Category: Parenting

In an unscientific exercise last year, Jimmy Kimmel’s team showed some children a traditional clock and asked if they could read the time on it. […]

You must play video games with your children. This is no longer necessary. This is your parental responsibility. Your child is growing up in an […]

One of the first important decisions parents make is how or what to feed their baby. For formula eaters, finding a high quality product with […]

A new product for children has appeared in craft: Glazur salad. This is a ranch in a package. Stub (if it’s not obvious): Kids don’t […]

When was the last time you asked a random acquaintance – or better yet, a stranger! – details of how their child was conceived? You […]

If you enter a “15 minute timer” or any other time period into Google, Google will automatically open and start that timer. But it will […]

If you’re curious about this parenting editor’s morning routine, I’ll tell you that most of it is about running around the house asking, “Has anyone […]

Small children are known to be difficult to feed. They are skeptical about their food: “Hmm, why is this meatball lumpy? Does my pasta touch […]

My 6 year old daughter complained about a girl at school. She often plays with her, but lately she’s upset with the way she interrupts […]

When I entered adulthood a couple of decades ago, money was an absolute mystery to me – or at least the management was. Expenses such […]

Trying to protect your baby from the sun can be challenging (and stressful). Parents usually do not want to use sunscreen on babies under six […]

Can improvisation techniques make you a better parent? Actors-improvisers who have had a chance to raise children say yes. Or rather “yes, and …” Using […]

Before motherhood, I was never prone to depression ( I like anxiety better ). But there were a few times since becoming a parent, I […]

About 93% of American adults are concerned with math to some degree . I acknowledge that I am part of this group. When it comes […]

The report New York Times said that the algorithm YouTube has created what the journalist Max Fisher describes as “a vast audience – perhaps unprecedented […]

The American Academy of Pediatrics requires parents of children of all ages to be vigilant about water safety, especially toddlers and adolescents, who are most […]

While trying to write this article, I had to lift the baby from my knees about 57 times. It would be fair to say that […]

There is almost no school left, which means that your children are about to lose their usual daily social life for a long and hot […]

The first summer I got home from college, I had plans to work, hang out with my high school friends again, and enjoy the freedom […]

On Instagram, Erin Lochner of the Other Goose homeschooling community writes about my favorite parenting practice : When putting the kids down, start with “Once […]

For many, this rolling rubber apparatus conjures up the image of your local public library. You may find that they are scattered around the aisles […]

There really isn’t a bad time or place to read to a child (okay maybe while scuba diving or during root canal treatment, but you […]

To prevent future suffering of the little ones, do not let them lose pieces of the puzzle. Easier said than done – how can you […]

Children’s brains often get a little rusty in the summer – the Brookings report concludes that the average student loses a month of academic year […]

We often mourn the loss of the summer of the 80s and 90s. We miss the way kids leave home in the morning on their […]

When I was 23, I worked for a newspaper. Almost every day, my boss noted that she had to leave at a certain hour to […]

It may seem convenient to let your sleeping baby continue to doze in the car seat after you reach your destination, but it could put […]

I’ve always been a big book nerd, so it was definitely part of my parenting dreams that my kids were as obsessed with books as […]

The first time my 6 year old daughter tried to make a fort out of blankets, she had the joyful ambitions of a child. Unfortunately, […]

The first time my daughter vomited, I screamed in horror, and then she cried. She was two years old and contracted a stomach ailment in […]

The hardest parenting lesson I had to learn was to stop telling children what to do. It was much easier for me to give orders […]

Do you have a child who does not understand which shoe goes on which foot? Do you have a sticker? Then try this classic parenting […]

Shima and Jenny live in Tokyo with their two young daughters, Velvet Jean and Birdie Moon. Shima was born and raised in Japan, while Jenny […]

I grew up thinking that I was shy. It was easy to do because whenever I found myself in a situation where I was uncomfortable […]

If you’re looking for simple science experiments and creative projects for your child, you can’t go wrong with anything from Sergei Urban, aka TheDadLab . […]

There is a new app called YOLO that is very popular among teenagers. Just a week after its release, it became the most downloaded iPhone […]

When you become a parent, you get a lot of parenting advice. Some of this is outdated (“Mom, I know you let me sleep in […]

If you still don’t know what to give your mom / wife / partner / best friend for Mother’s Day, how about helping a young […]

Childhood is a time of conflicting goals: on the one hand, these young children want to see, do and climb; on the other hand, parents […]

Visualization can be a powerful mental exercise in helping you define what you want, sense it, and believe that you can accomplish it. There are […]