Category: Parenting

The most effective tool for hysteria? No, it’s not YouTube Kids for a distraction, or ice cream as an offer of bribery, or a shower […]

You may have bought a baby shower gift from the online registry. Or maybe you google “ovulation calculator”. Or maybe a group of your friends […]

In the films, immediately after giving birth, a nurse puts a primordial newborn in her arms. In real life, however, babies usually look more like […]

When you have babies and young children, people give you so many tips – breastfeeding, bottle feeding, sleeping together, using an infant straitjacket, getting an […]

The book Non-Verbal Advantage states that in the early days of human existence, children who were able to maintain eye contact and therefore grab people’s […]

Letters roll in and celebrations are blowing up the Internet . For high school students awaiting a response from the colleges they applied to, this […]

We ran a contest on the Offspring Facebook group (yes, we have a Facebook group – have you joined us yet?), Asking participants to share […]

It’s now college letter season, so if you have a kid in high school, you know that students across the country are eagerly waiting to […]

Once when I was a kid, I was in a food court in a mall and mime sculpted all the kids out of balloons. He […]

Childhood technology has trapped parents in a constant state of uncertainty: new things appear faster than we can determine their impact on young brains. Hundreds […]

If you live in cap pop culture, your child will be introduced to Star Wars. George Lucas’ space opera has so thoroughly and effectively infiltrated […]

We had my son’s fourth birthday party the day the Patriots beat the Falcon in the Super Bowl. As you know, the bad guys won […]

There are many books and articles on how to talk to your child. Most of them offer good advice: don’t do everything about yourself (“Do […]

This is what media experts are now telling parents: if your child is going to watch TV, you should mostly watch it with them. The […]

Supporting families is good for employees and business . Parents or parents-to- be want and need to work for companies that understand this, but benefits […]

New parenting comes with an endless list of things you could never have imagined to trigger panic. Dear . Cat litter box . Soft bed […]

I remember the moment my mom brought home our first chick, Victoria, better than most of my birthdays. It was a warm spring day, and […]

Some people call it “the good kids high.” Children and adolescents play the choking game — an activity in which they choke themselves or their […]

There was no shortage of children’s shows in the original Netflix series lineup – Llama Llama, The Magic School Bus Rides Again, and Trolls: The […]

This is similar to a parenting rite: it is impossible to cut a child’s nails for the first time. When my daughter was only a […]

Children often fall and are severely injured. This is a feature, not a bug. You have to crawl before you can walk, you have to […]

It’s hard to say exactly why kids with autism are some of the greatest adherents of Minecraft, a computer game in which you build endless […]

An old joke says that there is only one way to get rid of the glitter: move houses. I am one of that rare breed […]

We hate to interrupt your mourning for the passing of Toys R Us and are deeply concerned if Jeffrey will ever be able to get […]

With young children, bedtime routines usually include an accurate checklist: Put on your pajamas, brush your teeth, read stories, ask for water, pack up, realize […]

Getting kids to brush their teeth willingly is a heroic task. Lord, why would they do it again if they did it just yesterday ? […]

One afternoon, when my daughter was two years old, I picked her up from kindergarten and her teacher couldn’t wait to tell me the news. […]

Of course, you can advise your child to bathe regularly, never be late, eat a balanced diet, thank the customer service staff and give him […]

As parents, you often hear about the greatest injustices in life: “While I was drawing, his elbow moved my hand, so now my princess has […]

As a parent, you could use some support – smart ideas, time-saving gimmicks, and totally unbiased support from other mums and dads who are around […]

I didn’t want to stop. I read to my daughter all her life, even before she became a person whom I could hold in my […]

When I was a kid in a small West Virginia town, there weren’t many options for after-school or weekend entertainment: I could walk to a […]

I learned to play the piano the old-fashioned way – my mother would drag me to weekly lessons taught by an elderly woman next door […]

PlayStation 4 just released a firmware update (5.50) that brought a ton of great features like comprehensive parental controls . Here’s how you can set […]

Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert, advice columnist, and New York Times bestselling author of My Boyfriend Is Boiling In My Purse … And Other […]

We hope you have never had a serious car accident with your children. But being prepared is good, and this advice from parents can help […]

While you can pass on some statistics to a girl about why she should consider a career in STEM, it is far more encouraging to […]

I recently attended a kindergarten orientation meeting where, to my relief, the principal said that there are only two things that parents need to do […]

School-age children have a period of gastrointestinal chaos, and this period lasts every weekday from 3 pm to 6 pm. At about 3 pm, when […]

New parents often hear advice: you need to talk to your baby! A lot ! The SuperBaby book states that 30,000 words a day is […]