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Teen

5 Secrets to Help Decode Your Teen’s Behavior

Parenting teens can be a roller coaster ride filled with mood swings, arguments, and confusion. Vanessa Van Edwards, a human behavior investigator, offers insights to help parents better understand why teens act the way they do.

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Just For Fun

11 of the Best Moms in Children’s Literature

We asked our contributors to share some of their best-loved mothers in children's literature. Here are the ma's, mothers, and grandmas — kind, funny, smart, and strong — who've touched their hearts.

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Grown-Up Reads

How to Take a Pause as a Parent: 7 Simple Breaks to Incorporate into Your Everyday Routine

Pausing is easy, simple, and, best of all, costs nothing! Whether you take one minute or 15, these daily pauses can help you feel calm and rejuvenated.

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Grown-Up Reads

What Does 'Mom' Mean Now That They’re Grown?

What role does a mother play once her kids become adults? Author Kate Marshall shares her work-in-progress list of what it means to be a mom to grown-up kids.

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Baby & Toddler

How Reading to Your Children Helps You to Be a Present Parent

Erica Komisar, LCSW explains how sitting and reading a book with your child can be a very intimate, emotionally bonding experience that allows you to be in the moment.

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Baby & Toddler

Pre-K

How to Read Aloud to a Child That Won’t Sit Still

If your child struggles to pay attention or sit still while you’re reading together, here are five tips that may help.

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Growing Reader

Tween

A Reading List for Moms Who Want To Raise Feminist Sons

These books can help you educate yourself on the issues around feminism, and present your sons with stories of strong and forthright women and girls.

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Just For Fun

8 Children’s Book Authors Share Their Go-To Parenting Mantras

We all have our favorite parenting phrases. For fun, we asked these creative, word-loving folks to share their most reliable parenting refrains.

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Tween

In the Business of Getting Along: 4 Simple Tips for Surviving Your Kids’ Tween Years

Amy Cooper Hakim, Ph.D., an industrial-organizational psychology practitioner, helps people at work to get along. When her kids started acting up, she adapted some workplace tactics to ensure that her family could get along better too.

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Tween

Teen

Raising Confident Tweens and Teens: Expert Tips To Help Your Kid Step Outside Their Comfort Zone

How can we thoughtfully nudge our children outside their comfort zones so they can build that confidence and resilience we want for them? Here are some tips that might help.

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Grown-Up Reads

What to Read Now: Two Compelling Novels and a Go-To Parenting Book

Looking for advice? An escape? A bit of magic? Here are three fantastic books to read right now.

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Grown-Up Reads

Tips & Advice

Win at Losing: How to Help Kids See Success in Their Failures

Author Sam Weinman explains that it's challenging, but crucial, to show children that failure and loss are often experiences we need to grow and learn.

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