parenting styles

Children's Health

What kids fear at different ages & how to help them

New worries actually mean your child is growing more independent. 

Children's Health

49 phrases to calm an anxious child

Love and compassion are key to helping your child overcome anxious thoughts.

Baby Sleep Tips

How to survive the four-month sleep regression

You can't avoid the four-month sleep regression, but you can conquer it.

Parenting

5 things this SAHM learned from her working mom

1. Do what you love

Grandparents & Extended Families

6 common in-law conflicts after baby arrives: How to handle them

Including: How you can say “no,” how you can avoid alienating them and how you can be sure to stand up for yourself.

Motherly Stories

A dad is not a babysitter or a helper. He’s a parent.

Though I appreciate all he does, it is not exceptional. It is called being a parent.

Baby

5 Reasons to Put Baby Down

How to give yourself a baby-holding break.

Safety

3 easy ways to build water confidence with your child, according to a swim instructor

Read this before their next swim lesson, mama.

Parenting

3 ways to raise your toddler to be a ‘can-do’ kiddo

#2. Practice optimism and safe risk-taking. Wheeee!

Child Learn & Play

6 encouraging phrases to say to your child every day

Encourage respectful manners and happier kiddos with these simple tips.

Safety

What parents need to know about ‘dry drowning’ & infant water safety

2. Designate an official “water watcher.”

Parenting

How my son taught me to live in the moment

Being with my son and seeing the world for the first time (again) is a powerful reminder of mindfulness.

Motherly Stories

Your child doesn’t need a perfect mother—just a peaceful one

A “peaceful mama” isn’t a mama that is void of negative feelings.

Baby Sleep Tips

So, you want to sleep train

Demystifying the 4 most common sleep training methods for baby.

Parenting

#MomFails might be good for you

One mom shares 5 standards that she loosened up on after experiencing motherhood.