Onsite Daycare: How One Nonprofit Is Making It Work
For working mothers employed by Kars4Kids, a nonprofit headquartered in Lakewood, New Jersey, onsite daycare is provided.
Are Stereotyped Gender Roles Heaping On Extra Stress? Probably.
In a lot of modern families where both parents work, the main responsibility of caring for the children and the home still seems to fall on the mother.
Resilience: Ordinary Magic For The Mind
The ability to bounce back from life’s challenges is called resilience. Resilience is the antidote to life’s big punches.
Boys Behaving Badly: Why We Need to Stand up to School-Age Misogyny
When we look at the big men who’ve assaulted women, we need to talk about the boys they were, and the people who ignored or indulged them.
Debunking 5 Head Scratching Lice Myths
The stigma of lice makes it hard to get to the truth of the matter. Many (untrue) myths remain.
How to Help Your Kid Discover a Dinosaur
What can non-zookeeper, non-geologist, non-hiking parents do to help their kids make scientific breakthroughs?
Beyond Books: Five Other Things Libraries Are Lending
While literacy remains an important focus of public libraries, there’s an effort by librarians to rebrand and expand their institutions.
Teaching Your Kid to Write in the Age of Autocorrect
When we were kids, as soon as we could read and write well enough to string together a sentence, we got a journal.
Autism and Things: A Love Story
He always has things around him, this small boy of mine. The doctor told me it was a common aspect of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Kids Aren't Necessarily Shy Because They're Quiet
Don’t diminish our quiet children and label them as shy. Don’t assume they aren’t capable of being loud. Some children just don’t want to be.
Families Struggling With Addiction – Here’s How to Help the Kids You Love
This article is the third in a 12-part series about the U.S. addiction crisis. In the interest of compassionate conversation and eliminating stigma, we’ve chosen language that’s cultivated by the R...
Proven Techniques to Help Your Kid Get Control of Anger
By teaching our children to recognize and deal with their anger, we may be able to prevent its negative impacts before they happen.
Study Finds Babies Have Greater Emotional Intelligence Than Thought
The ability of babies to both understand emotional subtleties and link positive emotions to a source is much more advanced than thought.
6 Aspects of Motherhood That Surprise Nannies
What if you could do a parenting internship before becoming an actual parent? Such an “internship” exists. It’s called working as a nanny.
Kid Made Recipe: Pumpkin Pecan Pancakes
Like a delicious cross between a pumpkin and pecan pie, with bonus caramel sauce! Grab a kid helper and wow your fam this Saturday with tasty pancakes!
How to Support Your Kids' Reading Skills Based on Their Current Reading Level
At some point your child's reading level will be assessed. Here are some follow-up actions to help make this information meaningful.
Anxiety Disorders in ASD Kids and Therapies That Work
Tackling anxiety in ASD children is no easy feat and these issues can show themselves in various ways.
Books That Teachers Read to Their Own Kids
Teachers have a knack for knowing how to connect with kids, and they're skilled at drawing out kids to talk about the characters and ideas in a story.
6 Ways Parents Can Stop Spreading Disease at the Pediatrician
AAP guidelines have valuable lessons for parents about reducing the spread of illness at pediatric offices, not just for their own kids but all patients.
Homework Battles: Rethinking After-School Time and the Purpose of Homework
Studies on homework are revolutionizing the ideas of after-school time. Not all homework is equal.
4 Etiquette Tips for When It's Okay to Let Your Boys Pee Outside
I’m okay with letting my boys pee outside provided there's no nearby bathroom, we’re relatively far from civilization, and we’re discreet. However...
Truancy or School Refusal: Helping Anxious Kids
While truant children are bored with school, or angry about having to go, school refusal is caused by something different: fear.
Language Development: Forget the "50 by 2" Milestone. Shoot for 3,000 by 3.
Once parents have tallied the first 50 words, they seem less concerned about how their children's vocabulary grows. Here's what comes next.
What Star Wars Taught Me About the Growth Mindset
A growth mindset believes that YOU control your destiny, and what you do, or don’t learn.