children

Each morning my little dog and I venture out in our neighborhood for a brisk walk. She employs her excellent nose to read messages from other dogs, and I…

"We've done it all wrong!" moaned the mother. "We've mishandled bedtime, and now we've taught our son the wrong way to go to sleep. Will he ever learn the…

There’s one resource every parent needs: a close friend or family member to stand beside them in the trenches. Dr. Victor Bernstein from the University of…

Parents despair over their children’s disappointing behavior, but here’s some good news: Odds are, your children are probably turning out better than you…

It’s one of those enigmas of child-rearing: In order to flourish, children need a complex mix of events that are both normal and novel.Normal events…

Recent reports about women choosing not to bear children has brought the “Childfree Choice” into the spotlight. Time Magazine reports that in 1976, only…

There were never two parents raising the same child anywhere who ever agreed entirely about how to do it. When adults care about the same child, a certain…

It was a recent blistering hot afternoon. A weary mother marched across the discount store parking lot with her three little boys. She firmly grasped the…

Amazingly, a wide variety of parenting styles produce healthy adults. But the divergence of those styles may make for disagreement with other parents.A…

Recently I wrote about children seeming to absorb by osmosis the characteristics of their families during the years of growing up. But a new book explores…