Parenting - Everyday Family (Page 4)

Valentine's Day as a Family Thing, Not a Couples Thing

For most of my twenties, Valentine's Day was a referendum on my relationship status, and it carried more

There's a specific kind of dread that arrives when the first kid spikes a fever on a Sunday

For years my mornings had a recurring villain, and it was the lunchbox. Somewhere between the toothbrushing and the lost

The Norman Rockwell version of family dinner — everyone at the table, candles, the dog hopeful underfoot — survived in our house

Somewhere around second grade, the after-school worksheet stopped being a worksheet and started being a referendum on my parenting. My

"I'm bored" hits a specific nerve in parents, somewhere between guilt and irritation, and the reflex

The morning my daughter wrapped both arms and legs around my thigh at the daycare door and wailed like I

Nothing humbles a parent quite like a full-body tantrum in the cereal aisle while a stranger watches you fail in

There was a stretch where every school morning ended with me yelling up the stairs, a kid crying about a

We started allowance the year our oldest asked, in the checkout line at Target, why she couldn't just

Every January 1st I make a beautiful new family routine, and every January 4th it's in the trash

The year we tried to keep our kids up until midnight, we ended up with two overtired children sobbing on