Parenting and Advice
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
Beyond the Naughty and Nice List: Keeping Kids on Their Best Behavior At the Holidays and All Year Round
Authors John and Karen Miller want to help moms and dads parent through the holidays and forever more not with threats, gimmicks, and manipulative tricks, but by teaching kids to take accountability for their behavior. Here are their tips.
