How To Spend Summer With Your Kids and Not Lose Your Mind
A combination of organized activities and unstructured time for kids seems to be the right mix for this family and mom.
A combination of organized activities and unstructured time for kids seems to be the right mix for this family and mom.
Instead of overscheduling, having more free time built into our summer days makes all the difference.
I hope you understand that you’re doing the best you can right now. You really are. But all of the tears, the worrying, the agonizing, the self-doubt? Useless.
Five tips I’ve learned to make play group something we look forward to hosting every week.
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.
As the Summer Olympics approach and the kids are talking about competition, here’s my nighttime ritual to talk to my kids about how amazing I think they are.
My two-year-old has a bit of an obsession with the iPad. In order to manage her use of it, we impose time limits and also make sure to have plenty of educational apps loaded. There are tons of apps out there for toddlers but here we’re reviewing apps that help kids learn their alphabet and identify letters.
I never imagined I would be teaching my daughter about make-up at such a young age. But the there are lessons about beauty I want her to learn from me.
In honor of her child’s first day of preschool, one mom shops her way through five major children’s clothing stores and rates them on quality, price, style/selection and online experience.
We put three toddler backpacks to the test to see which was the best quality, the most for your money and of course, the cutest.
Kids are heading back to school and we have some helpful advice to help parents start their kids’ school year off on the right foot.
Back to school seems more than a fitting time of the year to make some resolutions. A time to reinvent our routines and make them work for us.
At what point — when special education and speech therapy and other services are the norm in your child’s life — do you explain to them that they’re different? And how?
Chelsea Handler of the future is pissed. When she sits down to write her parenting book, she’ll realize the book she wants to write has already been written.
Since puzzles are supposed to be great for developing math skills, I put my daughter through the ultimate test— completing four different beginner jigsaw puzzles.
Want to read some new books about parenting and then discuss them with other parents? We are going to do just that!
Ways to teach your kids to be respectful of people who have different political views than their own.
For my toddler’s first foray into the world of games, I played four different toddler card games to see which she responded to the best.
“Do not paint any walls in your house with flat paint” is just one of our many helpful tips for staying sane while raising children.
This week, I continued to play board games and dice games with my toddler, trying to teach her valuable lessons in counting, taking turns and good sportsmanship.