Please Get Off My Back! (The Perils of Overprotective Parenting)
I vowed never to become an overprotective parent like my mother. Then I had a child.
I vowed never to become an overprotective parent like my mother. Then I had a child.
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.
As the clock ticks down on my oldest’s remaining time at home before launch, the pushing and pulling between us intensifies, bittersweet.
A reader mustache me a question: Her tween is changing before her eyes, but sometimes those changes mean trying to decide what to bring up and what to let go.
I do my best to model the kind of attitude I would like my daughter to have about her body. However, mine isn’t the only opinion she hears.
Want your child to grow up with a healthy, realistic view of sexuality, and to wait until they’re really ready for intimacy? Read on.
Should you ask your child what would make you a better parent? Single mom of four Kristen Chase asked her 9-year old and here’s what she said.
How do you help your daughters when they are excluded from play by the other neighborhood girls?
A mom wants to help her daughter make friendships with the girls at her dance studio even though her daughter doesn’t seem interested in doing so. What can and should she do?
A couple of life lessons I want to pass down to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, about the importance of a positive body image and the consequences of surrounding herself with people who hurt, not help, that image.
You’re nothing like me, in all the best ways possible. Where I am shy, you are confident. Where I am weak, you are strong. Where I am laid back, you are fierce.
A mom wants to know how to help her young teen make connections in their new community without overstepping. Can it be done? Maybe.
Our slightly cantankerous second dog has unwittingly helped me to be a better mother to my teenage daughter, because they have a lot in common.
Teaching kids about love and happy relationships when we’re still figuring it out ourselves.
Talking with my teen daughter can be fraught, so I’m taking the back door on communication whenever I can. Every little bit is a win.
My daughter shares my love of bargain-hunting, but I don’t think she knows that she’s my best bargain yet. Lucky me!
How do you strike the right balance between body positive talk and practical help for your tween daughter who is self-conscious about a little extra facial hair?
With just a few months left before my oldest flies the coop, we survived being in a show together (and had a blast).
“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?
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.