All Modern Parenthood
Baby Veronica Supreme Court ruling raises the question: What is a parent?Baby Veronica, returned to her adoptive parents by the Supreme Court, raises an increasingly important question in an age of diverse kinds of families: What is a parent?
How to talk about obesity and weight loss with your teenThe best way to talk about weight loss and obesity with teens, researchers say, is to avoid mentioning weight loss and obesity. Instead, focus on healthy eating.
Snapchat's new feature, SnapKidz, good in theory, not in practiceSnapchat — a temporary photo sharing platform that sends 200 million messages per day — introduced SnapKidz, a feature that attempts to prevent children from sending photos to friends. It could work, but it's easy to get around.
Is my child a quitter? Why you shouldn't jump to conclusionsTrying new things is what childhood — even adolescence and adulthood — is about. If your child tries many new activities, not all of them will click. Are they a quitter? Or simply not interested?
Minnesota power outage: A family learns four lessons to get by in a stormStorms caused power outages in Minnesota this weekend that affected more than a half million people, including James Norton, his wife, and their 2-month-old.
Mayim Bialik: Enough with the attachment parenting criticismMayim Bialik, the 'Big Bang Theory' co-star, is tired of critics picking fights over her choice of raising her two kids by attachment parenting. From nutrition to breastfeeding to educational practices to sleep schedules, no aspect of a child's escapes comment, argument, and sometimes vicious debate.
Best books for children: a word cloud merges best-of listsBooks for children are easy to find, but hard to choose. Googling books for children will bring back hundreds of hard-to-read vertical lists. See the best of in one glance with this word cloud design.
First day of summer 2013 has nothing on northern Norway's 60 days of sunThe first day of summer 2013 in the United States, the longest day of the year, still has less sunlight than northern Norway right now. Territories in the arctic circle have, effectively, 60 first days of summer.
Louis was right: when your kids start to 'know much more than I'll ever know'That bittersweet moment when parents realize their kids, graduating into adulthood, are starting to do life all by themselves.
Instagram video: Parents need not change their approach with the new featureInstagram now has video (15 seconds compared to Vine's six). Parents need not develop a new approach to Instagram's new video feature, though, and ConnectSafely's guide to Instagram still holds up.
The Summer Solstice is tomorrow. Celebrate with these themed cupcakesSummer solstice is tomorrow, June 21, and that means you have 24 hours to plan a summer solstice meal. For desert, we recommend these summer solstice cupcakes.
Summer activities for kids: Nix the planner, it's time to play pretendThink you need to schedule activity after activity to enrich your child's summer? Think again. Free time and even being bored can stimulate your child's imagination.
Twins rubber bands video: Two babies have the best time everTwins rubber bands: This video will go down in Internet history as the cutest video to go viral since the last cutest video. Sure, we may forget all about the twins and their rubber bands by tomorrow, but lets enjoy it today.
Watermelon Oreos: The public weighs in on social mediaWatermelon Oreos, the dunkable cookie's newest makeover, went on sale June 10, but the typically social media savvy company hasn't marketed the limited edition cookie as they have others.
Parenting the littlest media users: A study shows what concerns new parentsAre parents concerned about their wee ones becoming addicted to new media? Meh, not really. Nor are they saying media use is a source of conflict, a new study says.
National Pollinator week: How to get your family involvedFrom June 17-23 is National Pollinator week, a chance to get outside and learn about the animals responsible for supporting our ecosystem. Here's how to get your family involved.
Ground control to undergrad: Prepping your college student for home reentryYour college student is coming home. Reentering the atmosphere of their childhood will be bumpy, but a few preparations can ensure as safe a landing as possible.
Father's Day: Children always need you, no matter their ageTime passes quickly when you're a parent, but Father's Day allows a chance to look back at the younger days of children and appreciate where kids are now.
'You're not special' graduation speech: David McCullough spins it into a bookWhen his 'You're not special' Wellesley High School graduation speech went viral last year, book agents came calling. Now you can look for a book on the same theme tweaking the modern parenting culture of praise in which, he says, 'if everyone is special, then no one is.'
Empty nest: Diverse paths find an American family all in China, then goneAn empty nest fills when an American couple goes to China to work, and finds their trailing offspring with them. But now the Beijing-ensconced parents see their adult kids moving back to the US.
