Articles in Parenting Advice & Columns:

1. Should you let your kids cheat?
   By Jen Klein on Nov 5, 2009

   Board games are a great way to teach certain skills to kids, including strategy and fair gamesmanship -- but I'm not really a fan....
2. Teaching kids to take charge of morning routine
   By Jen Klein on Nov 4, 2009

   Some of us moms are not exactly morning people. Getting the kids up and going is a challenge not because of any action on the kids'...
3. Know your local hospitals: Be prepared for emergencies
   By Jen Klein on Nov 3, 2009

   You can't get away from media coverage of health issues these days. From talk about prevention and vaccination to insurance and...
4. Monday Mom challenge: Get a fabulous hair style
   By Jen Klein on Nov 2, 2009

   How did it get to be November already? Where did the fall go? And summer and spring for that matter? Things are moving way, way too...
5. Dealing with fighting siblings
   By Jen Klein on Oct 30, 2009

   Before I had kids, I was so smug. I was sure I'd be such an excellent parent that my children would never argue. They just wouldn't....
6. How much privacy should your teen have?
   By Jen Klein on Oct 27, 2009

   My sons share a room; they have for years. This is mostly because of the size of our house, but also we as parents believe that...
7. Monday Mom challenge: Schedule your mammogram!
   By Jen Klein on Oct 26, 2009

   You've put it off. You know you have. You know you should do it. It's just...uncomfortable. Really uncomfortable. But if you are 40...
8. Does your preschooler need tutoring?
   By Jen Klein on Oct 21, 2009

   When I opened my email the other day, I was stunned to see a solicitation for a "pre-writing" workshop for four and five year olds....
9. The lost art of shoe-tying
   By Jen Klein on Oct 20, 2009

   As I bent down to tie my daughter's shoe the other day, I realized it was about time for her to learn how to tie her shoes herself....
10. Monday mom challenge: Say Thank You to your kids
    By Jen Klein on Oct 19, 2009

    We all go through busy times as families - times when everyone has to pull together a little bit, give a little bit (or a lot), and...
11. Is your family running smoothly?
    By Jen Klein on Oct 14, 2009

    It's mid-October. The kids have been in school for a while, and hopefully are settled in. The big holiday season push will begin...
12. When your child is left out
    By Jen Klein on Oct 13, 2009

    It's a sad reality that at some point, your child will be left out of a gathering of other kids. Whether it's a birthday party or...
13. Your teenage son's brain....explained!
    By Jen Klein on Oct 12, 2009

    At a wedding over the summer I was talking to an old friend I haven't seen for years. Her children are older than ours, and I've...
14. Voice changes during puberty
    By Jen Klein on Oct 8, 2009

    Intellectually, I knew my son's voice was changing, that is was getting deeper. How could it not? He's a teenager now, stretching...
15. Why do you volunteer in the classroom?
    By Jen Klein on Oct 6, 2009

    With school budgets under ever increasing stress, and cuts happening in even the wealthiest of school districts, volunteering in the...
16. Monday Mom challenge: Time to plant bulbs
    By Jen Klein on Oct 5, 2009

    You've just - finally - hit your stride with the fall schedule. The kids are all settled into their routines and you've hit a...
17. Take time to appreciate a rainy morning
    By Jen Klein on Oct 2, 2009

    With the busy-ness of everyday family life, weekends are not the down time they once were. There's as much to do on a Sunday morning...
18. Teaching kids to do laundry
    By Jen Klein on Sep 30, 2009

    Laundry is one of those never ending tasks. No sooner do you get it all done, folded and put away do you have to do it all over...
19. Should you have another baby?
    By Jen Klein on Sep 29, 2009

    Even though my husband and have been out of the babymaking business for some time, and with the whole-hearted buy-in of both of us,...
20. Monday Mom challenge: Catch a child doing a good thing
    By Jen Klein on Sep 28, 2009

    When I logged in to Facebook the other day, I was pleasantly surprised to see a message from a local acquaintance. She was writing...