How Did I Become That Anxious Dad?
It’s normal to worry about your children’s safety, but you also need trust in their growing self-preservation instincts. Here are some tips for anxious dads.
How Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Helped Me Potty Train My Kids
The goal of potty training seems insurmountable, until you introduce a little bribery. In one family, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Little People" did the trick.
The 10 Worst Things About Being Pregnant in the Summer
It's never easy being super pregnant. Add sky high temps and enough humidity make you wonder if you're living inside a horse's mouth and it gets worse.
Worried Those Early Extracurriculars Are a Waste of Money? Maybe Not.
New research shows extracurriculars are promising for kids and their development in numerous ways, even during early childhood. Here's what makes a difference.
How to Use Your Philosophy on Life to Pick Swim Lessons
Maybe there's something to using your philosophical approach to life as a means to teach swimming. These five types of lessons might follow your groove.
Dining Out with Baby: An Eight-Step Survival Guide
Anyone who has ever had a baby (I'm guessing that's you!) knows that when you take the little tyke to dinner, it's a race against the clock. Here are tips.
5 Tips for Getting Your Kids to Bed in the Heyday of Summer
Summer is one long endless day – and it is exhausting. But that doesn't always mean your kids want to go to bed. Here's how to get some essential sleep.
Easy Ways to Build Water Confidence With Your Child
If your child is water-shy, try these tips for boosting their confidence and maximizing productive lesson time. And yes, there's plenty you can do at home.
3 Simple Ways Water Can Calm Your Children
As one of our most important natural resources, water provides so many benefits including improving our health and happiness.
10 Creative Ways to Beat Summer Boredom
There's plenty of summer left to get creative with your kids. Go learn, create, and have fun! Here are ways to conquer that unpleasant feeling of boredom.
5 Tips to Teach Kids the Subtle Art of Graciousness
In an effort to improve both manners and self-esteem, here are five easy tips to practice when accepting a compliment. You'll help raise a gracious kid.
Why Kids Watch the Strangest Things on YouTube
Why do kids choose such strange videos on YouTube, like unboxing videos, movies of people playing Minecraft, or clips of YouTube celebrities shopping?
5 Present-Day Parenting Styles Inadvertently Favored in the 1970s
Back then, they didn't have fancy names for the different approaches to parenting. Only in the information age do we need to put a label on it.
Science Confirms You Are a Different Person After Giving Birth
You likely knew it already, but once you've carried a person in your body for 9 entire months, you come out the other side a different person.
Sibling play: Games for Toddlers and Preschoolers to Enjoy Together
Playing together is a powerful way for siblings to bond. But for kids at different growth stages, it isn’t always easy to find activities everyone enjoys.
9 Things You Should Never Say to Same-Sex Parents
Culturally reinforced naiveté is understandable coming from a small child. But there's no great excuse when it comes from adults.
A Trip to Canada’s National Parks May Be Just the Vacay You Need This Summer
This summer, find out for yourself why Bono, frontman for U2, said “I believe the world needs more Canada.” Here are incredible places to see with your family.
In Difficult Times, A Better Response Than "I Can’t Imagine"
Even if we don’t want to imagine what someone else is going through, we can at least try to ease their passage.
4 Outdoor Excursions to Beat the Summer Heat
The air conditioning is running and the kids are begging for more screen time. But we're going outside. Here are four ideas for when it's scorching outside.
The LGBTQ Community Needs You to Put Down Your Fear
Where there's fear, it's impossible for love and acceptance to thrive. Let me tell you about people like me. Let me tell you a little about what it means to be a member of the LGBTQ community.
The Real Reason You Should Garden With Your Kids
You can garden with your kids without leaving the house or changing out of your pajamas. Best of all, it will save you at least one trip to the grocery store.
10 Ways to Ensure Your Next Family Road Trip is a Success
Family road trips don't have to be a National Lampoon-esque disaster. Especially if you keep these tips in mind.
Why "Work Life Balance" Is Too Simplistic for Modern Dads
There's been a lot of change for dads in a short period of time. Today they work as many hours as previous generations, but do three times the childcare and twice the housework as dads a generation...
How to Dress for Those Weird Early Pregnancy Weeks
For that period of time when your pants are held together with a strategically looped hair tie.