Is melatonin an answer for sleepless kids?Desperate parents are searching for natural ways to get their kids to fall asleep
Playing, with fire: How much risk should we expose our kids to?Injury-prevention expert Mariana Brussoni on anxiety-based caregiving, risk-taking, and why unsupervised play teaches social skills
Inside the daddy warsFathers are the unseen victims of the work-life crunch, a growing group argues. And it’s time for everyone to fight back.
In defence of childlessnessMeghan Daum’s book explores the reasons for not having children—most decent, all human.
The new lice warsDespite evidence that it’s time to abandon the no-nit rule requiring kids be sent home, schools have yet to get the message
How to parent a ‘struggling’ childAs a parent, Ann Douglas has helped her four children weather oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD, Asperger’s syndrome and extreme depression, respectively.
Fatherhood 101: Near Manila, a school for stay-at-home dadsFilipino fathers get a crash course in parenting while the mothers work as nannies overseas
Princesses are finding their own happily ever afterForget about Prince Charming–pop culture’s heroines are blazing their own trail, rebuking anti-princess dogma
British students are slipping. Should parents take the fall?White working-class children in the U.K. are lagging behind their peers. Fining parents could be the answer