Sunscreen Guide for Kids (updated for 2016)
Now that we know what to look for in a sunscreen, let’s talk about the products that are the best choice for your family.
Now that we know what to look for in a sunscreen, let’s talk about the products that are the best choice for your family.
A reader asks if she should stop in when her middle schooler is being harassed, or if it’s too much. I have soap box for this one.
Can a “cooperative kid” be made of a troubled teen? With a lot of parental changes (and tongue-biting), signs point to yes.
Some days I think chasing a toddler around the pool’s edge would be less exhausting than parenting teens.
Teens are likely to turn to their computers and/or peers when they’re stressed out, but could old-school hand-crafting be a better solution?
It’s not our business. Don’t interfere. These are the things that we say to ourselves when we don’t intervene.
I’m interested to hear what you guys think about Barbies. I don’t have a daughter, but I was a girl—a girl besotted with the world of Barbie.
My nephew is seven years old and still has the eating habits of a toddler. Help!
As teens leave behind ever-widening digital footprints, do their interactions deserve privacy? I don’t think so, and my kids know where I stand.
Is there any better time than summer to dive into a good book or two (or ten)? I say no. Here’s what my teens are reading, and what I hope they’ll read.
A reader asks how we deal with teens and the specter of poor teen decisions about drugs and alcohol and parties.
What happens when you leave your tween son’s punishment in the hands of his siblings? Hilarity, that’s what.
Baby books are filled with precious memories and important milestones. Here is a mother’s humorous list about some of the things that there isn’t a place for writing about in your baby books.
This year I am going to let go of the things that I feel guilty about and forgive my own shortcomings. What would forgiving yourself look like?
A family member wants to gift her nephew the princess toys that he wants for Christmas and with which his immediate family doesn’t allow him to play. What can she do in this sticky situation?
Wonderland, Wonderland, we’re on our way… Oops, sorry. Been watching too much WonderPets lately. Hi fair Wonderland readers, It’s Liz from Mom101, honored to be here once again in an effort to fill Alice’s formidable shoes. I’ve been gingerly caressing the faux leather uppers all…
The knife-edge between encouraging my teens to self-advocate and stepping in while I still can is a precarious one, especially in a world that’s unfair.
My high school senior is more ready for college than I’d imagined, except for this one little issue that could turn into a giant issue. I have to trust her.
I don’t tell new parents the things I think they really ought to know, because I doubt they would believe me. But here’s what I always want to say.
A parents first inclination is save our children when something goes wrong in their lives. Truth is we all learn better through making our own mistakes.