Parenting and Advice
Tips & Advice
How Books Can Help With Bedtime Challenges
From too much screen time to your child not being tired enough to sleep, there are endless obstacles when it comes to getting your little ones to bed on time. Luckily, books can help!
Tips & Advice
Bedtime Routines From the Brightly Community
Thanks to our wonderful community, we’ve rounded up a few different ways our readers prepare their little ones for bed!
Tips & Advice
How to Put the Kids to Bed and Enjoy Your Evening
Bedtime can be one of the toughest times of the day — but it is also one of the most important times for children. Here are three tips for making bedtime a little easier, so you can enjoy some much deserved "me time."
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Books To Help Start Conversations Around Bodily Autonomy and Consent
These picture books are a perfect jumping-off point for discussions about bodies, personal space, and tricky situations and help our kids feel empowered to advocate for themselves and talk to us about these topics.
Tips & Advice
Raising Responsible Boys: 8 Books To Help Along the Way
Nowadays, our goal as parents is to raise kind and caring kids who grow up into kind and caring adults. The way we parent boys needs to evolve in ways that foster their growth in the right direction.
Tips & Advice
Books on Autism That Inform, Advise, and Empower
These books on autism show how diagnosis and treatment have progressed, how advocacy helps, and what may lie ahead for ASD children and adults.
Tips & Advice
Adam Gidwitz on the Magic of Telling Stories to Your Child
After Adam Gidwitz's daughter had a frightful encounter with a fire alarm, he began to tell her stories — true stories about her experience. Over many months of telling that story, some magical things started to happen.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
4 Tips to Help Blended Families Connect
Blending a family doesn’t happen overnight. It's our job as parents to cut up the process into chewable moments to nurture a sense of safety that can ripen into feelings of family. Here are four tips to help blended families connect.
Tips & Advice
7 Lessons I Learned from Ali Wong’s Dear Girls
When I cracked the spine of Ali Wong's book, "Dear Girls" — essays written as letters to her two young daughters — I expected to laugh. And I did. I did not expect to learn much about being a mom. But I did anyway.
Tween
10 Myths About Middle School-Aged Kids
Judith Warner, author of And Then They Stopped Talking to Me, confronts 10 things people believe to be true about middle school with expert advice and a more realistic approach to this difficult time of adolescence.
Tips & Advice
The Power of Connection for Children With ADHD
Dr. Edward M. Hallowell and Dr. John J. Ratey offer advice on how children and adults alike can thrive with ADHD in their new book.
Tween
Five Ways Families Can Cope With Setbacks
Keir Graff, author of The Tiny Mansion, provides tips families can use when faced with setbacks, which is something many families are currently experiencing during this global pandemic.
