In front of the wood-burning stove, well into winter, we began our typical summer vacation daydreaming.
In front of the wood-burning stove, well into winter, we began our typical summer vacation daydreaming. |
In a way, summer vacation reminds me of giving birth. When it's over, I forget the difficult parts and look forward to the next one. |
Summertime can bring a variety of opportunities to connect with our children and enjoy new experiences together. Here are three ways my family deepens our connections with one another during the summertime... |
I loved my childhood summer vacations, but what is it like for parents? |
One of the best things about summer vacation for children who attend traditional school is that there is no fixed schedule. |
This Father's Day, we meet Thiago Queiroz, a dad who has been absolutely on fire for supporting other fathers in his native Brazil since his oldest of 4 children was born a decade ago. |
Reconnecting after being apart, whether for an hour or during the workday, is essential for families. |
Some days, I feel like I do a pretty good job of balancing my career, my family, and myself. Other days, it feels like I'm falling desperately behind and failing on all three counts. |
I thought I kept my car clean and tidy. |
My 9-year-old son has never said "I love you." I honestly never gave it a second thought until I realized I was being told "I love you" multiple times daily by my 5-year-old daughter. |
Authoritative parenting—high on positive parenting and monitoring but low on inconsistent discipline—had the best long-term outcomes of all parenting styles. |
High-quality parenting was predictive of greater academic and social skills for all children, but particularly children with a difficult temperament. In addition, high-quality non-parental child care predicted fewer behavioral problems in children with difficult temperaments. |
More research is needed to identify what is normal when it comes to child sleep. Some of what is known is that children need longer nighttime sleep until about 9 years old. By school age, most children sleep through the night, but children up to 3 1/2 years old continue to wake at least once. Low birth-weight and pre-term infants sleep more. Infants of younger mother sleep more. All infants sleep longer at night, wake multiple times at night, and sleep longer daytime naps than young children who mostly stop taking naps by 5 years old. Girls sleep longer than boys. Children with siblings sleep less. |
Child emotional eating is correlated with minimizing and non-reasoning, punitive parental responses, which are in line with authoritarian and permissive parenting styles but not authoritative styles. |