Miniseries/Getty Images As a child, making a new friend can be as simple as finding someone who likes the same cartoon as you or who also enjoys playing with dinosaurs. (If only it were that easy as an adult!) On top of that, kids can — and often do — invent their own playmate in...
Instagram / @adamgrant There is truly no soap opera that can capture teen friendship drama — and parents can attest that the only thing worse than suffering from the Shakespearian plots of middle school lunch table politics is watching your own child struggle through it. The hardest part of witnessing your teen’s friend drama is...
Elizabethsalleebauer/RooM/Getty Images You are probably aware that spanking your kids is, well, terrible. And whether you agree or disagree, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long advised that parents not hit their children, please and thanks. On top of that, decades of research has proven spanking to be ineffective at best, and harmful at...
aislebeauty / TikTok When I was little, my mom would throw my birthday parties at our house. She’d serve pizza and cake. We’d play games. We’d have dance parties. Every kid in the neighborhood would swing by. They were always simple but never dull. All I really needed was my friends and some sweets. The...