Parenting and Advice
Pre-K
Growing Reader
13 Legitimately Funny Books To Read Aloud With Your Kids
Sure, there are plenty of kids' books that have mastered the art of the cute, but how many have really made you laugh? These kids' books know how to bring the funny.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
How to Promote Healthy Social and Emotional Skills During the Pandemic
There are steps caregivers can take at home to help kids through this difficult time. Try out these ideas to promote social and emotional health in your home.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
How to Help Teens Choose the Right College
The authors of The College Conversation recommend parents, caregivers, and students align the qualities of a prospective college or university with what matters most to them as individuals — providing a rubric and helpful conversation starters.
Tips & Advice
6 Recommendations to Help First-Time Parents Thrive
Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, author of The Bottom Line for Baby, offers first-time parents tips on what to prioritize so they can relax a little and focus on what matters most: establishing and strengthening the relationship with their child.
Tips & Advice
7 Tips to Help Your Child Manage Their Anger
Have you ever wondered how you should respond to your child’s angry feelings and behaviors? Here are seven practical tips that you can use to help your child manage their anger.
Tips & Advice
How to Get Kids Into a Learning Mindset at Home
This fall, it may help to think of distance learning as the epitome of growth mindset in action. Let’s set our students up for learning success with a growth mindset perspective, good organization, plenty of technology practice, and, most of all, empathy.
Tips & Advice
Tips on Balancing Virtual Learning and Work for Parents
Julie Bogart, author of The Brave Learner, offers parents advice on how to balance working from home and virtual learning — based on her experience homeschooling her five children for 17 years.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Four Developmental Signs Your Child Is Ready for Potty Training
Dr. Jazmine McCoy offers first-time parents tips on how to tell when a child is ready for potty training.
Growing Reader
Kid-Approved Books for Struggling Second and Third Grade Readers
These tips, along with kid-approved book recommendations, will help parents and educators who have a reluctant second or third grade reader on their hands.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
More Than Your Shell: On Helping Kids Embrace Inner Beauty
The author of The Box Turtle examines the difficulties social media poses when it comes to getting kids to embrace their inner beauty and more.
Teen
Body Positivity Starts With Parents
Laura Zimmermann, author of the YA novel My Eyes Are Up Here, discusses how being a body positivity champion for your kids starts with applying that positivity to yourself.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
18 Books for Kids About the Immigrant Experience in America
From picture books to YA nonfiction, these books inspire readers to think deeper about our fellow Americans, their stories, and their experiences.
