My mom friends have all called me strict because my kids don’t have screens. Of any kind. We don’t do tablets or smartphones or streaming anything. If my kids want to watch something, it’s either a movie we got from the library or PBS Kids. Why? Because my husband and I had analog childhoods and […]
If you’re raising a kid in the digital age then you’ve likely experienced the comical discovery that your child has taken 700 selfies of their forehead after taking your phone when you weren’t looking. Or, if you’re me, your kid tapped enough wrong number combinations to disable your phone for a few hours. One San […]
When I was growing up in the 1980’s Barbie came in one size and color: white blonde girl with blue eyes and crazy distorted body proportions. Feminists the world over have spent years pointing at Barbie as an example of training young girls to have hypersexualized and unrealistic body ideals. Although it would take decades […]
Valentine’s Day used to be a day of heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and badly written but incredibly sweet poetry. But last year, it was forever changed when a teenaged shooter opened fire at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and wounding 14 others. Within days of the shooting, my […]
My two sons play with brightly colored plastic water pistols when it’s hot outside. For a long time, I was against gunplay but my family pressured me to “quit being such a whiny liberal,” so I relented and let my kids at least have water guns in the summer. But in the aftermath of the […]
The morning of Valentine’s Day 2018, I put my eight-year-old on the school bus and reminded him as I do every day to, “Be kind today, buddy. You never know who needs it, okay?” He rolled his eyes but hugged me anyway and stumbled to his seat as the bus lurched forward. A few hours […]
Teachers are monitoring lunch boxes and making sure parents know when lunch isn’t up to standard. But what standard and who decides?
Think it’s tough raising kids in your house? In honor of President’s Day, we’ve rounded up the most outrageous antics of First Kids in The White House.
Ellen, a registered psychologist, helps us find the best approach when our kids ask about Trump.
What are the proposed changes to the Paid Parental Leave Scheme and will they affect you?
Every so often, a news story pops up about a mum breastfeeding in public. You know the stories I mean: mum feeds child, people lose their minds because she refused to remove herself from public view and inflicted skin on unsuspecting members of the community. Confronting, I know. Breasts have, I’m pretty sure, been […]
Why are girls’ school uniforms so much fussier and more formal than boys’?
