raising kids

Parenting How-to

How to teach your kids to be grateful

We live in a material world, and unfortunately many of us spoil our kids. Parents want to give their children more than they had...

Super Mom Tips

What a son needs from Mom

The mother-son relationship can be complex but it can also be extremely rewarding. While a father’s role in a boy’s life is a little...

Child Development & Health

Spoiled rotten: Why you shouldn't coddle your kids

Spoiled kids often develop into self-absorbed adults with a lack of self-control and a major sense of entitlement. No matter if your...

Mom & Dad

Moms on parenting boys

If you pictured yourself with girls and saw your future filled with hair bows and frilly dresses, but instead were blessed with bow...

Children's School & Education

How to parent a gifted child

Statistically, most children are not “gifted.” While they are always exceptional to us , they’re probably not exceptional to the...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Raise a truly happy child

Our lives are centered on our children, and we would do anything to make them happy. Can we give them what they need to find true...

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...

School Age Kids

The downside to having a smart kid

Raising an academic overachieving child can be both invigorating and exhausting. When children set their own bar extremely high, how...

Mom & Dad

Are middle-class parents enablers?

The American model of raising children, where kids come first in every regard, is spoiling them.This may not be a novel idea, but...

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

Signs you're too close to your child

Parenting is never easy. Knowing that the decisions we make on a daily basis will forever impact our children is a stressful -- and...

Having a Baby

Is attachment parenting a prison? Erica Jong thinks so

Writer Erica Jong compares Attachment Parenting to prison for mothers expected to do it all. Where do you side in the debate?

Parenting Advice & Columns

How to determine your parenting style before baby arrives

Is it possible to determine what your parenting style will be before baby arrives? Like a birth plan, your initial ideas of...

Having a Baby

Is attachment parenting right for you?

As parents, we are always looking for strategies to help us do our jobs better. While there are plenty of advice books, coaches and...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Teach kids to have an open mind

"Keep an open mind," I say to my kids. Whether it's over a new theatrical production, some item of clothing I've brought home for...