Family

If more parents took the time to step back, evaluate their playground stance, and found ways that both they and their children can enjoy the experience, would we see many happier, healthier, and responsible children… and fewer stressed parents?

When should parents transfer responsibility to their children?

Whatever I teach, I teach storytelling.

Split Rock Lighthouse keeper Lee Radzak is leaving the job after 36 years. What made him stay so long?

Women are constantly starring as victims of the male patriarchy, of inequality, of sexual/physical/emotional/abuse.

What’s the secret of a happy and enduring marriage? According to a team from the Yale School of Public Health, it could be the genes of husband and wife.

In common parlance, a “cat person” is not simply someone who likes cats; it is a lonely human being who has either refused or is unable to achieve the risks and benefits of human intimacy.

Of course, it’s great to have a tidy house. No one denies that. But the alleged benefits of the KonMari method are absurdly overblown.

After being arrested and charged with practicing midwifery without a license last fall, a midwife in upstate New York is wondering whether or not she will go to jail for the work she has done for decades.

Even though the parameters for euthanasia in the Netherlands are very wide, one member of Parliament wants to allow any one 75 years or older to be able to request euthanasia for any reason whatsoever.  

It’s unfortunate, of course, that we need projects and play clubs to grant our children a taste of the freedom and fun we enjoyed as kids.

When you or someone close to you is facing the worst kind of tragedy, some kind of death (because every bad thing is some kind of death), you want to help. But you think: “There’s nothing I can do!”

Every parent has been there, and it’s every parent’s worst nightmare.

Alexandra Tolstoy's images portray the simplicity and the peacefulness that we all secretly crave for ourselves and our children, but feel we never can attain in our fast-paced modern world.

Assuming the physically stronger party is always more likely to be guilty is absurd.

If Canada’s program is any indication, the government’s definition of “high-quality” child care may, in fact, be harming children.

It is no longer cool to be young, single and live in Manhattan.

Unless Elizabeth Warren is nostalgic for the era of the Great Depression, she should recognize that increasing the minimum wage to a family wage would cause long-term harm to American families.

They’ll probably start out watching clips from innocuous shows like “Peppa Pig” or “Paw Patrol,” but it’s all too easy for them to end up in much darker territory.

Children have to be taught what no means. But how?

It’s time to move away from outdated stereotypes of adolescents as only selfish and dangerous risk-takers and to consider how they are ripe for learning about contributing to others and their communities.

Talent is made, not born.

Peterson and McKay agree that most young men have not heard positive encouragement.

Everyone seems to agree that opposites attract. But is it true?

Ladies, we are being manipulated.

It appears that the genre of young-man-in-Mom’s-basement is no longer looked down upon but is in fact extolled as a viable career choice.

Modern loneliness is a complex problem, and the solutions will also vary.

On a recent trip to the zoo with my kids, I wondered, are there any unmediated experiences left?