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Be a Role Model: Find a Healthy Balance with Media and Technology
Young kids learn how to use technology by watching their parents, so model healthy habits early by balancing media time with real time. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.
How Can Schools Tap Into Parent Power For the Good of Students?
A program pays teachers to visit students at home and meet with their family. The home visits have helped parents become better-informed advocates for their kids and stronger allies with teachers.
Dyslexia: The Learning Disability That Must Not Be Named
Many parents and teachers report that schools won't use the word dyslexia. Why might this be? And what is the Department of Education doing about it?
What Do Grown Children Owe Their Terrible, Abusive Parents?
What do we owe our tormentors? It’s a question that haunts those who had childhoods marked by years of neglect and deprivation, or of psychological, ph ...
Helping Young Children Learn to Make Friends
With school starting up again, it’s important that parents think about ways they can help their children succeed not only academically, but also socially.
Should Kids Have Cell Phones?
Do cell phones make kids safer — or more vulnerable? Most parents get kids phones because they seem like a way to keep children safe and connected. After all, with a cell phone, your child can contact you whenever he needs you. Also, you should be able to reach your child (assuming, of course, that she hasn’t lost the cell phone, buried it in a backpack, lent it to a friend, forgotten to turn the ringer on, or decided to ignore it when…
Parent Guide to Bullying
Bullying is a main source of violence in school. Parents play a vital role in recognizing signs, supporting courage, and helping their child.
Looking for Some Parenting Advice? Here are 5 Websites for Latina Moms
While moms love their children no matter what language they speak, different cultures face different challenges when it comes to parenting.
The benefits of slow parenting
There will come a time, I realized, when my 5 -year-old Max will no longer want to snuggle with me. How did my baby get so big? I felt panicky at thought that time was flying by so fast. I lay awake later that night wondering if there was anything my husband and I could do to slow our lives down.
Parent Teacher Communication: Dos and Don'ts
Setting up good parent-teacher communication is instrumental to your child's school success. Here's how to team up with your kid's teacher.
5 Ways Parents Can Support STEM Learning
By Sarah Cornelius - Take a look at these five simple tips to engage your child in STEM learning outside of the classroom.
Survey Finds Half of Parents Struggle With Their Children's Homework
A new survey finds almost 50 percent of parents struggle to help their children with their homework.
Kids cost parents most when they're adults
You think diapers and strollers are costly? Just wait until the little darlings turn 18
Diapers or Food? A Choice No Parent Should Have to Make
If you had to choose between buying diapers for your newborn child or paying this month's rent, what choice would you make?<br>Working families in America ...
17 Kid Inflicted Injuries New Parents Know All Too Well
Pound for pound kids are the most dangerous people on the planet.
7 Things You Don't Know About A Special Needs Parent
About 6 million kids in America receive special education , according to...
Parents of struggling middle-schooler: ‘Should we let her fail?’
The first thing is to find out what is causing her behavior.
Parenting Tips: Talking About Sex, Helping Your Sexually Active Teen Be Safe
Parents - By the age of 19, seven out of 10 teens have had sexual intercourse. As a parent, we need to be as loving as possible when we learn or suspect that...
Can 2 Parents, 2 Kids Live on Minimum Wage? Not Even Close: Report
No matter where they live in the United States, minimum wage workers with kids earn far less than they need to make ends meet, a new report shows.
