parenting styles

Mom & Dad

What's so extreme about Extreme Parenting?

The upcoming release of the new reality show Extreme Parenting will shine a light on hot-button parenting techniques like extended...

Parenting Tips & Advice

What is "clean" parenting, anyway?

If we’re honest, we’ve all had those moments at the end of a long day when we resort to less-than-stellar “dirty” parenting...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Practicing gratitude: Childhood exploration meets helicopter parenting

Memories of my childhood include plenty of unsupervised time for exploration and adventure. But my children are having a very...

Mom & Dad

Are you a free-spirited or a careless parent?

Does your mom or grandma say things like: “Those things weren’t around back when you were a baby” or “you played with toys that...

Parenting How-to

How to become a more easygoing mom

It's certainly OK to run a tight ship. But if your strict, competitive, overbearing parenting style is becoming detrimental to your...

Mom & Dad

Watching a parenting train wreck

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Even the most measured, thoughtful, positive parent goes through tough times and...

Parenting Tips & Advice

Book review: No Regrets Parenting

In his new book, No Regrets Parenting: Turning Long Days and Short Years into Cherished Moments with Your Kids, Harley Rotbart helps...

Parenting Tips & Advice

Celebrity parenting styles

We look to celebrities for the hottest fashion styles, glowing skin care tricks and the best fitness tips, but what about when it...

Parenting

What kind of mom will Beyoncé be?

Beyoncé is a mom! The singer and her husband Jay-Z welcomed a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter on Jan. 7, leaving us to wonder -- what...

Child Development & Health

5 Parenting "rules" to ditch in 2013

Tired parenting methods are so last year! Start the new year fresh by ditching tired parenting rules that you (and your children!)...

Parenting Tips & Advice

Good or bad parenting: Helicopter parenting

Helicopter parenting occurs when parents constantly interfere and interact in their children's lives. They are always there --...

Mom & Dad

Two people, two parenting styles

It’s 2010, not the 1950s, and that means for two-parent households, the trend toward co-parenting versus allowing -- or expecting --...

Mom & Dad

How to marry two parenting styles in one household

You may not realize how drastically you and your partner’s parenting styles differ until your children arrive in the world. When...

Mom & Dad

5 Parenting styles for a new generation

Gone are the days of describing parents as merely “strict” or “lenient.” Parenting styles now come with titles and definitions. Get...

Parenting Advice & Columns

5 tips for stress-less parenting

Are your kids driving you batty? Feeling mommy guilt about anything and everything to do with your children? Whether you have a...

Mom & Dad

Understanding your child's temperament

Families are made of a variety of personalities and temperaments, which can sometimes make relationships a little tricky. This is...

Mom & Dad

Effective parents

Parenting is definitely a subjective topic. We each have our own ideas about parenting techniques, discipline, scheduling,...

Mom & Dad

How not to be a helicopter parent

Helicopter parents -- ones who are knee deep in every school and life issue, leaving kids little room for their own problem solving...

Mom & Dad

6 Parenting rules to ignore

From the moment your child is conceived, it seems that everyone has parenting advice to offer. Following are six parenting rules you...

Mom & Dad

How to adjust your parenting style for your second child

Does the following scenario sound familiar? You had your first child, successfully navigated your way through a few years of...