parenting
No Matter How Old You Get, You'll Always Be Someone's Child
When Grey’s Anatomy came out, I watched the whole series for entertainment purposes. The series is mainly about the heart-wrenching experiences and life-changing decisions surgical interns face, along...
How To Cope When Your Child Has Cancer
Having your child diagnosed with cancer is shocking, devastating, and probably the most painful reality for any parent to accept. Your whole world rips apart, and you begin to fear the worst. What’s m...
Researchers Asked ‘Is It Bad To Lie To A Child?’
This time of year, especially, parents begin to debate whether or not it's OK to lie to kids. The holidays are filled with fairy tales which parents hold up as truths for their little ones, and that c...
What To Do If Your Child Doesn't Like Drinking Water
Look, as parents, one of the biggest struggles many of us face is getting our kids to do the things we KNOW they need to do, but they don't want to do. Kids need sleep, right? Try telling a 2-year old...
How Can I Handle My Child's Constant Requests For Expensive Things?
With the holidays just around the corner, kids everywhere are finalizing their gift lists, hoping that their parents (or Santa, if your family participates) come through on the big stuff. This is alwa...
How To Predict Your Child's Future Height
From the moment our kids are born, we spend a significant amount of time tracking their growth and development. From weight checks to check-ups, it's our job to make sure they're growing and progressi...
Helping Your Child Deal With A Traumatic Disaster
There's nothing that a parent wants more than to keep their child safe, but in reality, it's impossible for you to cover them with your constant protection. For the most part, they come home unscathed...
Should I Pay My Child For Good Grades?
Not all will be so willing to admit it, but we'd that a pretty good percentage of parents have used bribery (in some form or another) to get their kids to do something. Maybe it's the promise of a tre...
Stop Asking When I'm Having Another Kid, OK?
Have you ever gotten that question, from well-intentioned family members, "When are you going to have another baby?" A little part of you feels like they just stepped all over your boundaries, and you...
What Ages Are Tweens & What Unique Challenges Do They Face?
When you become a parent, you become very familiar with all the different stages of childhood and development your kids will go through. The baby stage, toddler stage, preschool and school-age stage. ...
My Kid Used A Racial Slur Toward Another Child, Here's How I Reacted
I have always hoped that my son would learn that racism was unacceptable, from my actions and interactions with people of different races. Yet, it appears I had a color-blind way of thinking. I honest...
10 Ways To Stop Meltdowns On Christmas
The Christmas holiday can be super stressful, especially when there are kids involved. Kids can make everything more stressful, from shopping to going to a family members' house, no task is easily don...
Help! I Have A Child Who Bites
Everyone has feelings; it's part of our human condition. One of these feelings is aggression. As adults, we may feel this, but for the most part, know that it needs to be handled safely. So, for some,...
How To Discuss Vaping And Its Dangers With Your Children
As parents, we have a lot on our plates when it comes to stuff to worry about, right? When our kids are babies, we worry about their sleep schedule and how well they're eating. As they become toddlers...
Parenting Advice Podcast Asks Parents To ‘Raise Good Kids Not A**Holes’
Lemonada is a podcast network run by women who just want to tell it like it is. Two women who connected through a loss, came together to build this easy going podcast series. So it's no surprise there...
Parents’ Views On Higher Education Affects The Way Kids Perceive School
It's not always easy to get your kids to love school, right? Some kids are all in and love every moment, from the first time they step into a classroom till that big walk across the stage, diploma in ...
Study Finds Early Exposure To Digital Devices Links To Restless Sleep And EBD
As we become more and more entwined in the digital world, it starts to become a part of our every day life. And as parents, you've likely noticed it becoming a part of your kids' daily lives, too. Fro...
Researchers Say 1 in 4 Kids Have A Problematic Relationship With Their Phones
According to research, one in four young kids have displayed an unhealthy attachment to their phones. This behavior has shown to be problematic, especially because it may lead to mental health issues....
My Child Was Bullied At School & I Couldn't Just Sit Back And Watch It Happen
My fourth-grader always looked forward to having her violin lessons every Wednesday, because she enjoyed the lessons and was becoming very skilled at playing the violin. Therefore, you can imagine jus...