When You Think Your Kids Aren't Listening, Read This

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Try This Next Time Your Kids Ignore You - And Before You Start Yelling

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Food Shopping With Kids – Fantasy Versus Reality

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It starts with thinking "?I just need a few things. I’ll take the kids to the local market. It’ll be fun." This is magical thinking, really. You see…

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Tips for Helping Kids (And Parents) Enjoy Family Roadtrips

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A quick video of tips for less annoying family roadtrips - including how to answer "are we there yet?" for the 1000th time.

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8 So-Called Life Lessons Learned On "Fun" Family Roadtrips

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There's still time to load up the Wagon Queen Family Truckster and hit the holiday road before summer ends. You'll definitely learn something on this trip.

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Are you holding your own daughter back? Here are 5 ways to raise girls to be leaders. - The Washington Post

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Our obsession with safety is harming our kids - Salon.com

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A Day in the Life of a New Mom: Live-Tweeted

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5:02 a.m. Holy cow, it’s five a.m. 5:05 a.m. hey, where my early risers at? The baby is hungry and I need entertainment!

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?7 Reasons I Hate Summer

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Another summer, another year, another collection of days caught like fireflies in a jar and let go again. It’s nothing we planned. It’s everything we hope for. Light slanting, days shifting, circadian rhythms tick-tocking. And it rolls.

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Helping Your Child Develop Resiliency Through Healthy Social Interest

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The healthiest human beings are those with the highest social interest. If we want to ensure that our children are emotionally healthy, we must raise them in a home where parents demonstrate social interest as a way of life.

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Parents on Social Media: Pew Research Findings 

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Motherhood: Another Country

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I can’t think of any photos of just me since my son was born. I can’t think of any at all. I take pictures of Robin and I together, a duo framed. We look straight into the sun. We show our hands to the open shutter. And in all of them, I’m cut—one eye surrendered to a field, another limb abandoned by an ocean.

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5 New Affirmations for Parents

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All parents need a little positive thinking and self-empowerment about the excruciating, uh, beautiful job of parenting. Here are some quotes that sum it up.

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The easy guide to explaining truly scary geopolitical events to your kids without freaking them out

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Take This Quick Survey About Screen Time and Kids

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We're asking real parents to share their family tech habits in this 60-second survey. We'll publish results on July 17.

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7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Parents

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"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" translated into less-than-steller parenting moments that we’re all guilty of.

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See Your Children Leading Healthy Lives? Research Suggests Parents Should Look Harder. - The New York Times

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What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong? | Mother Jones

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The 9 Circles of Parenting Hell, Illustrated

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Limbo. Hoarding. Wrath. Scabies. Just a few of the nine circles of parenting hell, illustrated by Sarah Woodard.

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How to encourage self motivation in your kids

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Thoughtful encouragement is a powerful way to rid you and your family or your classroom of sticker charts, bribing, and reminding forever.

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(Questionable) parenting tricks that work like that a charm

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Over the years, I've picked up some really effective parenting tricks, that—as a generous fellow parent—I feel obligated to share with you now.

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Talking to Your Kids About Same-Sex Marriage

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100 Percent Is Overrated - The Atlantic

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Ten things I can't wait for my son to experience

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There are so many exciting milestones on the road of life. But outside of the monumental moments , I'm looking forward to the less epic, but just as meaningful, experiences for my son.

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