Examines replacing phone checking with physical-book reading around babies and children under two.
A focused discipline question on how parents respond when a child says “I hate you.”
Tackles how to handle one teen’s special opportunity when it could hurt a sibling.
Offers a candid toddler-and-puppy reality check for families considering adding a dog.
Invites practical solutions for dealing with children’s repeatedly disappearing or disliked books.
A specific toddler clothing-refusal problem: getting a child who rejects bottoms dressed.
A parent of twins argues from experience that festivals can work for families, challenging child-free assumptions about shared public events.
Ignore the party poopers who say toddlers spoil the fun. I’ve braved the raves with my twins – and I’ve seen how families add to the magic of events The woman I used to be died the day I gave birth to twins. That life – full of spontaneous travel, impulsive decisions and a decorated social calendar – evaporated, giving way to a blank canvas of motherhood and two glorious little human beings. While I was inside that summer, many of my friends continued on their child-free paths. They posted pict…