Category: Parenting

Don’t ask your child what happened that day at school. Just don’t. Look, I understand: you want to know how your child’s day went. Whether […]

A study published this week came as no surprise to any of us: Teen screen addicts are unhappy . Lead author is Jean M. Twenge, […]

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

So you’ve come up with the perfect name for your newborn. Great. It’s time to test it. Here are 12 tests to make sure you […]

Getting kids out the door in the morning can be done in one of two ways: they wake up early and then mess around forcing […]

In the first days of birth of new parents, going to the doctor to check the baby can seem like a grand event. Aside from […]

I have a huge stack of parenting books on my desk. Some of them tell me that I am great at raising my child (these […]

If it is difficult for a child to assimilate school material, it is difficult to know how to help him. Parents try to give advice […]

“I’m not just a nerd,” says 13-year-old Thea with glasses, speaking on stage into a microphone. “I am a geek too.” The audience laughs. She […]

Nintendo’s upcoming Labo series is new in many ways: DIY cardboard boxes are filled with accessories such as fishing rods, a piano and even a […]

If you have kids who love LEGO, you probably screamed in pain as you stepped on LEGO bricks. These things are found everywhere. Here’s a […]

In a study published last month by researchers at the University of Liege in Belgium, ageism can be seen in children as young as 3 […]

When I was 11, I wanted to be a veterinarian. Playing with the animals all day seemed like fun. Around this time, Billy Joel released […]

My 5 year old daughter loves deliberate tickling. She pulls herself together and says: “Go!” I tickled her chin and she laughed for about eight […]

The day after my second child was born, a pediatrician came up to us and offered to give him one of the vaccinations. “Will it […]

Last year, after a lot of confusion on the Internet, it was confirmed that Scar and Mufasa from The Lion King are indeed brothers . […]

Tech companies are striving to make life easier for moms and dads, as evidenced by numerous innovations at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show . Here […]

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

On her Vogue cover, Serena Williams shared how she nearly died after giving birth to her daughter Alexis, Olympia Ohanian Jr. The day after the […]

Eating disorder crises are more frequent on Mondays. Substance abuse is at its worst at five in the morning. Keep in mind that if someone […]

One would like to think that decades of social progress would erase racial segregation in education, but a 2013 study by the Economic Policy Institute […]

In growing up, the herd guides you through the milestones. When you are young, everyone you know graduates from college, gets their first job, gets […]

Being a destroyer is not easy. With any new trail you create, you are bound to face backlash. But now is 2018 and I feel […]

There are many numbers to keep in mind when raising a child: height and weight. How many ounces of milk do they drink first, then […]

Here’s a simple trick to help your child get used to swimming underwater in a pool: Blow in his face before you dip him. They […]

A typical American classroom lesson might look something like this: “What is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?” the teacher asks. Children raise […]

There was a time when my coffee table was my most expensive piece of furniture. Until the days of the shelves, it served as the […]

The traditional method of teaching kids to ride a bike is to wait until they have mastered the art of locomotion with learning wheels, and […]

“Ask a Cleaner for Parents,” our cleanup column on parenting and all the hassle it brings, deals with everything from removing greasy stains from sticky […]

Looking through the handbook section on illnesses in my daughter’s preschool orientation, the principal told the parents, “If we made every child with a runny […]

For kids, snowy days are the best days. There is no school! And white fluffy things to frolic in! And no school! However, for working […]

There seems to be a new study being published almost every week that contradicts previous research on how much screen time kids should – and […]

Kids have a lot to fight about – the last big dinosaur nugget to taller and become Juniper’s Player of the Week. In America, parents […]

When my daughter was about one and a half years old, I found myself on a mad quest. “What is our family manifesto?” – I […]

I always think about ways to keep track of my toddler’s screen time – not necessarily in terms of quantity, but in terms of quality. […]

We tested the plastic butt tube . We have figured out how to avoid the jet of urine when changing a diaper . Found out […]

Admit that you foresaw this. Santa gave your child an intricate 270-piece enchanted wooden cottage filled with families of tiny forest critters, and now the […]

When Cracker Jack decided to replace his “prize” with a QR code , it was ominous. Rather than finding a tiny baseball card or, in […]

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

The things kids watch can be mind numbingly pointless – we’ll get it, Dora’s card, YOU MAP. Rion Nakaya, director of design and video producer, […]