A child is not a blank canvas. He is not an art project. You don't have to create him or mold him into your vision or your ideal. By the...

Here is one more topic from How to Land Your Kid in Therapy that I can't ignore: independence. On the one hand, Gottlieb talks about ho...

There is an article on The Atlantic , called How to Land Your Kid in Therapy . If you haven't read it yet , I recommend it. It is a ver...

If you ever listen to parenting advice, you have probably heard some form of this... WARNING: Being Friends With Your Child Is Dangerous. ...

You have been invited to go on a day-long hike by two of your friends, to the same place, on the same day. You have never been hiking before...

I'm just going to say it: I don't think you are a good mother. But I'm not saying I think you are a bad mother either. I used t...

Every day in the news, there is another article about some kind of animal mother someone is claiming to be: a dolphin, a sloth, a panda... a...

I have a feeling it's not possible to change someone else. That might seem obvious. People say it out loud all the time. Yet most of us ...

I wish I had never said never. Before I had kids, I used to look at other people and how they dealt with their kids, and think I would never...

Look at some of the popular "wisdom," in the form of one-liner clichés, about quitting: 1. Winners never quit, and quitters neve...

Yesterday, there was a segment on the Today Show with "parenting expert" Michele Borba, based on her article entitled How To Raise...

Thank you, Judith Warner, for your level-headed look at parenting trends in the New York Times. Since I read Amy Chua's questionably ti...