Parenting and Advice
Tips & Advice
How 10 Minutes a Day Can Tame the Entitlement Trend
Parenting expert Amy McCready shares tips to improve quality time with your kids and keep the “me, me, me” epidemic at bay.
Tips & Advice
What Do You Do When Your Book-Loving Kid Asks “Is Magic Real?”
Ever since my daughter was old enough to ask about the magical things that happened in her favorite books, I’d been dodging the big question underlying all her queries — namely, “Is magic real?” Until now.
Teen
Going Beyond ‘I Don’t Know’: 3 Tips for Having Honest Conversations with Your Teenager
"Internet-famous" celebrity, author, and teen go-to Jeffrey Marsh has some advice for parents who are having trouble connecting with their kids.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
10 Books for Budding Entrepreneurs and Can-Do Kids
Books about entrepreneurs can instill inspiring lessons about the hard work, creativity, and determination it takes to translate a vision into a reality.
Tips & Advice
How Reading Comics and Sci-Fi Books Can Bring You Closer to Your Kids
Sharing impossible fictions with our kids moves us out of the realm of explaining and into the realm of wondering. In doing so, it puts us closer to them.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
You Deserve a Vacation, Too: What to Do If Your Kid Is a Terrible Traveler
It is actually possible to take a fantastic family trip — and if you are lucky enough to have the time and the resources to travel with your kid, you totally should. However, you should read this first.
Tips & Advice
Lose the To-Do List – and 4 Other Ways to Get the Most Out of Summer
If we let it, summer can easily pass us by in a whirlwind. Here are five ideas to help you make the most of summertime with your family.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
How I Learned to Curb My Parental Expectations and Love the Boy I Got
Here are five common expectations about raising children that I frequently heard from parents, things many of us think we want for our kids, and the realities of each.
Grown-Up Reads
5 Things I Never Expected to Love About Being a Dad
I always imagined that I would have a son — but, instead of sons, I had three daughters. And from the time they came into the world, bright pink and bawling, I never looked back, not even for a moment.
Tips & Advice
All Work and No Play? Easy Ways to Add More Fun to the Everyday
It turns out fun is not folly — it’s actually the rich stuff that holds us all together. As the old saying goes: Families who play together, stay together.
Grown-Up Reads
Arianna Huffington on Her Romance with Words and Restful Nights
We chatted with Arianna Huffington, author of The Sleep Revolution, about sleep for parents, bedtime reading, her lifelong love of words, and more.
Tween
4 Mistakes I Made Trying to Raise a Middle School Reader
When my son entered middle school, I made some mistakes in my efforts to ensure he continued to read for fun. Now, my family is working together to correct them.
