How To Make Parenting Easier

Teens face dating violence at alarming rates — but don't always have the experience to know what to do. Adults play a critical role in supporting them by talking frankly about relationships and taking action when a teen needs help.

1. When you get a tough question, listen for what the child is 2. Give them facts, but at a pace they can manage. 3. "That's a great question.

1. Make chores the fun activity of the day. · 2. Welcome the 30-pound troll trying to stop you from finishing the chore.

Research suggests kids who have more freedom and independence grow up to be less anxious and depressed.

What do you wish you'd known before becoming a parent? 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.

Rates of anxiety and depression among teens in the U.S. have been rising for years.

There's no other way to put it: Maria de los Angeles Tun Burgos is a supermom.

Have you ever paid your kid for good grades? Have you driven to school to drop off a forgotten assignment? Have you done a college student's laundry? What about coming along to Junior's first job interview?

Six months ago, Melissa Nichols brought her baby girl, Arlo, home from the hospital. And she immediately had a secret.

Back in the early 1990s, psychologist Suzanne Gaskins was living in a small Maya village near Valladolid, Yucatán, when she struck up a conversation with two sisters, ages 7 and 9.

Experts will tell you that if you want to raise a kid who eats just about everything, you should feed them what you eat — assuming you're eating a varied, healthy diet. It's what most cultures have done for most of human history.

Two experts believe that six C's form a framework that can help parents guide kids as they grow.

It's summer vacation season again and many families will be lucky enough to be heading off for at least a few days.

You should model reading, make reading pleasurable, read aloud to your kid in situations that are warm and create positive associations.

These psychologists wanted to see how well kids pay attention — even if they don't have to. Here's what they did.

Parents in Ghana's capital city have embraced preschool as a way to vault their kids into a better future. But the children aren't necessarily learning.

The number stay-at-home fathers in the U.S. has risen steadily in recent decades, from an estimated million or so in 1984 to roughly twice that in 2014.

Goats and Soda An experimental program in Rwanda tried to teach men to do more chores, listen to their wife instead of bossing her around and get involved in raising the kids.

Child death was a fact of life, in the United States in 1915, before the U.S. Children’s Bureau was established. One in five African American babies died before their first birthday, says historian Molly Ladd-Taylor, as did one in 10 white infants.

Researchers studying the Hadza in Tanzania found that grandmas were more important to child survival than fathers.

A new theory claims that shared child care and food were the original secrets of our species' success.

The "carpenter" thinks that his or her child can be molded. The "gardener" is less concerned about controlling who the child will become and instead provides a protected space to explore.

A growing number of schools are offering training for emotional and social skills that can benefit kids in school and throughout their life.

This is Rene Schimmel and her son, Sam, celebrating her master's degree. She has worked to give Sam a Native Alaskan identity, while struggling herself w/ the lingering effects of cultural destruction that traumatized previous generations of their family.

There may be other ways — surprising ways — in which music plays a role in raising a human.

Many experts on kids and technology are also parents. Here's how they regulate screen time at home.

Your Turn: What Do You Wish You'd Known Before Becoming A Parent?

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Part of a parent's job is to help kids do their best, but pushing too hard can backfire. Research shows kids in high-achieving communities are at higher risk of anxiety, depression and substance use. How parents can learn to back off.