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Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist, and New York Times bestselling author of My Boyfriend Is Boiling In My Purse … And Other […]
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Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist, and New York Times bestselling author of My Boyfriend Is Boiling In My Purse … And Other […]
Continue reading »Before we get started here today, you should have two important pieces of information: 1. I love good parenting tricks and 2. I’ve never been […]
Continue reading »The regular cold and flu season is bad enough when kids bring germs home all winter. But this year, we may also add the sinister […]
Continue reading »You could say parenting is one big pick-your-battles game of many years. Sometimes you get really clear about the rules and agree with the consequences. […]
Continue reading »If your kids use Contigo water bottles with silicone spouts, you may remember that millions of them were recalled for choking hazards back in August […]
Continue reading »My cell phone is in the kitchen next to my wife’s phone while I play on the floor with my two-year-old daughter Ella. My wife […]
Continue reading »You knew that sooner or later this would happen, and now, all of a sudden, your child is a teenager and everything about you annoys […]
Continue reading »It goes without saying that what is called “Skull Shattering Challenge” is not a good idea, but it doesn’t seem like it should be self-explanatory […]
Continue reading »You probably have a few tricks to get your kids to talk about their day after school or at the dinner table. But sometimes you […]
Continue reading »After a long week at school, kids don’t necessarily want to spend the weekend doing household chores. They watch TV better than vacuum. Or build […]
Continue reading »A few years ago, my mother-in-law bought my six-year-old daughter books on reading and math. When I asked my daughter if she would like to […]
Continue reading »Fast: you have two children, one of them is seriously injured and has to go to the hospital, and the other cannot go in an […]
Continue reading »Valentine’s Day is an incomprehensible holiday. This is the modern “Celebration of the Brand “, which probably dates back to the ancient bloody pagan festival […]
Continue reading »Making friends is not for all of us – or for our children it is natural. Or sometimes, making a part is not as difficult […]
Continue reading »If our children seem to be more planned, more anxious, and more pressured than ever before, it is because they are likely to be. It […]
Continue reading »Now you can watch the Oscar-winning animated short Love of Hair on YouTube and you should. With own children. Because ignorance and / or racism […]
Continue reading »Movie theaters can be overwhelming for anyone. It’s a huge action, a piercing smell of buttery popcorn and an incredible volume. But for a child […]
Continue reading »I did not intend to be the parent of an only child; just sort of like it happened. And since my husband and son and […]
Continue reading »The clip, in which former NBA star Dwyane Wade talks to Ellen DeGeneres, hits social media this week as a touching example of how every […]
Continue reading »Do you know what would be great? If only Safer Internet Day was held every day. When it comes to the Internet, parents have a […]
Continue reading »Sometimes, from time to time, the child simply does not want to obey. Do they need to go for boots? No, it’s not . Is […]
Continue reading »A few years ago, while traveling to different preschools for my daughter, I visited one where I had the opportunity to observe children playing in […]
Continue reading »At the end of last fall, my son participated in a two-day football tournament at the end of the season. It was long, cold, stressful […]
Continue reading »Our kids are cute! We love our kids! Sometimes we may like other people’s babies. Even so, they can be tedious little creatures that need […]
Continue reading »Parents have a lot to do in a day. There are places to go, food to cook, work to be completed, and dishes to be […]
Continue reading »Captain Cowards – and, of course, fourth graders George and Harold – made their way into the hearts of young children for the first time […]
Continue reading »The alarming report released today by ProPublica on the safety of child safety seats sold by Evenflo and others, serves as an important reminder for […]
Continue reading »Facebook is mostly always in the news due to some kind of privacy concern. On one such occasion, they – rightfully – received a lot […]
Continue reading »Have you ever wondered exactly how many days you were a parent? Not? Well, I, too. That was until I saw this Facebook post from […]
Continue reading »As part of a program aimed at discovering new storytellers and storytelling techniques, Disney + released a short film featuring a non-verbal autistic character in […]
Continue reading »As someone who writes a lot about parenting and with the exact purpose of helping make all aspects of this monstrous, daunting task a little […]
Continue reading »My son, like many children, had an ongoing relationship of love and hate for the crust of bread. However, more attention has been paid to […]
Continue reading »Yes, it’s a cliché to exclaim that children “grow up so fast!” But it has become a cliché because it is true. Especially when it […]
Continue reading »Right before Thanksgiving, I told you all that you should only allow your kids to eat rolls during a large meal if all they want […]
Continue reading »Biz Ellis, on the One Bad Mother podcast, calls him “the president of everything .” In a family with two parents, very often one partner […]
Continue reading »If you or your kids have ever wondered how big a wolf, shark or tiger really is in the wild, Google has a way to […]
Continue reading »If I had to guess, I would tell you before motherhood that I would be the parent who would be an ardent advocate for her […]
Continue reading »Yesterday my son and I were out of work or school, and we had all sorts of plans for how we would spend the day […]
Continue reading »As a parent of an only child, I don’t believe many of the prevailing stereotypes about singles. As a group, they are not spoiled, unadapted, […]
Continue reading »When I asked our parent Facebook group what they would like to read about on Offspring this year, I noticed one topic that came up […]
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