Category: Family & Parenting

Dry winter months call for a bathtime routine that takes extra special care to protect your newborn’s skin barrier. Your baby’s oh-so-fresh skin is actually super delicate—it’s up…

When masculinity and femininity become irrelevant, you get gender equality. Twenty-five couples in 22 countries did it. Learn how. Susan Newman Ph.D. Source link

Source: PublicDomainPictures 17908/Pixabay Guest post by Michael Schroeder Working professionals in the U.S. who are starting or growing families face a unique challenge. Unlike their counterparts in every…

Source: Amritanshu-Sikdar/Unsplash Judith Grisel, Ph.D., an addiction expert, recounts her first taste of alcohol—drinking wine at the age of 13—in a way that could describe any teenager’s experience.…

A new study suggests ways to keep virus from spreading on campus. Susan Newman Ph.D. Source link

Source: Engin Akyurt/Unsplash When the pandemic caused widespread lockdowns in March of 2020, I raised the question, More Babies or More Divorces After COVID-19? I compared the possibilities…

Source: PublicDomainPictures 17907/Pixabay I was surprised when I read a parenting researcher’s email introduction with a link to an article she wrote about understanding children’s meltdowns and reactions…

Source: Enriquelopezgarre/Pixabay Wouldn’t it be wonderful if social distancing were a thing of the past? If we could hug our friends, see our relatives and have dinner with…

Source: TawnyVanBreda/Pixabay The assumption seems to be that an only child and his parents are having a tougher time being quarantined for long stretches than children with siblings.…

Source: Steinar-Engeland/Unsplash In the best of times, tween friendships are tricky and shifting, inevitably hitting snags. Being cut off from peers during the pandemic leave some feeling left…

Source: Brook-Cagle/Unsplash The COVID-19 pandemic is so different from anything we have ever experienced, yet it will be compared to natural disasters and outbreaks we have had in…