accessibility to Chocolate a Worry Because of Brexit?
There are more important things to worry about after the UK voting to leave, but this is a pretty big deal Most people are worrying about what it means for our currency, travel in Europe and jobs....
What a Little Attention Can Do: My Momover Experiment Week 4
This spring I turned 40, my daughter turned one, and to commemorate both, I bought an unlimited month-long hair and makeup package, “The Ultimate Zsuzs," from a little salon down the street. My in...
How to Flip the Script on Selfie Culture By Teaching Empathy
The psychologist and parenting expert Michele Borba says society’s fixation with the selfie is having some unintended consequences. We talked recently about “selfie syndrome,” ways to flip the foc...
How Could I Give You Only Half of My Heart?
Everyone promises you'll love all your children just the same. The truth is, it's hardly possible. But there's no question you'll have enough to go around.
Birthday Eves :The Magic (and Sadness) of Growing Up
Once a year, on the night of their birthday, magic comes around. It stretches their bones and steals their round cheeks. Whether we're ready or not.
Antibiotics During Childhood Can Impact Digestive Microbiota
A project followed the development of 39 Finnish infants from birth to the age of three. Half of the children received 9-15 antibiotic treatments during the research period, and the other half did ...
Watch This if You've Ever Changed a Diaper
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WeWork's Co-Founder Sets Example by Ditching the Phone at Home
WeWork's Co-Founder Sets Example by Ditching the Phone at Home
Why I Hated, Then Loved, the Motherhood Facebook Challenge
The job of motherhood encompasses the good, the bad, and the ugly. Sharing that honesty is completely worthy of a hashtagged challenge.
This is How Robots Could Make Our Lives Better
19 jobs for 'bots (and why that's not such a bad thing) Real-life robotics today transcend mechanical form and exist in software-guided tools that can automate work and change the outlook for many...
Many Professional Golfers Thank Their Fathers for Shaping Their Lives
Many Professional Golfers Thank Their Fathers for Shaping Their Lives
Children can Become Overly Self Critical When Parents are Intrusive
In a five-year study on primary school children in Singapore, researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) found that children with intrusive parents had a higher tendency to be over...