Pamela Druckerman’s Favorite ‘French Parenting’ Advice
Why talk more about "French parenting"? Because in the outcome-oriented world of the American parent, there's something to be learned from an approach that considers the quality of the years you spend...
View ArticleAre Body and Sex Education Books for Parents, or Kids?
Books written for teenagers and preteens about puberty sell — but are they actually read?
View ArticleWhen Parents Kill Parents in the Name of Literature
We weren’t very far into "Little House on the Prairie" when it hit me: Ma was kind of a bummer.
View Article9 Novels Both Girls and Boys Can Love
Tired of "boy books" and "girl books?" Nine books (or series) that both the boys and girls in my family have enjoyed.
View ArticleStudents Reading E-Books Are Losing Out, Study Suggests
Researchers find that students’ reading comprehension was lower when they read books on electronic devices.
View ArticleBooks to Share on Mother’s Day
Essays, memoir, fiction and humor to replace (or accompany) that vase of flowers.
View ArticleA Big Pile of Fantastic Ideas to Get Kids Outside Making and Doing This Summer
A different kind of summer reading: books and project links to inspire children to head outside and make, do and create.
View ArticleRead to a Tiny Baby? Yes
The American Academy of Pediatrics now advises doctors to recommend reading to infants, and for good reason. Reading is a habit best formed early.
View ArticleTelling the Kids: ‘We’re Moving.’
Telling my children we were moving from Atlanta to Nashville was easier than I thought it would be. Getting over worrying about how the move would affect them was not.
View ArticleWanted: Books for Middle Schoolers Who Aren’t Yet ‘Teens’
“People suddenly assume my seventh grader has become a self-obsessed jerk, lost in her iPhone and touching up her lip gloss. Nothing could be further from the truth. She wants great books, but not...
View ArticleQuandary: Books for Readers Whose Skills Lag Behind Their Age
Looking for books and strategies to help a behind-the-curve reader find books that interest her, and encourage her to read and improve.
View ArticleCharities That Inspire Kids: The African Library Project
Two families describe the fun they've had working with the African Library Project, which works with donors to start school libraries in Africa.
View ArticleDo Your Children Know How Much It Costs to Support Your Family?
If you want your children to have any idea what it takes financially to take care of a family, or of themselves, it starts by letting them in on what it takes to support the family they’re a part of now.
View ArticleChildhood Heroes: Once Self-Made, Now to the Manner Born
Once, the very act of surviving hardship shaped a hero. Now, the powerful, from "Frozen's" Elsa to "The Incredibles," are to the manor born. That's a striking cultural shift.
View ArticleShelf, iPad, Bed Table: Reading, January 2015
What I bought, what I read, what I thought I'd read and what I put down and never picked back up this January.
View ArticleMrs. Piggle Wiggle, Still Rescuing Parents
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's "cures" manage to unite reading parents and children in mocking common childhood faults.
View ArticleWhat Not to Worry About in Teaching Young Children to Read
Starting reading instruction early doesn’t yield an advantage to comprehension.
View ArticleRaising Teenagers: Inevitably a Problem?
Teenagers need to become the centers of their own stories. For the writing parent, is that always a loss?
View ArticleShelf, iPad, Bed Table: Reading, March 2015
A getaway weekend means a rare chance to read novels.
View ArticleAs a Daughter Becomes a Teenager, a Mother Becomes a Vampire Novelist
Why would anyone write nine full-length vampire novels that only one person will ever read?
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