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Give Safe Gifts: Avoid These Holiday Toy Safety Hazards
- Choosing Single Parenthood in a Pandemic
Fertility specialists expected to see fewer clients during the pandemic. Instead, they saw a surge – especially among single women.
- Black Families and ‘The Talk’
“The Talk” is a conversation in many Black families about how to deal safely with police. How has it changed over recent years?
- Help Your Kids Manage School Pressure
The stress of academic pressure can show itself in different ways. Pay attention to big shifts in mood or behavior. Big shifts might be a sign of more serious problems.
- The Truth About Children’s Resilience
What does it take for a child to be resilient after a major setback? Find out what makes a difference.
- How to Help Your Daughter Be Ready for Her First Period
Your daughter’s first period can be a confusing time for her -- and for you. Here’s how you can make sure you’re both ready.
- Gone in an Instant: The Tragedy of Child Drownings
Drowning is the No. 1 cause of death for children 1 to 4 years old and the No. 2 cause of death for those 5 to 9 years old.
- But They’re Still a Kid: The Risks of “Adultification”
Learn what adultification bias is, what it looks like, and what you can do to stop it.
- What to Expect When Your Kid Becomes a Tween
During the tween years (8 through 12), children may become more independent, experience puberty, and value peer relationships over family ties.
- How to Prevent Yourself From Yelling at Your Kid
Experts and parents share tips to help you stop yelling at your kids.
- Signs That You Should Worry About Your Teen's Social Media Use
Social media offers benefits and risks for your teens. Learn when your teen's social media use should concern you.
- Internet Addiction: Is Your Teen at Risk?
A new study shows kids with ADHD, hostility, social phobia, or depression may be more likely to become addicted to the Internet.
- How To Support Your Shy Child
Is your child struggling socially due to shyness? Learn about how to support them more.
- Warning Signs of Sexual Abuse in Teens and Young Adults
Learn about the warning signs of childhood sexual abuse in young children and teens.
- Help Your Shy Child Make Friends
Is your child shy? Introversion is perfectly normal. Learn some tips to help you help your child overcome their shyness.
- What to Do if Your Child Is a Bully
Learn about how to support your child to stop bullying.
- How to Encourage Your Child Who Is Overweight
Obesity leads to health risks during childhood and later in life. Learn tips for encouraging your child who is overweight.
- What to Do if Your Child Has Suicidal Thinking
Learn what to do when your child has suicidal thoughts.
- How to Curb Your Child's Screen Time Without Fights
High amounts of screen time for children often correlate to negative health outcomes. Learn tips for reducing screen time without fights.
- How to Support Your Child's Activism
Does your child want to become an activist? Learn how you can support their efforts.
- How to Help Your Teen Learn to Drive
Learn about how to teach your teen to drive, including setting house rules to limit risky behaviors.
- How to Talk to Your Child About Sexual Assault
Wondering how to bring up the topic of sexual assault with your child? Learn more about tools and strategies you can use.
- How to Intervene if Your Child Is Angry or Aggressive
Does your child have behavior that is angry or aggressive? Learn about why that might be, how to help them, and more.
- How to Help Your Child With Math Anxiety
Is your child struggling with math anxiety? Learn ways to help your child overcome this issue.
- How to Help Your Child Not Be a Perfectionist
Learn about perfectionism, including its causes and how to help your child not be a perfectionist.
- How to Help Your Child With Phobias
Learn more about phobias and how to help your child manage them.
- How to Help Your Picky Eater
Many children have phases in which they become picky eaters. Here's how to help.
- How to Support a Child's Gender Identity
Learn about how to support a child's gender identity, including talking with your child about gender so they know more about it.
- How to Help Your Child Learn to Read
Learn how you can help your child learn to read by reading together and engaging in activities that help your child look forward to reading time.
- How to Help Your Child Who's Worried About School Shootings
Hearing about school shootings can be scary and traumatic for children. Here’s how to help your child if they have anxiety about school shootings.
- How to Raise an Anti-Racist Child
Raising children to value all people is important. Learn how to teach your child to be anti-racist.
- Home Schooling: Pros, Cons, What You Need to Know
Many parents turned to home schooling in the wake of pandemic uncertainty. If you’re thinking about it, here’s a look at the pros and cons, plus other things you need to know to get started.
- What Are the Different Parenting Styles?
There’s no one set way to parent your children. Learn about the pros and cons of various styles.
- Tips for New Moms: The First Few Weeks
Caring for a newborn is often tiring and overwhelming. Parents share their best advice on how to make it through those first weeks at home.
- Tips for Setting Curfews for Your Teens
Curfews for your teens can be tough to enforce, but it’s important that kids have guidelines to keep them safe and healthy.
- How to Manage Your Anger as a Parent
Anger has skyrocketed in parents during the pandemic. It’s normal to feel it and crucial to manage it as best you can.
- Single Mom by Choice: What You Need to Know
Considering parenting on your own as a single mom? Learn about one woman’s life as a single mother by choice.
- What It’s Like Having Three Kids
Thinking of having a third kid? Mom-to-three Diedre Anthony shares the ins and outs of her daily parenting life.
- I Hated Being Pregnant: Here’s How I Got Through It
Moms share why their pregnancies weren't the blissful experiences they hoped for.
- How to Co-parent Effectively
Divorce is all too common, and successful co-parenting perhaps less so. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Learn easy ways and new insights to switch to a team approach that helps your kids thrive.
- Safe Sleeping: Keep Baby in the Crib, Not Your Bed
For safe sleeping, parents should not share bed with infant, American Academy of Pediatrics says.
- Tips for Single Parents
Are you struggling to juggle all the responsibilities of being a single parent while trying to maintain your sanity? Get advice from other single parents on how to make life easier and happier for you and your children.
- Tips for Single Dads
Being a single dad can be tough. Get tips on how to set routines, build a support system, and communicate with your ex. Find out how you can make life easier for you and your children.
- Central Precocious Puberty and Your Child’s Social Life
CPP can make your child's life tough to navigate. Learn what you can do to help.
- Talking To Your Child About Central Precocious Puberty
Puberty is a tough time for kids -- especially when it starts early because of CPP. Get tips to help talk them through it.
- Catching Germs at School and in Sports
Kids are exposed to all sorts of nasty germs on the bus, at school, and while playing sports. Here’s how to keep them healthy.
- Catching Germs at School and in Sports
Kids are exposed to all sorts of nasty germs on the bus, at school, and while playing sports. Here’s how to keep them healthy.
- Is Your Teen Ready to Drive?
Research suggests that young drivers with poor working memory -- a type of cognitive skill -- are significantly more likely to have a car accident.
- Back-to-School Vaccines Your Kids Need
See which vaccines your child will need before heading back to school.
- Math Myths: Are Boys Really Better at Math?
Are boys innately better at math and science? That question has generated debate for decades, and new research looking at the brains of children while they do math may help answer the question.