I just read yet another funny column from parenting columnist Stephanie Calman. In it, she confesses to letting her kids play the role of parent now and then, just to keep things fun. I like the idea....

This makes me sick to my stomach. I realize that news, while it informs the public, is often sensationalized and designed to incite emotion and sell newspapers, but this report that a disproportionat...

This is a timely bit of news for me since my seven-year-old is nearly freaking out about the start of school. Granted, the thought of going to school with a bunch of French -speaking kids when your na...

I’ve always considered guilt to be a useless emotion. Not so, according to this this article. As explained in the article, guilt, along with something called effortful self control, plays an imp...

Apparently, I’m not just a dirty diaper but “an extra poopy dirty diaper.” “Oh yeah,” I tell my 4-year-old daughter, “you’re an extra poopy dirty diaper with ...

One of the hardest parts of parenting for me, is restraint. By restraint, I mean shutting my mouth when I get the urge to talk about grown- up topics in the presence of my kids. This column, about wha...

My 4-year-old Zoe started her first day of preschool this morning with flowers in her hair, a new “pretty dress” and an advertisement for Budweiser beer dangling from her neck. And it wasn...

As this article about the benefits of setting strict bedtimes can attest, kids need sleep, lots of it, and when they don’t get enough they behave badly, take longer to put to sleep, and sleep w...

This story made my day.   My son’s fifth-grade class changes clothes for gym (seems young to me, but isn’t everything a bit rushed nowadays?). While Zachary was changing, a classm...

It started out as a sweet story. A six-year-old from Delaware was so excited about joining the Cub Scouts that he wanted to take his new camping utensil to school so that he could use it to eat his lu...