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3 Keys To Asserting Authority As A Parent

Posted 03.14.2013 | Parents

This post is part of Stress-Less Parenting Club's first workshop. Check out previous challenges here, and if you haven’t signed up yet, go to the pu...

Pamela Druckerman Answers Your Questions

Posted 03.18.2013 | Parents

A different approach to bedtime and more.

3 Keys To Teaching Your Kids To Be Independent

Posted 03.14.2013 | Parents

This post is part of Stress-Less Parenting Club's first workshop. Check out previous challenges here, and if you haven’t signed up yet, visit the pu...

9 Ways To Get Your Kids To Eat Veggies

Posted 04.02.2013 | Parents

This post is part of Stress-Less Parenting Club's first workshop. Check out previous challenges here, and if you haven’t signed up yet, visit the pu...

3 Keys To Improving Your Kids' Eating Habits

Posted 03.14.2013 | Parents

This post is part of Stress-Less Parenting Club's first workshop. Check out previous challenges here, and if you haven’t signed up yet, visit the pu...

Teaching Kids Patience: Pamela Druckerman And Our Readers Share Their Best Advice

Posted 04.02.2013 | Parents

This post is part of Stress-Less Parenting Club's first workshop. Go here to get started on our Week One challenge, and if you haven’t registered ye...

Pamela Druckerman's Tips For Teaching Kids To Wait A Minute

Posted 04.22.2013 | Parents

Welcome to week one of the Stress-Less Parenting Club's first workshop. Get started here to find peace while parenting, and if you haven’t signed up...

Pamela Druckerman's Tips For Teaching Kids To Wait A Minute

Posted 02.22.2013 | Parents

Welcome to week one of the Stress-Less Parenting Club’s first workshop. Get started here to find peace while parenting, and if you haven’t registe...

Is Cake The Key To Teaching Kids Patience?

Pamela Druckerman | Posted 04.22.2013 | Parents
Pamela Druckerman

Patience isn't a fixed quality. It's more like a muscle, which grows stronger with practice. And French kids get a lot of practice.

What I Learned From Lazy French Mothers

Pamela Druckerman | Posted 04.14.2013 | Parents
Pamela Druckerman

I've come around to the French (though not exclusively French) idea that a slower, less stressful pace of family life isn't just more relaxing for grown-ups. It's also good for kids.

Introducing The Stress-Less Parenting Club

The Huffington Post | Farah L. Miller | Posted 03.14.2013 | Parents

HuffPost Parents is starting a club. If you are a mom or dad who feels stressed out, we want you to join because we are going to find some peace toget...

Best Worst Brands of the Week: View Master, Spiro Graph, Nasty Gal, The History of Nearly Everything

Alona Elkayam | Posted 10.14.2012 | Arts
Alona Elkayam

Over the years I had come to notice a distinct sign indicating I was in times of extreme happiness -- fluorescent colors in flashing Spiro graphic for...

Tiger Teachers: The New Stage Moms Aren't the Moms

Hilary Levey Friedman | Posted 08.07.2012 | Home
Hilary Levey Friedman

Despite their extreme antics at this point, it's a total cliché to criticize 'Dance Moms' moms. The people who really should make us scratch our heads are the other adults involved: the teachers and coaches.

Is Work-Life Balance a Myth?

LearnVest | Posted 06.17.2012 | Parents
LearnVest

Many moms are happy and willing to martyr themselves.

What Does 'American Parenting' Look Like?

Nicole Brittingham Furlonge | Posted 06.05.2012 | Parents
Nicole Brittingham Furlonge

What does an "American parent" look like?

Vive La France? Revolutions in Parenting

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.22.2012 | Parents
Sam Chaltain

Our well-intended quest for ever-higher achievement has bred a nation of helicopter parents and a generation of children with plenty of love and precious few limits.

Do French Parents Have A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi?

AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 04.23.2012 | Parents

NEW YORK — So you're visiting someone's home with your child and hot chocolate is served. As the hostess' kids sip the delicious concoction poli...

Bringing Up Bébé, Idonomics and the American Dream

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.16.2012 | Parents
Hoyt Hilsman

The answer may not be to embrace French or Chinese parenting techniques, but as a society we need to examine our helter skelter approach to the American dream.

Superior French Babies? Vraiment?

Monica Gallagher Sakala | Posted 04.09.2012 | DC
Monica Gallagher Sakala

Peel back the layers of cultural stereotypes meant to catapult vulnerable and tired American parents into a perpetual state of self-doubt and longing for all things French, and all I reach is one conclusion: Good parenting is borderless.

Why 70s Parents Are Superior to French Parents

Amy Wilson | Posted 04.07.2012 | Parents
Amy Wilson

Last year's "Tiger Mom" tempest made Amy Chua a bestselling author, and Pamela Druckerman, author of the released-this-week Bringing Up Bébé, is surely hoping lightning strikes twice.

French Parents Don't Freak Out

Debra Ollivier | Posted 03.25.2012 | Parents
Debra Ollivier

Though they love their kids passionately like everyone else, the French generally don't subvert their identities to the lives of their children.

Political Sex Scandals: Obama, McCain & Palin

Twanna A. Hines | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Twanna A. Hines

Woe is the modern American politician: so much sex, too little time. Ho, hum. Nothing new.