Parenting

Good parenting requires empathy, compassion and the willingness to make some of your needs secondary — essentially, many of the traits that you wouldn't find in a narcissist.

The question Despite having no issues in my marriage, I’m pretty sure I’m entering into the preparatory stages of a highly destructive affair. I’m a man in my 40s with a loving wife and four young children.

In “Who’s Raising the Kids?” Susan Linn’s searing indictment of corporate greed, tech companies targeting children are rivaled only by the lawmakers who let them get away with it. WHO’S RAISING THE KIDS? Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children, by Susan Linn

I have two teenage daughters with my ex-husband. We have been divorced for nearly nine years and have joint custody. However, my daughters have decided to live with him permanently and his girlfriend rather than my husband and me. He has no rules. I have rules and boundaries.

Parenting is challenging, especially in today's post-pandemic world. It certainly wasn't easy raising my own three daughters. I don't claim all the credit for their successes, but all three grew up to be highly accomplished people.

Icame to research the emotional neglect of children by accident. More than a decade ago, I wrote my master’s thesis on the relationship between the personal and professional lives of psychotherapists.

As a parent, I do a lot of math in my head. I make constant calculations about how many ounces of milk is enough or too much, try and negotiate if my toddler is 23-37 pounds for the size-four diapers or 37 pounds or more for the size up.

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Recently, my kids have started attending a play group.

Wouldn't it be nice if your kid grew up to become an entrepreneur? As research for my book, "Raising an Entrepreneur," I interviewed 70 parents who raised highly successful adults about how they helped their children achieve their dreams.

As kids return to school, the focus on math, science, and reading has been sidelined by campaigns mounted in the name of “parents’ rights.

For the foreseeable future, parents and educators will be grappling with this polarizing question: What, if anything, should prepubescent public-school students be taught about gender identity?

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. I am getting married soon. My family asked me to make my cousin one of my groomsmen, so I did.

The things that parents say to their kids can either encourage and give them confidence, or lower their self-esteem and hold them back in life.

Since launching a direct-to-follower counseling practice in early 2020, Dr. Becky Kennedy — a clinical psychologist living in Manhattan and mother of three — has developed a reputation as the “parenting whisperer” of Instagram.

It’s not that there aren’t plenty of kids films — just the opposite. Right now, parents are swimming in it. In fact, the quantity is part of the problem.