Everyone knows that reading is important, but it’s still easy to feel overwhelmed by its significance. Whether your kid’s a natural bookworm or not, encouraging a love of reading — and hopefully honing some skills — can feel more complicated than it actually is. But before you start buying a bunch of phonics books or...
Karl Tapales/Moment/Getty Images Everyone aspires to be and raise a healthy eater. Honestly, it’s a great goal! But food politics within families can get brutal. What, when, and how much someone is eating — especially if it’s something considered a “bad” food or a “junk food” — can get dicey, and the line between “I’m...
We teach our kids all kinds of things. How to tie their shoes. How to ride a bike. How to say “please” and “thank you.” How to swim. Parenting is an endless loop of lessons — many practical, some even silly. But then there are the big things, the ones that literally shape our kids’...
TikTok There’s a common theme I’ve seen among male/female parents in my years of parenting. A baby is born to an excited mom and an excited dad. Mom gets eight weeks of maternity leave (if she’s lucky) while dad gets two (if he’s lucky). Over the first few weeks of the little one’s life, mom...