Parenting - Everyday Family (Page 5)

New Year's Eve With Kids Who Can't Make It to Midnight

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

The week between Christmas and New Year's is a strange, formless stretch where nobody knows what day it

Our best holiday tradition cost almost nothing and started by accident. One December a snowstorm canceled everything we'd

The first time my son melted down at his grandparents' house on Christmas Eve, I was mortified. He'

Every parent knows the stall. The water request. The second water request. The sudden urgent need to discuss whether sharks

By day three of winter break, my living room looked like a Target seasonal aisle exploded, and my seven-year-old had

One Christmas morning I watched my daughter open her eighth gift, glance at it for under three seconds, and immediately

I have tried, no exaggeration, six different family calendar systems, and five of them collapsed within a month. The beautiful

I used to be the mom hissing "what do you say?" at my kid over a birthday gift

We tried to potty train my second kid three separate times before it took, and the first two attempts were

My son would choose a screen over a book every single time if I let the choice be that bare,

Nobody warns you that kids get expensive in lumps, not in a smooth upward line. For years our spending on