Category: Big Talks

This post is part of our Big Conversations series, a guide to help parents navigate the most important conversations they will have with their children. […]

This post is part of our Big Conversations series, a guide to help parents navigate the most important conversations they will have with their children. […]

This post is part of our Big Conversations series, a guide to help parents navigate the most important conversations they will have with their children. […]

This post is part of our Big Conversations series, a guide to help parents navigate the most important conversations they will have with their children. […]

This post is part of our Big Conversations series, a guide to help parents navigate the most important conversations they will have with their children. […]

This post is part of our Big Conversations series, a guide to help parents navigate the most important conversations they will have with their children. […]

This post is part of our Big Conversations series, a guide to help parents navigate the most important conversations they will have with their children. […]

The 2024 presidential election is just over a year away, and if you think everything is terrible and crazy right now, just wait a few […]

Throughout their lives, you have worked with your child through many great feelings and experiences, from the first day of school to the mending of […]

As the adults of the world watch as Russia invades Ukraine, unleashing what many fear is the biggest war in Europe since 1945 and potentially […]

I grew up in a rural Michigan town with several relatives who are avid hunters and therefore had guns in their homes. (On one occasion, […]

There is no shortage of difficult and even painful conversations that we may need with our children throughout their childhood. But telling them that their […]

There are so many things to consider when you should tell your kids that you are going to divorce ( we have a detailed guide […]

Every few months, news of another dangerous “test” appears on TikTok that terrifies parents everywhere. From Skull Destroyers to Benadryl Trials , kids are always […]

One of the hardest things about being a parent is living with the knowledge that there are so many potential scenarios or people in the […]

If recent history has taught parents, especially whites, anything, it is that we need to talk more and more deeply with children about race. (I […]

Each new generation of children comes up with their own slang, which may seem a little funny and often confusing to the previous generation. In […]

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day , the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau . While this is an important day for adults to […]

Watching Kamala Harris take over as our country’s first vice president (not to mention our first vice president of color) last week has been a […]

White people in the United States have, over the past few months, been waking up to a reality that people of color have long known: […]

In most cases, we can prepare ourselves for the “ big conversations ” with our children. We can research and plan how to talk to […]

One Saturday morning, as we were driving home from karate class, my then nine-year-old son asked me, “Mom, what is that word?” My husband and […]

When Disney + launched in 2019, some of its classic children’s films included a softball warning that read, “This program is presented as it was […]

We know that talking to children about sex is one of the things we need to do. Not only do we know we need to […]

As soon as you start to help their children plan the costumes on Halloween ( like Halloween or looked this year ), and when you […]

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. It makes today a good day, […]

If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans who became unemployed during the pandemic, you’ve probably faced more stress than just isolation, distance […]

As this strange school year gradually comes to an end, we all delve into content that is educational and fun for our children, but that […]

Do you know what zoom bombing is? Me too – about 2 minutes ago. My 15-year-old cousin chatted with Zoom with her high school basketball […]

“If at least ONE student in my ALL school gets sick with coronavirus, they will refuse classes for ALL,” my nine-year-old son announced to me […]

Unless you’re a black American, you probably (hopefully?) Found a couple of minutes in February to talk to your kids about slavery, civil rights, and […]

Sending kids to college is a serious parenting rite; it can also be intimidating. Suddenly, instead of seeing them every day, you don’t know where […]

If you no longer want to talk to your kids about sex, then it’s safe to say that you really don’t want to talk to […]

As a recently left gay woman, I initially did not know how to talk to children about LGBTQ + topics. But even before I accepted […]

Despite how common miscarriage is, those who experience it often find it a painfully isolated experience. This often happens before the mom-to-be or couple has […]

The main thing holding me back from letting my 8-year-old son join all of his friends in popular multiplayer online games is not the fear […]

When Sonya Smith-Kang moved to California in the 1980s, it was “at the height of The Valley Girl’s popularity,” she says. Everywhere she saw blue […]

It is believed that racists raise racists. Therefore, if you consider yourself a good person raising your children on an inclusive morality, you have no […]

As a parent, the idea that my child – or any other child I know – may be thinking about suicide is something I would […]