Parenting and Advice
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
How Writing Helps Me Overcome Parental Anxiety
Author Jason Gurley shares how, since becoming a father, storytelling and writing have kept his parental anxieties at bay.
Tips & Advice
Advice from a Super Hero Author and Mom: A Q&A with Lisa Yee
Lisa Yee, author of the upcoming series of DC Super Hero Girls middle grade novels, shares her secrets to success when balancing life as a mom and author.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
Letting It Be: Why I Stopped Trying to Change My Kids
Claude Knobler recounts his father's journey to find where he fit in the world, and how that story inspired Claude to accept his son's reading struggles.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Our Favorite Picture Book Dads of 2015
Contributor Tom Burns shares his picks for the best, most realistic, wonderfully flawed, and funny dads featured in picture books in 2015.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
What My Kids' Books Have Taught Me About Being a Dad
These five books offer children — and their fathers — some very worthwhile life lessons … because, let’s face it, mothers already know it all.
Growing Reader
The Super Simple Way to Help Your Kids Become Stronger Readers
Dyad reading is a very effective method of teaching reading that draws upon multiple senses. Surprisingly, many parents have never heard of it.
Tips & Advice
How to Help Kids Find Joy in Cooking? Hand Them a Book.
Alana Chernila, author of The Homemade Kitchen, shares one way to help kids find joy and satisfaction in the kitchen: Give them a cookbook, and let the pages do the work.
Baby & Toddler
Why 30 Million Words Are Critical to Your Child’s Future Success
We talked to Professor Dana Suskind, MD, founder of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, to find out how something as simple as talking is linked to lifelong success.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Money Talks: Literary Lessons on Money, Gratitude, and Responsibility for Little Ones
Here are some excellent books that you can share with your kids to help you talk about the sometimes tricky topic of money.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
5 Reasons Why Back to School Is Awesome for Parents
Jason Gay, author of the upcoming book Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living, shares five reasons parents should rejoice that their kids are back in school.
Grown-Up Reads
Why Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Is the Greatest Book About Parenting Ever Written
Brightly contributor Tom Burns makes the case for why Frankenstein is the single best book about parenting you'll ever read.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
How to Start Reading Chapter Books With Your Preschooler or Kindergartner
Reading a chapter book is really different from reading a picture book. Here are a few helpful tips for developing the skills to engage with a longer book.
