“Why did parenting change from preparing our kids for life to protecting them from life?” Julie Lythcott-Haims asks in her book, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free from the…
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“These are amazing days when you can videoconference Grandma in a different country in real time. But if you don’t minimize and monitor screens in your child’s life, when…
By Julie M. Cilio, Esquire Even though we may feel like technology has been around for a while now, the opportunities our children have online and through their smartphones…
Research indicates that less than 20 percent of all eighth graders read for fun on a regular basis. Want reading to be more than fundamental again? Embrace summer reading. 1. Let your…
We meet them all the time. If we’re lucky, we’re friends with a few of them – the risk takers, the goal setters, successful and positive people who take a…
By Julie M. Cilio, Esquire Families have lots of different ways of operating in 2015. In some families, both parents work outside the home; in other families, one parent works…
When you’re in the throes of parenting, it often feels like the exhaustion will never end, but as author and pediatrician, Harley Rotbart, points out, it does, and faster than…
Using research to offer parents advice on how to raise well-rounded kids who achieve their full potential, Ellen Galinsky, in her book Mind in the Making, focuses on critical areas…
Over the last five years, I’ve read 60 titles for Parenting by the Book. All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior is the first to move me to tears. …
I decided to read The Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons because I was worried about the dangers of “the ideal girl” curtailing my daughters’ power and potential. …
According to Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate, authors of Hold On to Your Kids, parents need to matter more than peers. As a parent with a preteen, my child is…
With school starting back up soon, I wanted to read something that would keep me mindful of the difference between my children excelling in school and being happy in school. …
