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Parenting Advice for a Difficult Child
For a defiant child, or any with child behavior problems, it's difficult not to be disappointed. Acknowledge the grief with tools from Empowering Parents.
5 things parents can do to boost a child's self-confidence
Raising confident kids is a balancing act. Two childhood development experts reveal how to navigate it.
Raise a Child Who Loves Life
Can you actually teach your kid to laugh often, be an optimist, and enjoy every day? Research says yes.
Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and fam...
Warren Buffett Wants to Help Your Child Start a Small Business This Summer
Here are some kid-friendly business ideas and how make them successful.
How to Control Your Emotions During a Difficult Conversation
Parents Of Successful Kids Do These 10 Things In Common, Science Finds
Successful parenting produces successful kids. Parents who produce prize prodigies have several things in common.
Our Earliest Ideas of Sex Are Stupid and Beautiful
When I was 10 years old, I knew both very little about sex and also more than I should have. I hadn’t had “the talk” with my parents yet, and sex hadn’t been covered in school. But I knew that the general idea of sex meant a penis going inside a vagina—my world, as is true for the majority of kids in America, was very heterocentric—and that, when there was kissing on TV, I felt what my friends and I called “a tingle…
How to End the Child-Care Crisis
A child’s first 1,000 days are a time to be seized.
10 Tips for Foster Parents
The need for foster parents is constant. There are always children in need of loving and safe foster parents to help them heal from circumstances beyond their control. By entering into the world of foster care parenting, you are giving a child a gift that cannot adequately be described through words. A similar wordlessness arises […]
10 Things to Do When a Foster Child Is Returning Home
What do you do when a foster child is returning home? If you’ve had a foster child in your home for any length of time, you know how easy it is for foster parents to get attached. However, since reunification is always the original goal of foster care, what can a foster parent do when […]
The Facts about Kids and the Danger of Drowning
Safe Kids uncovers 4 misconceptions many parents have about preventing children from drowning and offers water safety tips.
Who's more stressed by parenting
With parenting, one spouse tends to carry the load of chores and child care while the other spends more play time with kids
