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What’s the right age for a kid to get a phone? Emily Oster weighs in.

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It’s twelve. Happy Parenting! By Emily Oster

August 19, 2021 Books

How we measure our children against each other (and why we shouldn’t)

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Don’t tell the youngest he should eat nicely like his elder sister, just say you can see he’s playing with his food. By Lynn Berger

June 30, 2021 Books, Parenting Challenges

Excerpt: How to give your kids the gift of autonomy

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Parents who help their children too much leave their kids ill-prepared to be adults. By Michaeleen Doucleff

May 10, 2021 Books, Parenting Challenges

One thing strong kids do: they adapt to change

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Strong kids embrace the changes in their lives. They work on adapting to the things going on around them instead of resisting them. By Amy Morin

April 9, 2021 Books, Parenting Advice

Why is the cost of college so expensive?

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Many of us are or will be paying more for our children’s college education than our parents did for ours, what or who is actually responsible? By Ron Lieber

February 17, 2021 Books, Culture

Excerpt: How to help your teen be a (functioning) person

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Catherine Newman’s wonderful new book offers a guide to 65 hugely useful, super-important skills for teens and tweens.

May 19, 2020 Books, Culture, Family

What the women in the waiting room are thinking

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Every fertility journey is different. You never really know what somebody else is going through. By Amy Klein

April 9, 2020 Books, Family

Preparing our kids to thrive in an uncertain world

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When children feel pressured to perform well in the public realm, they have a hard time recognizing what really matters to them. By Dr. Madeline Levine

March 4, 2020 Books, Culture

My child wanted to be a boy

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I’m surprised by how many moms give me the thumbs-up for “letting” my daughter be a pirate. By Mimi Lemay

December 11, 2019 Books, Culture

How to help kids with grief when an adult relationship ends

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I didn’t have my therapist hat on when my son went through his grief—I was just his mom, muddling through it alongside him. By Lori Gottlieb

June 19, 2019 Books, Parenting Challenges

Learning how to prioritize my time in mid-life

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The mental space freed up by not giving a shit? It’s delicious. By Sophfronia Scott

April 24, 2019 Books, Culture

Why are girls more stressed out than boys?

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I now hear regularly about girls who are so fearful of disappointing their teachers that they skip sleep to do extra-credit work for points they don’t need. By Lisa Damour

February 11, 2019 Books, Culture, Family

Before and after my mother’s accident

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Time heals so much of what goes wrong in life, but the memory of what happened to Mum on that day still makes my body react. By Clover Stroud

November 12, 2018 Books

How to increase the joy in sibling relationships

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Make sure your children have time together without you. Encourage their collective independence. By KJ Dell’Antonia

July 26, 2018 Books, Family

Why we want our kids to make mistakes

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The goal isn’t to lecture your children but to kick-start their critical thinking. By Katherine Reynolds Lewis

July 9, 2018 Books, Culture

Punishment by weeding, a tale of fatherhood

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I’d tried to make my sons do various jobs over the years, all with disastrous results. By David McGlynn

June 15, 2018 Books, Family

Learning how to let your teens motivate themselves

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Coming to peace with the reality that you can’t make your kid do things is actually liberating. By William Stixrud and Ned Johnson

March 2, 2018 Books, Parenting Challenges

How to realize your son is not lazy

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Decades ago, boys who lacked motivation were called late bloomers. Today, we call them underachievers. By Adam Price

December 5, 2017 Books, Culture

The feminist’s guide to raising a little princess

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Unless we can retell the story in a relevant way, let’s put Cinderella to rest. By Devorah Blanchor

November 7, 2017 Books, Culture

Excerpt: Shonda Rhimes on the greeting cards mothers really need

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I don’t think it ever occurred to me how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible. By Shonda Rhimes

October 17, 2017 Books, Culture

How to handle it when IVF takes over your life

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More than my body and my schedule, IVF took over my mind.
By Belle Boggs

April 17, 2017 Books, Parenting Challenges

The myth of co-parenting

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It made me spitting mad, the way the daily duties of parenting and home ownership began to rest entirely on me.
By Hope Edelman

January 19, 2017 Books, Parenting Challenges

Motherwhelmed: the art, science and mysteries of motherhood

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Motherwhelmed is a graphic memoir about the tumultuous first years of a new mother’s life.
By Jessica Carew Kraft

November 15, 2016 Books

What the Dutch can teach us about our daughters and sex

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While American parents are talking to their daughters about the risks of sex, the Dutch are talking about the joys of intimacy.
By Peggy Orenstein

October 10, 2016 Books, Culture

Measuring the baby’s ears

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My unborn kid had a 1 in 214 chance of having Down syndrome. Those seemed like pretty good odds.
By Amy Silverman

August 30, 2016 Books, Parenting Challenges

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