5 Tips for Getting Your Kids to Bed in the Heyday of Summer
Summer is one long endless day – and it is exhausting. But that doesn't always mean your kids want to go to bed. Here's how to get some essential sleep.
Easy Ways to Build Water Confidence With Your Child
If your child is water-shy, try these tips for boosting their confidence and maximizing productive lesson time. And yes, there's plenty you can do at home.
4 Things That Matter on Family Vacation, and 4 Things That Totally Don’t
When it comes to vacation, pick the things to care about and let the rest go before we lose it, National Lampoon-style.
3 Simple Ways Water Can Calm Your Children
As one of our most important natural resources, water provides so many benefits including improving our health and happiness.
10 Creative Ways to Beat Summer Boredom
There's plenty of summer left to get creative with your kids. Go learn, create, and have fun! Here are ways to conquer that unpleasant feeling of boredom.
5 Tips to Teach Kids the Subtle Art of Graciousness
In an effort to improve both manners and self-esteem, here are five easy tips to practice when accepting a compliment. You'll help raise a gracious kid.
Why Kids Watch the Strangest Things on YouTube
Why do kids choose such strange videos on YouTube, like unboxing videos, movies of people playing Minecraft, or clips of YouTube celebrities shopping?
5 Present-Day Parenting Styles Inadvertently Favored in the 1970s
Back then, they didn't have fancy names for the different approaches to parenting. Only in the information age do we need to put a label on it.
Science Confirms You Are a Different Person After Giving Birth
You likely knew it already, but once you've carried a person in your body for 9 entire months, you come out the other side a different person.
Sibling play: Games for Toddlers and Preschoolers to Enjoy Together
Playing together is a powerful way for siblings to bond. But for kids at different growth stages, it isn’t always easy to find activities everyone enjoys.
9 Things You Should Never Say to Same-Sex Parents
Culturally reinforced naiveté is understandable coming from a small child. But there's no great excuse when it comes from adults.
A Trip to Canada’s National Parks May Be Just the Vacay You Need This Summer
This summer, find out for yourself why Bono, frontman for U2, said “I believe the world needs more Canada.” Here are incredible places to see with your family.
In Difficult Times, A Better Response Than "I Can’t Imagine"
Even if we don’t want to imagine what someone else is going through, we can at least try to ease their passage.
4 Outdoor Excursions to Beat the Summer Heat
The air conditioning is running and the kids are begging for more screen time. But we're going outside. Here are four ideas for when it's scorching outside.
The LGBTQ Community Needs You to Put Down Your Fear
Where there's fear, it's impossible for love and acceptance to thrive. Let me tell you about people like me. Let me tell you a little about what it means to be a member of the LGBTQ community.
5 Budget-Friendly Tips for Hitting the Open Road this Summer
On a family road trip, the good outweighs the bad, and even the bad always makes for a funny memory. Here are five tips for making the most of it.
The Real Reason You Should Garden With Your Kids
You can garden with your kids without leaving the house or changing out of your pajamas. Best of all, it will save you at least one trip to the grocery store.
10 Ways to Ensure Your Next Family Road Trip is a Success
Family road trips don't have to be a National Lampoon-esque disaster. Especially if you keep these tips in mind.
Why Awe Should Be on Your Summer Vacation Checklist
The most powerful way that our children can be transformed by a trip is if they feel a sense of awe during this time. Here's how to bring awe along.
Why "Work Life Balance" Is Too Simplistic for Modern Dads
There's been a lot of change for dads in a short period of time. Today they work as many hours as previous generations, but do three times the childcare and twice the housework as dads a generation...
How to Dress for Those Weird Early Pregnancy Weeks
For that period of time when your pants are held together with a strategically looped hair tie.
Professional Potty Trainers and Two Other Early Parenting Coaches You Can Totally Hire
Though pricey, these services can make a world of difference for families struggling through early parenting milestones.
How to Help Your Marriage Survive Infertility
Facing the real possibility of never conceiving or giving birth to biological children pushes some couples to their limits.
5 Science-Backed Ways to Spring Clean Your Parenting (Without Going Insane)
This spring season we're going easy on the household cleaning and focusing on simplifying our parent minds. Yes, easier said than done. Here some ideas!