Browsing: Parenting
A parent’s biggest job is to take care of his or her children. There are a lot of responsibilities: providing…
Children need to play—for social, physical and emotional development, and for mental health. As a matter of fact, play is…
With a half-dozen two-by-four Lego bricks, a child literally has millions of different creations at his or her fingertips. A…
Anyone who has seen a teenage boy eat knows they are voracious. Inactive teen boys from ages 14 to 18…
That shelf of books on mean girls and childhood friendships? I read them all and still screwed up. For years,…
Stress is everywhere and affects everyone. Children are no exception. But unlike adults, kids are rarely mature enough to explain…
No one ever said “She just loves children” to describe me in my youth. Santa brought me Baby Alive for…
A number of years ago we had the opportunity to visit an alternative school that individualized curriculum to meet specific…
When my kids were babies, I related to them as a mother; it was the only frame of reference I…
At the beginning of the 20th century, teachers didn’t assign much homework because parents didn’t want it to interfere with…