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The Gift of No Mirrors: On Camping With My Daughters

Looking in the mirror, we search for flaws. Seek out our beauty and often, in our own minds come up short. Nature offers a welcome reprieve.

How Tracking When My Baby Ate Made Me a Better Mom

It may sound a little neurotic, but if a baby tracking app makes life as a new parent easier, I'm going all in.

Parents in the US Struggling to Find Happiness Compared to Others

For years, social scientists have known that nonparents are happier than parents. Study after study has confirmed the troubling findingthat having kids makes you less happy than your child-free pe...

Why People Need More Fruit and Vegtables

University of Warwick research indicates that eating more fruit and vegetables can substantially increase people's later happiness levels. The researchers concluded that people who changed from alm...

What Our Kids Play with-NEEDED New Focus on Regulatory Groups

In a new report, dozens of scientists, health practitioners and children's health advocates are calling for renewed attention to the growing evidence that many common and widely available chemicals...

Racism is in the Details

Two mothers reflect on the implications of the length of their son's hair. For one, it's a preference; for the other it could mean life or death

7 Cooking Essentials For Every College Student

Here are basic kitchen skills your teen should master before summer is over. When our oldest child left for college last fall, I knew I would miss him terribly...but I wasn’t sure what might promp...

Attention Issues in Childhood can Have Lasting Effects

By fifth grade, children with early attention difficulties had lower grades and reading achievement scores than their peers. As fifth-graders, children with early attention problems experienced ave...

Teach Delayed Gratification to Your Kids

The trick to raising smart (and successful) kids is to start developing their thought processes early. ...hundreds of children were tested... ...They could either eat the marshmallow while the re...

9 Concerns You Need to Share With Your Child’s Doctor

While there is a wide range of normal development, early detection of sensory, speech, and physical issues can greatly improve outcomes.

Apparently Fertility Treatment Works for Most Women

Nearly three-quarters of women undergoing fertility treatment will give birth within five years of starting the process, research has revealed. The study followed almost 20,000 Danish women underg...

Who is the Most Awesome Runner Ever? This Guy!

Noah Droddy’s first appearance on national TV is like one long photo bomb. He pops up at the starting line of Hayward Field, out of focus on NBC’s live broadcast of the men’s 10,000-meter final, h...

Ways Parents can Help Underage Kids Resist Alchohol

To discourage teenage alcohol use, parents can engage their kids in discussion, set some rules and let their children know they care. The study also found that how often parents drank was predicti...

Imagine a World Without Work, What Would it Look Like?

Fears of civilization-wide idleness are based too much on the downsides of being unemployed in a society premised on the concept of employment. People have speculated for centuries about a future ...

5 Things Parents are Told to Worry About (But I Don't)

It's possible that the issues parents are told to freak out about aren't even the ones that make a real difference in the long run.

All the Monsters My Kids Don't Know

We know we shouldn't allow the harsh judgments of strangers to get under our skin, but sometimes it's hard to let them go.

Parents May Pass on Chronic Pain to Children

Can an increased risk of chronic pain be transmitted from parents to children? Several factors may contribute, including genetics, effects on early development, social learning, and more according...

Ikea Issues Recall on Some Kids Furniture

Ikea has issued a recall for at least 29 million chests and dressers that can easily tip over onto children, injuring or killing them. The furniture giant said Monday that after the three deaths o...

You Must Understand Resilience is A Process Not A Thing

...Hawaiian myths explain the weird natural features including the tiny, tear-shaped lava rocks that lie all around on the volcano’s sides, named “Pele’s tears” after the Hawaiian fire goddess. The...

Read Aloud to Your Kids EVERYDAY! Here is Why

Troubling New Study on Reading Aloud | BookSpring ...the report shows that fewer than half (46%) of parents read aloud to their children every day, and only 34% do so for at least 15 minutes. “We...

5 Things a Working Parent Can Do to Cultivate Summer Joy

Summer can be total bliss. On the other hand, as a working parent who doesn't get to slow down simply because the temp rises, it can feel a little daunting.

College a Challenge for Students With Kids

Far too many student-parents drop out, cutting them off from good jobs. There are 4.8 million undergraduates raising children — one-fourth of all postsecondary students. But more than half of thes...

More Trees can Mean less Aggressive Kids

Adolescents in urban communities may have less aggressive behaviors if they live in neighborhoods with more greenery, such as parks, golf courses, or fields. Studies have shown that the families we...