How to Talk to Your Kids About ISIS - The Daily Beast
"While I certainly have no grand, sure-shot sure way to prevent the next copycat from cooking up a plot in his bedroom orpacking her bags for the Turkish-Syrian border, the argument for exposing ki...
How to Talk to Your Kids About Scary News Events | TIME
"It can be scarier not to talk about them. via How to Talk to Your Kids About Scary News Events | TIME.
On the Road Again? Pack These Foods.
Skip the fast food and unhealthy roadside fare on your next family road trip and bring these snacks instead.
Besides Being Absolutely Disgusting, Parenthood is Beautiful
You know where I haven't nursed a baby? In a field of daisies while a gentle breeze blew through my hair. Motherhood can be downright gross.
What's Better Than the Star Wars VII Trailer? Babies Watching the Star Wars VII Trailer | Adweek
What's Better Than the Star Wars VII Trailer? Babies Watching the Star Wars VII Trailer | Adweek.
Parent educator Vicki Hoefle: Don't get trapped in the perfect parenting myth
The thing I want parents to understand is this: you are doing the best you can with the information you have. There's no room for judgement or criticism. You have made the best use of the informati...
My aha moment as a mother came when I realized that parenting wasnt about what happened when my kids were between the ages of 0 and 18 - it was about what happened for my kids between the ages o...
Crafting is one of the joys of parenting. This is something the internet tells us.
Prepare to get inspired by the charming and sometimes even stunningly beautiful DIY craft projects we created for this post.
11 ways allowance helps your kid understand money
There’s little argument at this point that handling money as a child will prepare you for handling money as a young adult and eventually, as an adult. Great. But what exactly (as in literally) do t...
15 tax deductions parents really deserve
Raising kids is super expensive. But society depends on it, so the government gives parents a limited range of tax deductions. However, there are SO MANY MORE deductions we parents should be able ...
The fail-safe dinner solution your whole family will love
Totally customizable, the Rice Bowl is a fail-safe dinner solution that will please the pickiest of eaters.
14 Star Wars GIFs That Explain What It's Like to Be a Parent
The Star Wars films are among the most popular, enduring family movies of all time. (Despite the super awkward family dynamics they portray.) Both kids and grownups love them. To celebrate the annu...
Yes, Your Time as a Parent Does Make a Difference - NYTimes.com
The claim that parenting time doesn’t matter is the bottom line of a single recent study by a team of sociologists who suggest that child outcomes are barely correlated with the time that parents s...
Laughing With Your Kids Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Them
A sense of humor takes years to develop. Babies burble and laugh at peekaboo, toddlers love pratfalls, and potty humor is the pinnacle of wit through elementary school. Understanding different type...
Making time for kids? Study says quality trumps quantity. - The Washington Post
“I could literally show you 20 charts, and 19 of them would show no relationship between the amount of parents’ time and children’s outcomes. .?.?. Nada. Zippo,” said Melissa Milkie, a sociologist ...
50 observations from a month of paternity leave
Brennan Carney is a teacher and Head Varsity Football Coach at Burlington High School. He and his wife Keri (also a teacher and coach) had their first son, Cooper on 12/29/2012. During his paternit...
Parents are unconsciously setting their kids up to be materialists with fragile egos via Quartz
On Quartz, Sonali Kohli reports that taking things away from kids when they do something bad led them to be more insecure as adults, and that insecurity made them associate material things with suc...
Author and sociologist Dalton Conley: You can't recreate the feral childhood
Dalton Conley is a professor and sociologist at New York University and author of several books, including his most recent, “Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Science of Raising ...
Ask Angela: Should we have another kid?
"Ask Angela" is a bimonthly relationship advice column for parents. Submit your question here with the subject "Ask Angela." Dear Angela - My husband and I are so back and forth on the idea of h...
Parental Leave Can’t Just Be for Mothers - HBR
Vodafone received a ton of attention (including from us) for its new 16-weeks paid maternity leave policy in the US. After all, the US joins Lesotho, Swaziland, and Papua New Guinea as the only nat...
Q&A: Raising Kids Who Want To Read : NPR Ed : NPR
Author and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, Daniel Willingham, on raising kids who want to read: "For me it's a family value. It's something that I love, something that I find...
This is why your parenting style matters
There's loads of talk today about parenting styles, parenting techniques and parenting preferences. From Velcro and Helicopter to CTFD parenting, there's a whole lot of advice smathering cyberspace...
Introducing Vicki Hoefle on Parent.co!
I’m happy to introduce Vicki Hoefleto Parent Co. readers. Actually, many of you might already know her; she's helped many thousands of families create happier homes through her writing, classes and...
What you need to know about coaching your kids Part 2
Practical advice from dad coach Justin Martin on coaching your children. I started coaching my kids three years ago. One son is seven, and the other will be five next year (maybe I'll get the oppor...