Parenting and Advice
Just For Fun
8 Children’s Book Authors Share Their Go-To Parenting Mantras
We all have our favorite parenting phrases. For fun, we asked these creative, word-loving folks to share their most reliable parenting refrains.
Tween
In the Business of Getting Along: 4 Simple Tips for Surviving Your Kids’ Tween Years
Amy Cooper Hakim, Ph.D., an industrial-organizational psychology practitioner, helps people at work to get along. When her kids started acting up, she adapted some workplace tactics to ensure that her family could get along better too.
Tween
Teen
Raising Confident Tweens and Teens: Expert Tips To Help Your Kid Step Outside Their Comfort Zone
How can we thoughtfully nudge our children outside their comfort zones so they can build that confidence and resilience we want for them? Here are some tips that might help.
Grown-Up Reads
What to Read Now: Two Compelling Novels and a Go-To Parenting Book
Looking for advice? An escape? A bit of magic? Here are three fantastic books to read right now.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
Win at Losing: How to Help Kids See Success in Their Failures
Author Sam Weinman explains that it's challenging, but crucial, to show children that failure and loss are often experiences we need to grow and learn.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
Beyond the Naughty and Nice List: Keeping Kids on Their Best Behavior At the Holidays and All Year Round
Authors John and Karen Miller want to help moms and dads parent through the holidays and forever more not with threats, gimmicks, and manipulative tricks, but by teaching kids to take accountability for their behavior. Here are their tips.
Tips & Advice
5 Small But Important Life Lessons from Together Is Better to Share with Your Kids
Simon Sinek's new picture book, Together Is Better, may be written for adults, but it contains valuable life lessons that make it a great read-aloud for young kids.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
Why Taking Time for Yourself Is Important for You and Your Kids — And How to Do It Guilt-Free
Dr. Jane Scott, with Stephanie Land, explains some of the benefits of taking time away from your kid — for work, fun, and everything in between — and shares some tips for easing your parental guilt when you do.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
How Creating a Family Code of Conduct Can Help Parents Better Communicate with Their Sons
Author and educator Tim Hawkes discusses how developing a collectively agreed upon code of conduct can help family members connect and communicate.
Grown-Up Reads
3 New Buzzworthy Books About Fighting for Love, Equality, and Happiness at Home
At this busy time of year I’ve done the work for you, selecting three new grown-up reads that I think will be worth your time … even when you can only spare a few minutes!
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
Opting for Originality: Why Parents Shouldn't Always Be the Go-to Role Models for Their Children
Adam Grant, author of Originals, explains why fictional characters can sometimes serve as better mentors to kids than parents.
Tips & Advice
The Tough But Important Task of Raising Free-Range Readers
My first maternal instinct is often to shield, to do what I can to help my child avoid discomfort. But from the beginning, I was eager to share stories with my daughter that brought both smiles and tears.
