Back in the day, summer vacation meant camp, hanging out with other kids, swimming in public pools, and theme parks. This summer, on the other hand, looks like lots of unstructured time, and for most...

If you're a parent, you already know that kids don't do very well with change. Whether it's an unexpected vegetable at dinner or a new baby in the house, you're liable to be confronted with a...

In my family, we have (unfortunately) experienced a lot of cancer. Right after I finished chemo, my mom was diagnosed with her second bout of breast cancer. She'd never been through chemo before, and because I'd...

Help Kids Cope with Divorce Divorce is one of the most stressful times in a person's life, and knowing how to be a good friend to someone going through a divorce can be hard, especially...

When my daughter was small, I amassed quite a library of books for anxious toddlers. A few of them are great, but most of them were less than unhelpful. Some of the better-known books (like the...

Parenthood is more of a learning experience than I ever could have imagined. There’s no instruction manual, no road map. It’s like being thrown off a cliff into the ocean, and being told that you...

As adults, we know what responsibility is - after all, we wake up every morning with a household to take care of and bills to pay. Kids, on the other hand, get to play all...