Playtime Is Over!
Slate · 15 minThe modern demand to constantly pretend-play with our kids is exhausting. Is there a better way?
The modern demand to constantly pretend-play with our kids is exhausting. Is there a better way?
From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them.
Nell Frizzell on motherhood, aging, and the demands of the biological clock.
It’ll help them gain a critical skill—and get you out of the hot seat.
For young children, how we speak is often more important than what we say. Even ‘positive’ generalizations can lead children to adopt negative stereotypes.
When my older daughter was 9 1/2 years old and in fourth grade, she reserved a Percy Jackson book at her school library. After waiting weeks for her turn, she was thrilled when her name was finally called. Then, the boys in line behind her told her she should let one of them have it instead.
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. My husband and I both have full-time jobs and an 18-month-old son. I am pregnant with our second child, due in February.
Spotting patterns, trends, and formulas make our work (and life) easier. But I never thought I'd see someone unlocking the formula for the hardest job of all: raising super-successful children.
Want to raise successful kids? Start by backing the (heck) off.
And it made me a more engaged dad. At the beginning of Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy writes, “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” It’s a great quote, but it’s not true. Happy families are a bunch of weirdos. I know because we’re one of them.
Advice My Parents Gave Me: Go to college and major in what you love. Advice I Will Give My Kids: Go to college only if you’ll major in science, engineering, or money.
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. When I had my 3-year-old, my husband and I found ourselves very alone.
Want to raise successful kids? Start by backing the (heck) off. Hold that thought.
Glutton for punishment? Good, because we've rounded up some of the best puns for 2021 — to call them merely funny would be a gross punderstatement.
Many people across the world are still living under tough restrictions or lockdowns because of the pandemic, staying home as much as possible. This means that a lot of parents are spending more time than ever with their children. But how do you turn that time into a deeper relationship?
These are the real wizards of the literary world. Ms. Paul is the editor of the Book Review and the author of several books, including “How to Raise a Reader.” Her first picture book, “Rectangle Time,” with illustrations by Becky Cameron, is out this month.
All Work and No Pay is a series about women losing their jobs, and so much more. When schools resumed remotely in September, Erin and her husband Jesse had to decide which parent would stay home with their two kids.
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. My daughter Natalie is 3 years old and talks A LOT about every detail of our lives.
A few weeks ago Anna (4y) wanted to play with some packing material. It looked very messy to me, I didn’t expect she would clean it up, and I didn’t want to fight with her about cleaning it up.
As an older parent of young children, I feel that I am holding a big secret — my own mortality. “I’m rea—dy!” At 2:45 a.m., our 3-year-old, Nathaniel, yells out like an excited rooster heralding the day. My wife, Lisa, and I take turns attending to these middle-of-the-night greetings.
If there's been a theme to the technology industry's plans to reform education, it's that every child should learn to code. This is supposed to allow children to better adapt to a world where computers are omnipresent.
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. My 16-year-old is basically writing porn.
Let me be clear: I’m baby. You are also baby. We are all baby, except for this guy, who is very clearly not baby, whatever arguments he might make to the contrary.
I teach sex ed. In light of a recent report on exploitation of children on the site Pornhub, I have some talking points for parents.
Dragging pandemic policy into the culture war has been a disaster for the U.S., particularly its children.