While everyone’s holiday traditions differ, the high expectations and level of activity surrounding all holidays and special events can be very stressful, especially if you have a child with a…
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Advice from a parenting pro on two important issues of training during the holidays – potty and gratitude!
When you want your kids’ holiday season to be about more than making long gift lists, sometime they’ll surprise you!
Staying ready, staying organized, staying anxious about being ready and organized. What parenting with ADHD looks like from Sam Davies.
As parents, we all have dreams for our children. For many parents, a vision of watching them graduate from high school one day and heading off into a bright…
Tutoring, like clothing, comes in all shapes and sizes. For some people, tutoring might spark memories of frustration or embarrassment over struggling to understand a particular concept. For others, tutoring…
These days, it’s convenient and easy to blame social media for many of society’s pitfalls – from the rise of the sometimes dangerous challenge trend to the state of our…
Local dad Eddie Yabut shares some of the skills that he son and his young son have taught each other in the earliest years!
Bullying is horrible and one way to prevent your kid(s) from doing it is to never let them hear you talking about other people. That’s it – that’s the tip…
Writing at my desk the other morning, I heard the chop-chop-chop of a kitchen knife. It was Atticus, slicing bananas and strawberries. The cutting was followed by the shoveling of…
[Photos by Joan Marcus. This article was originally published in 2014 and has been updated.] Live theater has been dicey with my boys since the first giraffe walked onto…
My soon-to-be eighth-grader has a crush on a neighbor. A few summers ago (pre-crush and pre-pandemic), I let them hang out together in her bedroom. I don’t think that’s a…
