parenting

Let these globe-trotting lessons in potty training flush your parental worries away

By Alma Gottlieb, The Conversation

An anthropologist explores why there’s no one-size-fits-all model of child-rearing advice for all the world’s parents.

Child care choices limited for those working outside 9-to-5

By Sally Ho, Associated Press

Parents who work outside traditional business hours are often lost in the national conversation around child care.

6 tips to help your kids through a checkout candy meltdown, and learn a financial lesson as well

By Beth Kobliner

Your child doesn’t have to be a monk, shunning all material goods. She’s just got to know the tricks to help her save those dollars for something she really wants.

Column: The 5Cs to follow when setting your kids’ allowance

By Beth Kobliner

Allowance is a fine, practical way to dole out money to your kids, as long as you follow these five rules.

Column: Why you should tell your kids tragic stories this holiday season

By Marshall Duke, Emory University

In every culture that anthropologists have ever studied, people tell stories. Families most frequently tell stories around the time of vacations, family reunions, (sadly) funerals, Thanksgiving and, of course, the family-oriented winter holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

Half of all U.S. women say they want to have a child, survey reveals

By Laura Santhanam

Between 2013 and 2015, half of nearly 6,000 women age 15 to 44 said they plan to have children, according to the National Survey of Family Growth, considered the gold standard for surveys about family planning in the United States.

Parents’ problem: Watch debate with kids, risk awkward talk

By Kristen Wyatt, Associated Press

DENVER — Parents watching Sunday night's presidential debate with their children faced a dilemma: Let their kids witness political history or send them to bed early to avoid an awkward conversation?…

Why is the risk of death during pregnancy going up in the U.S.?

By Michael Ollove, Stateline

The 15-year trend in the U.S. not only runs counter to the worldwide rate, but to that in most other industrialized countries.

Column: Hey teachers, please stop using behavior charts. Here’s why

By Wendy Thomas Russell

You know what I’m talking about, right? Those color-coded charts, using cards or clothes pins or Popsicle sticks to represent each child in the class. It’s high time behavior charts themselves got moved down to “a bad color” and expelled…