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By Mia Quagliarello

Cool stuff for kids and parenting news.

Take time out to enjoy the parenting process
thenational.ae
It goes without saying that your children are a daily delight, giving you a reason to smile and feel glad every single day. Family life should be a …
Why Are Kids Impatient, Bored, Friendless, and Entitled?
deeprootsathome.com
As we know, the brain is malleable. Through environment, we can make the brain “stronger” or make it “weaker”. I truly believe that, despite all our …
Instagram’s “digital kidnappers” are stealing children’s photos and making up new lives
Quartz
In the grand scheme of human history, the baby photo is a pretty new invention, but now that smart phones are ubiquitous, the first years of today’s children are better documented than any other generation’s.
Why It's So Hard to Be a Working Mom. Even at Facebook.
WIRED - Eliza Khuner
I knew from the day I started at Facebook that I would have to make a choice. I was five months pregnant and raising two young boys. Balancing …
What Is the Future of Getting Kids to Soccer Practice?
The Atlantic - Joe Pinsker
A slew of small, Uber-like companies have launched in recent years, offering parents a way to outsource their daily driving. If only children were allowed to drive, they could get from home to school piano
I Didn’t Lean In. I Pushed Back.
medium.com
Jenny StefanottiBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Oct 14, 2018 This is a long post describing my struggles over the past eight years as a career-oriented …
Sex and drugs and self-control: how the teen brain navigates risk
nature.com - Kerri Smith
It’s not just about rebellion. Neuroscience is revealing adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour. Cole Skinner was hanging …
What Neil Patrick Harris Tells His Kids to Say to Bullies at School
InStyle - Alexandra Whittaker
Neil Patrick Harris's family really likes peanut butter. Perhaps that's not the opening statement you expected to read, but it absolutely applies to …
Your child's social skills in kindergarten are more important than their academics
Motherly - Amanda Morgan
Parents of young children tend to worry a lot about whether or not their kids are making adequate gains as they launch into their academic …
10 Parents on Their Favorite Freezer Aisle Finds for Dinner
The Kitchn - Stacie Billis
The freezer is making a well-deserved comeback, although savvy — or just plain busy — home cooks may scoff at the idea of it being a "return" to …
25 Children’s Books That Inspire Empathy
mothermag.com - Sara Langer
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. And that ability is not something we are born with, it is a characteristic we …
Your Best Parenting Advice: From Meddling Parents To Poop Management
NPR - Malaka Gharib
What do you wish you'd known before becoming a parent? In May, we asked our audience this question at the start of How To Raise A Human, our month-long special series on how to make parenting easier. than
Raising Kids Who Want To Read — Even During The Summer
NPR - Cory Turner
This piece combines two interviews from 2015 and 2016. You sneak them into backpacks and let them commingle with the video games (hoping some of the latter's appeal will rub off). You lay them around kids'
The Overprotected American Child
The Wall Street Journal. - Andrea Petersen
Why not let them walk to school alone? Parents and communities are figuring out ways to give their children more independence—and it just may help them to become less anxious, more self-reliant adults
We only have 18 summers together with our kids
Motherly - Karell Roxas
Summer is upon us and my mind is already whirling with all the exciting plans I'm going to do with my toddler. We're going to go to the zoo, and the …
Raising a multilingual family is hard – what makes it work?
aeon.co - Olga Mecking
Parents have many reasons for raising their children with multiple languages. Some hope for better career opportunities for their offspring, while …
5 Golden Rules for Raising Mentally Strong Kids
Inc Magazine - By Amy Morin
Give your kids the skills they'll need to tackle life's toughest challenges head-on. When my first book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do, hit the shelves, readers kept asking me the same question
What's Going On In Your Child's Brain When You Read Them A Story?
NPR - Anya Kamenetz
"I want The Three Bears!" These days parents, caregivers and teachers have lots of options when it comes to fulfilling that request. You can read a picture book, put on a cartoon, play an audiobook, or
🔥🔥🔥 Photos of the Fabulous Kids of RuPaul's Drag Convention
VICE - Jamie Lee Curtis Taete
"I've been doing drag since I was two. I would take my mom's towels and bed sheets and anything I could get my hands on and turn them into savage outfits, yaas." When I was a kid, all I wanted was girl
This Is How You Teach Kids About Consent | HuffPost Life
HuffPost
I Taught My Son How Not to Be a Rapist
Harper's BAZAAR - By Amy Hatvany
One brave mother learns how to talk to her teenage son about consent. It's a normal Sunday afternoon. After brunch, my 14-year-old son and I curl up on the couch to read while my husband works on a project
5 Great Places to Stash Books Around Your Home to Encourage Reading
Brightly - by Lindsay Barrett
Are you as infatuated as I am with the Pinterest boards full of adorable kids’ reading nooks? My real-life efforts to create one resulted in my …
How to Introduce Your Kid to Studio Ghibli
Lifehacker - Sea Chapman
Studio Ghibli films have been a touchstone in my life for years. They’re artistic masterpieces, featuring a stunning attention to detail. The films …
Top 7 Science Websites for Kids
Verywell - Christy Matte
Websites can give kids a great introduction to science, and there are some wonderful kid-friendly science websites to check out. Not only do kids …
Boundaries, routines and early bedtimes: 13 habits that raise well-adjusted kids
lovewhatmatters.com - - Apr 05, 2018
I keep seeing posts about “entitled kids” making the rounds lately. In fact, you don’t have to look hard before you see things written about how …
How to Raise Grateful Children
Heleo - Written by Sheryl Ziegler
“I urge people to tell their kids their stories of both success and failure, and to express kindness and appreciation daily—it really does go a long …
Have Your Kid Write an Angry Letter to Defuse a Tantrum
Lifehacker - Michelle Woo
The most effective tool for staving off a tantrum? No, it’s not YouTube Kids as a distraction, or ice cream as a bribery offer, or a shower as a …
Here's a Better Way to Bathe Your Newborn
Lifehacker - Michelle Woo
In movies, immediately after a mother gives birth, a nurse places a pristine newborn in her arms. In real life, however, babies usually look more …