Young Child
Teaching Global Citizenship through Language
How can you get your young child excited about different cultures and countries around the globe? We have some ideas.
Activities
The Imagination Movers Are Back! (Watch them at Home)
Find the popular and beloved Imagination Movers at home and on screens now through Disney+.
Relationships
Sharing the Work of Parenting: What I Learned By Giving My Partner Some Room
What I learned when I stopped hovering and started giving my partner some room to be the parent they always were.
Products & Services
To Grandmother’s House We Go! These Seven Vehicles Can Handle Your Holiday Travel
I am often asked about vehicles one can use for work and also to visit family and take a vacation with the kids. These seven vehicles fit the bill.
Health & Safety
Holding-off Talking to Your Child About Sex? Talk Sooner, Not Later.
Experts agree that when it comes to talking to kids about sex, you can’t start the conversation(s) too soon.
Family Fun
Five Best Ice Cream Shops in the Midwest
We ate our way through ice cream shop to shop searching for the best all in the name of “research.” Yes, our approach was unscientific. But, these are our favorite ice cream parlors and flavors.
Products & Services
Kids’ Music that Won’t Make You (or them) Throw a Tantrum
We’re always on the hunt for music the whole family can enjoy. Here are some artists we recently discovered on the kids’ stage a very popular music festival.
Health & Safety
Three Tips You Need to Know About Car Seat Safety
Car seat safety guidelines are regularly updated. Take our little quiz to see how you do on three important recommendations.
Health & Safety
Safe Driving Tips from Professional Racers You Can Teach Your Teens (and Use Yourself)
Some safer driving tips that I learned from professional racecar drivers that all drivers should know to help them improve their driving skills.
Products & Services
Best Vehicles for Adventurous Off-Roading Families
If you’re looking for a family vehicle that can handle rough terrain or one that can tow a camper or haul bikes, we’ve got recommendations.
Education
Inspire Your Daughter’s Inner Engineer
How spending quality time together with their fathers inspired girls to pursue interesting career paths in the auto industry.
Products & Services
You Are Cool Enough for a Minivan and Three Reasons to Love Them
If you have a minivan aversion, you may be missing out. The minivans of today are not the minivans of the past and we share why.
Education
The Homework Blues: Five Strategies for a Better Experience
Homework can be hard on families and we can all benefit from been-there-done-that advice and should be open to learning about new helpful resources, too.
Family Fun
Bumblebee: the Transformers Girl-Power Movie You’ll Want To Make Sure Your Daughters Don’t Miss
Not only is this Transformer prequel set in 1987, it’s about a girl and her car. That’s when I started to fall in love with this movie. You’ll want to make sure your daughters don’t miss it.
Family Fun
Mary Poppins Returns Triumphantly with an All-Star Cast and New Toe-Tapping Songs
Mary Poppins returns in an all new movie with with an all-star cast, and we tell you exactly why it’s a great movie to see with your family this holiday season.
Products & Services
The Most Beautiful Vehicles on the Market that Can also Rock the Carpool Line
We research and list phenomenal cars that offer room for transporting families and are super stylish (a couple are the couture version of cars).
Big Kid
Managing your Child’s ‘Lizard Brain’
Our children have “lizard brains”? Actually we all do. Learn what that means and how to try to handle some common disruptive behaviors in children.
Health & Safety
Five Bad Driving Habits You Will Wish Your Kids Hadn’t Seen
By the time your kids are driving, it’s too late to pretend you’re the perfect driver. These are some bad driving habits you might want to conquer before your kids are old enough to notice.
Education
Girls on Their Way to Changing the World
Meet Daniella Benitez, 13, and Naomi Wadler, 11, who are making a difference in their communities with their hands and voices.
Health & Safety
Learn About New Auto Technology for Teen Driver Safety (and your sanity)
Do you have teen drivers in your house? These technologies will help them stay safer on the road.