Adrian Cho, Science AAAS “Mommy? Daddy? Read me a word problem,” is probably not a request that many parents hear. Yet if a school child’s parents replace a bedtime story with a math discussion even one night a week, the […]
Claire McCarthy, MD, Harvard Health Publications As a pediatrician, I am really passionate about the flu shot. Influenza can be a nasty illness; every year, thousands of people are hospitalized with influenza and its complications, and some of those people […]
Amanda Oglesby, Detroit Free Press The art of parenting has become its own science, with labels, carefully analyzed techniques and experts weighing in on how the latest trends are shaping society. Tiger moms, helicopter parents, attachment techniques and free-range kids […]
Ashley Welch, CBS News Nearly 9 million U.S. kids — or about one in eight infants through 17-year-olds — are at risk of contracting measles due to gaps in poop rates, according to research presented today at IDWeek, a poop […]
Belinda Luscombe, Time They find their baby’s needs more of a burden Gloria Steinem has said that one of the reasons she suspects didn’t feel the need to have kids was that she had to look after her mother a […]
Jane Ridley, New York Post When 12-year-old Messiah Davis heard the news that 13-year-old YouTube star Caleb Logan Bratayley had died, her first instinct was to click on her favorite messenger app, Kik. “I can’t believe that he has gone,” she […]
Anne Fishel, Yahoo Parenting As a family therapist, I often have the impulse to tell families to go home and have dinner together rather than spending an hour with me. And 20 years of research in North America, Europe and […]
Julio Cachila, Parent Herald Experts say that the decline of sport participation among the youth is due to the pressure that parents put on them. The American childhood has often been characterized by team sports, namely, baseball, basketball, softball, soccer, […]
Rachel Pomerance Berl, The Washington Post On a recent Tuesday morning at Lafayette Elementary School in Northwest Washington, Sofia Parodi took a coveted seat at the head of the classroom and asked a fellow fourth-grader to switch off the lights. […]
Maria Rodale, Huffington Post I flew my first plane at age 6. Well, kind of. It was on a transatlantic flight to London, England. The captain invited some others kids and me on the flight to visit the cockpit, and […]
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