Parenting
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It’s Saturday, and Mom is wearily unloading groceries – a chore she’s performed hundreds of times. Meanwhile, Dad drives twelve-year-old…
Gender incongruence, or gender nonconforming, a conflict between a person’s physical or assigned gender and the gender with which that…
When summer comes around with its tantalizing warm days, both parents and children breathe a sigh of relief. Everyone deserves…
Question: My second-grader loves reading e-books far more than print books because they have so many fun, interactive features. Are…
In this heartfelt letter, a father tells his soon to be teenage daughter what he hopes she carries into adulthood: that she is capable, loved no matter what and ready to learn the skills she’ll need to thrive on her own.
Look around any grocery store across the country and you’ll find preschoolers having full-blown temper tantrums, young children yelling at…
With the cost of living on the rise, parents have become more aware of the need to raise financially savvy…
Read what parents are saying when they answered this month’s PARENT INPUT question on Washington Parent’s Facebook page. How do…
For many kids, organized sports aren’t much fun anymore. Overbearing parents, over-the-top coaches and overzealous competition are frequent images associated…
Do you find yourself driving your kids’ lunches, forgotten homework or permission slips to school? Do you wake up your…
There is no better way to spend a winter’s day than swooshing down a sledding hill with friends and family.…
Social connection – the sense of being understood and genuinely belonging within a group – has been identified as a…
As you read the local paper, or watch the news, there are ample people bemoaning the loss of manners in…
It’s a scene that rattles new parents and frustrates seasoned ones: your child screams from his bedroom in the middle…
Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., is co-author with Daniel J. Siegel of the best-selling book “The Whole Brain Child” and, more…
Winter is a quiet time for reflection. As the embers of holiday cheer fade, it allows us to see the…
