I wore my hair very long in high school and cut it in college only when it caused my mother serious distress. But my parents never let how I looked diminish how much they loved me or wished to be with me... anytime, anywhere.
With school around the corner, now is the perfect time to think about the type of digital home you want to have and inch towards a more healthy one.
After my friend left I thought, what is wrong with me? Why would I just spew out unsolicited advice like that? Then I realized why, and I realized it's the same reason people offer unsolicited advice to new mothers.
Learning to eat is one of the great challenges for a child -- but it can also be one of parenting's central joys. Learning to eat out should be no different.
I'm not a perfect parent by any stretch, but one of the things I'm most proud of is that my kids know that when they get in an argument with each other, there's one rule: Figure it out.
If you have a child later in life, like I did, it only increases the likelihood that you will be parenting without your parents. I never had that maternal advice, and my son doesn't have my mom as a grandmother.
Just short of moving abroad ourselves, hosting an exchange student proved to be an unparalleled cultural education.
As researchers (and virtually all parents) have long known, children show definite sex differences when it comes to behavior such as play and risk-tak...
All over the country, recent high school grads are planning their exodus from home, thinking that relative freedom from parental intervention is about to begin. In the age of the electronic tether, they might be in for a big surprise.
To maximize the chance of getting your article published, be careful to make exactly the same argument that shows up in every other article on the topic. It sounds like this: "Parents today refuse to set limits for their children."
I always bite my tongue when I meet little girls, restraining myself from telling them how darn cute and well-coiffed they are. What's wrong with that? It's our culture's standard talking-to-little-girls icebreaker, isn't it?
Diaper explosions. Spit up stains. Cradle cap. No parent goes into this job without expecting some icky moments but there a few chores that are so frustrating, gross or bizarre that you want to look around for the hidden camera.
Whether you're talking about it with them or not, your kids are thinking about the headlines they see and hear about in the news.
Lillian made clear when she was younger that she didn't like us being in two houses. But since we knew we had to be in two houses, we tried to our best to make each of them home for her.
While we played with our daughters like children, we spoke to them as adults. We ate dinner together every night and engaged them in conversation almost before they could fully form sentences.
Giovanna lives with the anguish of not wanting a second child so soon, but with the concern that she is harming her son by not giving him a little brother or sister immediately.
Post these three words -- calm, tough, and persistent -- on your fridge, put them on your screensaver, or tattoo them on your forehead, whatever it takes so that you don't forget them.
"Tramp" is a provocative 5 letter word. We must be careful how we use it. Whether in slander or owning it, the meaning is the same. A woman is either being devalued or is devaluing herself. And, that is a message that we don't want to give our daughters.
In order to make the decision to have an old school birthing experience, you have to substitute fear for curiosity.
Teens heading off to college need to understand what it takes for them to succeed in life and how to make that happen. How can parents start this process?
I'm sick and tired of moments here on the Strip when I have to censor an otherwise wonderfully profane anecdote simply because some little darlings are within earshot. In a bar. In Las Vegas. Is nowhere unsacred?
I read the book about John Wooden and time after time thought, "If only parents could raise their kids this way, we wouldn't have the problems we do."
In our worried, anxiety-ridden efforts to create high achieving, multi-talented college students, we and our children often lose touch with our sense of wonder, our penchant and flair for the the impromptu, the spontaneous, the surprise.
There is nothing like listening to another parent's nightmare story to make you feel like you might not have it so bad.
Parents of high-achievers are getting the message: Stop the pressure. But what happens when your kid is the one refusing to let up?
