10 Summer Camps Parents Really Need Right About Now
Oh, summer, how we love you! Blue skies, long days, fireflies, swimming, s'mores. And, of course, deliriously happy kids! Well, mostly happy kids. Um. Sort of happy kids. Ok fine. Kinda bratty ki...
How to Prepare an Older Sibling for Bringing Home a New Baby
How do you gently tell your only kid that it's time to make room for a new baby? Just like this.
11 Personal Items You're Going to Want Postpartum That No One Seems to Mention
Do your postpartum self a favor and stock up on these must-haves now.
1 Reason Not to Play With Your Zipper Near a wedge-tailed Eagle
The youngster, said to be between six and eight, had been fiddling with the zipper of his jacket when the bird tried to pick him up "like a small animal" "For some reason the wedge-tailed Eagle di...
Camps say Care Packages are way out of Control
Lauren and Mark Bernstein, owners and directors of Camp Walden New York, were early adopters. When they bought the camp, located in Diamond Point, N.Y., 12 years ago, a no-package policy felt good ...
Parents Fear Pokemon is bad for Kids.
In 1999, when the first Pokémon movie was released in the U.S., TIME featured the fad in a cover story. And, though the magazine took pains to explain the craze to curious readers unfamiliar with t...
Family Support Helpful With Loved Ones With Diabetes Study Says
Better outcomes may be possible if family members receive support to help their loved ones with diabetes, according to the DAWN2 study, with analysis led by a Penn State College of Medicine researc...
Why We Talk About Consent With our Toddlers
It's never too early to teach kids about ownership of their bodies and how to respect the bodies of others. In fact, the sooner, the better.
When 'Stay-at-Home Mom' is a Dream Too Small
Staying home to raise a family is a noble job. But pursuing dreams and creative endeavors can't always take a back seat.
The Gift of No Mirrors: On Camping With My Daughters
Looking in the mirror, we search for flaws. Seek out our beauty and often, in our own minds come up short. Nature offers a welcome reprieve.
How Tracking When My Baby Ate Made Me a Better Mom
It may sound a little neurotic, but if a baby tracking app makes life as a new parent easier, I'm going all in.
Parents in the US Struggling to Find Happiness Compared to Others
For years, social scientists have known that nonparents are happier than parents. Study after study has confirmed the troubling findingthat having kids makes you less happy than your child-free pe...
Why People Need More Fruit and Vegtables
University of Warwick research indicates that eating more fruit and vegetables can substantially increase people's later happiness levels. The researchers concluded that people who changed from alm...
What Our Kids Play with-NEEDED New Focus on Regulatory Groups
In a new report, dozens of scientists, health practitioners and children's health advocates are calling for renewed attention to the growing evidence that many common and widely available chemicals...
Two mothers reflect on the implications of the length of their son's hair. For one, it's a preference; for the other it could mean life or death
7 Cooking Essentials For Every College Student
Here are basic kitchen skills your teen should master before summer is over. When our oldest child left for college last fall, I knew I would miss him terribly...but I wasn’t sure what might promp...
Attention Issues in Childhood can Have Lasting Effects
By fifth grade, children with early attention difficulties had lower grades and reading achievement scores than their peers. As fifth-graders, children with early attention problems experienced ave...
Teach Delayed Gratification to Your Kids
The trick to raising smart (and successful) kids is to start developing their thought processes early. ...hundreds of children were tested... ...They could either eat the marshmallow while the re...
9 Concerns You Need to Share With Your Child’s Doctor
While there is a wide range of normal development, early detection of sensory, speech, and physical issues can greatly improve outcomes.
Apparently Fertility Treatment Works for Most Women
Nearly three-quarters of women undergoing fertility treatment will give birth within five years of starting the process, research has revealed. The study followed almost 20,000 Danish women underg...
Who is the Most Awesome Runner Ever? This Guy!
Noah Droddy’s first appearance on national TV is like one long photo bomb. He pops up at the starting line of Hayward Field, out of focus on NBC’s live broadcast of the men’s 10,000-meter final, h...
Ways Parents can Help Underage Kids Resist Alchohol
To discourage teenage alcohol use, parents can engage their kids in discussion, set some rules and let their children know they care. The study also found that how often parents drank was predicti...
Imagine a World Without Work, What Would it Look Like?
Fears of civilization-wide idleness are based too much on the downsides of being unemployed in a society premised on the concept of employment. People have speculated for centuries about a future ...
5 Things Parents are Told to Worry About (But I Don't)
It's possible that the issues parents are told to freak out about aren't even the ones that make a real difference in the long run.