When Daddy’s Been Drinking, Part Two
I came home to find my baby in a dark room crying his eyes out…and my husband passed out drunk. What now? What’s next?
I came home to find my baby in a dark room crying his eyes out…and my husband passed out drunk. What now? What’s next?
I’ve volunteered to teach personal finance classes to teens. This is what I want teens to know about how credit cards work before they go off to college:
Design Mom’s new family video series Olive Us, featuring her six children, is an absolute delight. Not only is it instructional, but you see the kids being kind to each other. Our children need to see more of that in this world.
Make time to interview your child and record memories about the school year.
Here’s a quick and easy printable for you to customize as an end of the year Starbucks gift card thank you for all the top teachers out there.
Get your boys reading this summer with our awesome list of Books Boys Love! (And we’re pretty sure girls will love it, too!)
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.
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.
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.
Several of my young children are competitive athletes. These are the lessons my children have learned over the years from involvement in youth sports.
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.
All that said, the decision to leave your kids alone is obviously a very personal one and depends on factors such as their maturity, their environment and your basic comfort level. As well as other issues like whether you should put the oldest kid in charge and your kids’ ability to follow safety rules to the letter.
I don’t want my kids to become desensitized. I don’t want them to think it is okay to make fun of other people or feel superior to other people.Â