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Please, Please Clean Your Room

The New Yorker delivers with this hilarious father-son dialogue.

Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda Recommends A Little Less Parenting

Teach your kid to make their own way. To follow their interests, make their own path.

5 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Little Ones When You're Traveling for Work

Ways to connect while traveling for work (or fun) that help ease separation and keep the family bond strong.

The Most Sustainable Restaurant in the World Might be This School Cafeteria

The school grows its own food, composts, and the entire kitchen runs on solar power. But the biggest difference from typical school lunches is probably the fact that they decided to stop serving an...

Pura Vida: A Need to Travel, so the Baby Travels Too

"The baby fits into our life, I answered, naïve, yet sure of my parenting philosophy, long before I myself became a parent. We need to travel, so the baby travels, too."

Study of 160,000 children finds that spanking increases childhood defiance and long-term mental issues

Spanking is associated with unintended detrimental outcomes, finds a new study in the Journal of Family Psychology, based on five decades of research involving more than 160,000 children. “The upsh...

Higher Levels of Arsenic Found in Babies Who Eat Rice Cereal

The potential health effects of regularly consuming infant rice cereal — and other rice-based products —containing traces of arsenic are unclear.

Mothers' Nurturing During Preschool Years Linked to Robust Brain Growth

Mothers' support linked to robust growth of brain area involved in learning, memory, stress response New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates children with su...

Music Probably Helps Your Baby Understand the World

While more study is needed, the researchers said listening to music may help babies be more perceptive about the world around them.

Productivity Slipping? Sales Dropping? Sleep More.

About a third of your employees in any big company are coming to work with an equivalent impairment level of being intoxicated.

Kid Made Recipe: Slow Cooker Chipotle Chicken Tacos

Make the best homemade tacos you've ever had without touching your stove Taco Night, I didn't think I could love you more.

How to Jump-Start Your Morning Productivity

So much of having a productive morning is about setting yourself up for success the night before. Hit the ground running with these eight practices

Video: This Is Your Brain on Music

The Life Noggin channel has created a short animated video that explains the latest science behind our brain's deep relationship with music.

Have Kids Under 6? Use Regular Detergent, Not Detergent Packets

Experts recommend that families with children younger than 6 years old use traditional detergent instead of packets.

Preschool Crafts Are Wasting Everyone's Time, Here's Why

The purpose is to teach children a predictable cognitive sequence they can apply when they encounter anything new.

Why Avoiding Peanuts to Avoid an Allergy Can be a Bad Strategy

New research on potential allergens fits with a wider hypothesis that complete avoidance of risky substances doesn’t work well. Source: Avoiding Peanuts to Avoid an Allergy Is a Bad Strategy for Mo...

Expert Resources for Practicing Mindfulness with Your Kids

How can you pass up an approach that might help your child focus on tasks, calm nervous energy, control negative behavior, and build self-esteem?

Pride Mingled With Grief as a Father's Son Leaves for College

I knew it would be hard, but I didn’t know it would be this hard. But this is the way it should be. This is what I have worked for since my son was born.

Why I Love My Bad Self

There’s always going to be someone who challenges me. The real challenge however, is in how I view myself. There’s no good or bad, only mine.

Hello New Neighbors

Here’s something you should probably know about us right off the bat: We’ve got five kids (and they sure do eat a lot).

Missing 100 Days of School. A True Story. 

Missing 100 days of school should have pointed toward the end of the story, but instead it was only the beginning.

The Music That Eases Us Through the Tangle of Our Years

"Some musicians are passed down like spirit guides." A beautiful personal essay about the power of Prince's music through many phases of life.

Go Get a Job and an Apartment, Dinosaur Baby

"For sauropods, it doesn’t appear that they were very good parents — at least after their babies hatched."