Parenting and Advice
Pre-K
Growing Reader
How to Start Reading Chapter Books With Your Preschooler or Kindergartner
Reading a chapter book is really different from reading a picture book. Here are a few helpful tips for developing the skills to engage with a longer book.
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
Books To Help Kids Build a Positive Body Image
Kids are exposed to unrealistic portrayals of the human body early and often — here are some books that present kids and parents with positive counter messages.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
How to Talk to Kids About Race: Books and Resources That Can Help
Sharing stories can be a powerful tool for talking about the complex realities of race, particularly in trying times. Here are a few resources and books to help foster conversation, empathy, and understanding with the young people in your lives.
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
What To Do If Your Child Is Interested in Books With Adult Themes
What can you do when kids get curious about books that seem too mature or that don’t jibe with your values? We asked some parents and experts for advice.
Baby & Toddler
5 Gorgeous Quotes About Parenthood from Bunny Roo, I Love You
Each of these gorgeous illustrations from Bunny Roo, I Love You will make you think of your babies, whether they’re a few months old or now have babies of their own.
Baby & Toddler
Easy Activities That Help Babies Grow Up Smart
Stephen Camarata, Ph.D. shares some simple, fun activities that can help parents raise smarter, happier, and healthier babies.
Tween
Teen
Why Txtng Is OK for Kids ☺
You’ve likely heard that texting is destroying our children’s ability to communicate. But what if texting is enhancing the language rather than destroying it?
Pre-K
Growing Reader
How to Help Ease Your Child's First Day of School Jitters
Author Natasha Wing shares tips to help kids open up about their feelings about starting school for the first time or returning to a new grade.
Grown-Up Reads
Seize the (Small) Moment: Author Laura Vanderkam Explores How Working Women Can Make Time for the Things That Matter
Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, reveals how successful women really spend their time, and shares some terrific time-management tricks.
Tips & Advice
How to Get Back on the Reading Wagon
If you've fallen off the reading wagon, remember that it’s never too late to hop right back on. Here are five ways my family got back on track.
Just For Fun
Lies I’ve Told My Kid While Reading
Here are just a few of the lies I’ve told my beautiful, trusting daughter while we were reading together. (Don’t judge me.)
Tips & Advice
Putting My Monkey to Bed: The Sleep Time Struggles and Successes That Inspired My Latest Story
Author Gennifer Choldenko's son loved playing, crawling, building, and climbing; what he didn’t love was sleeping.
