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.
Parenting
Nerves, Fears, Tears: a High School Orientation Story
“I feel like I don’t belong here.” She said. Her words hit me like a punch to the gut. How could I just get up and leave her in a place where she felt so alone?
Holidays
Thanksgiving Table Talk: Graces, Jokes and Holiday Trivia
Wondering what to talk about at the Thanksgiving table this year? We’re sharing our favorite graces and jokes, as well as some fun holiday trivia.
Parenting
Slurs and Hate Speech: The Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
35 years after I first felt the pain of an ableist insult, “-tard” has suddenly become a politically fashionable suffix. It’s not casual or funny. It’s hate speech.
Big Kid
The Waiting is the Hardest Part of College Admissions (for me)
While we wait to hear from my son’s top-choice college, I’ve taken to a somewhat unconventional coping method.
Parenting
10 Ways to Stop Your Kids From Flipping Water Bottles (Without Killing Them)
If your kids, like mine, are obsessed with the Water Bottle Flip Challenge, here are a few ways we can get them to stop before we lose more of our minds with each flippin’ flip,
Parenting
Sometimes It’s Okay To Be Off Your Parenting Game
Parenting is a 24/7 job and you can’t always be expected to bring your A game. Sometimes we relax on the job and that is more than okay.
Big Kid
When the Parenting Formula Fails to Solve For X
We talk about cranky babies and unwieldy toddlers; why don’t we talk more about struggling teens? We fear judgment, but that’s just got to stop.
Big Kid
The Lost Summer? Maybe The Best Summer
While my time of “active parenting” with my kids is drawing to a close, I finally figured out how to make sure the tail end of their childhoods isn’t lost.
Activities
My Kids are in Camp and I Refuse To Feel Guilty About It
The idea of a lazy, 1970’s inspired summer sounds fun but the reality is – I need to keep my kids busy at summer camp so I can get my work done and keep my sanity.
Baby
On Life With Three
A reader follows-up with Amalah asking her how life looks like now raising three kids.
Parenting
New Neighborhood Pariahs
A family moved into a fantastic neighborhood with a built-in playgroup for their kids. But the entire family (including the kids) are social outcasts after the father more than crossed the line with his angry outburst. Can the relationships be saved?
Big Kid
How to Immunize Your Kids From the Insanity of Election Year
How are we, as parents, supposed to keep our kids believing they should do the right thing when they see how rewarded the bad things are?
Parenting
The Biggest Challenge of Having a Large Family
There are challenges that come with a big family. Constant comments from strangers and lots of mouths to feed. But there is one challenge I find the hardest.
Big Kid
Transitioning To An Empty Nest
I finally bought a new car, but is it just a car or the beginning of a bunch of transitions on our way to empty-nest-dom?
Big Kid
Thanksgiving Apart: Still Thankful
Our family won’t be together this week, but that’s okay — it’s helping me focus on what’s really important, and how thankful I truly am.
Parenting
So, About Kids And Religion…
A recent study says religious kids aren’t as nice as non-religious ones. As a somewhat religiously-confused parent, I’m not sure what to think.
Parenting
3 Simple Tips For Getting Your Summer Parenting Groove Back
Are you feeling the crush of summer? Here are 3 simple tips to help you get your parenting summer groove back.
Big Kid
May I Have This (Senior Year) Dance?
With just one (short) year left before college, I have to figure out how to give my oldest enough room to get ready to launch. We’re getting there.
Young Child
Frustrated No More (Except With Ourselves)
Amalah uses a celebratory Advice Smackdown update for some self-reflection on our own hard-earned parenting achievements, as imperfectly won as they may have come.