Why Facebook’s Scrapbook Is Bad For Your Baby | TIME
"Facebook has a parent problem — teenagers don’t want to hang out where old farts are analyzing Claire’s hair on House of Cards. This new scrapbook feature is an obvious attempt to nip that issue i...
A missed point in the debate about screen time and kids
Glowing rectangles can't replace tactile experiences, but kids can still use them to learn, create and explore their curiosity. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, "today’s child liv...
100 days to spark and celebrate your creative practice
EVERYONE HAS A CREATIVE DREAM, but few truly pursue their dreams. Why? Lack of time. Lack of motivation (energy.) Lack of focus. Parents of course have extra demands on our time, energy and focus...
Yes, Your Time as a Parent Does Make a Difference - NYTimes.com
The claim that parenting time doesn’t matter is the bottom line of a single recent study by a team of sociologists who suggest that child outcomes are barely correlated with the time that parents s...
Ask Angela: I've become undateable
My husband and I recently made a promise to go on one awesome date every month. I suppose that when we made this promise I knew we might eventually have to break it, but I certainly didn’t imagine ...
Take an Internet Field Trip: 5 Links to Share with Your Kids
Share awesome, fun links with your kids on an Internet Field Trip curated for Parent Co. by Today Box. Today Box curates fun and educational daily facts, videos, photos, and jokes for curious kids ...
Cartoonist James Kochalka: Imagination, playfulness, and a sense of joy and wonder at the world
James Kochalka is an award-winning cartoonist and author of “American Elf.” He also served as the first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. His most recent graphic novel, “The Glorkian Warrior Eats Adv...
This is why comic books are awesome for kids
WE'RE CELEBRATING COMIC BOOKS for kids (and grownups) this month at Parent Co! We’re interviewing prominent comic book writers and illustrators. We'll show you how your kids can make their own pri...
Top 5 reading list for parents 3/27-4/3
We listened to this edition of On Point earlier this week about screen time for babies 2 and under. Our takeaway? Don't torture yourself with singing and dancing crayons in the name of early educat...
Breakfast tips for real-life weekday mornings
You’ve heard it a million times: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You probably also have heard of studies suggesting that kids who eat breakfast will be more focused, do better in ...
5 TED Talks that will help you understand learning
The research is clear. Children learn best in environments that value relationships, curiosity, creativity, making mistakes, reflection, and personalized learning. Every parent should see these fiv...
Laughing With Your Kids Is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Them
A sense of humor takes years to develop. Babies burble and laugh at peekaboo, toddlers love pratfalls, and potty humor is the pinnacle of wit through elementary school. Understanding different type...
Making time for kids? Study says quality trumps quantity. - The Washington Post
“I could literally show you 20 charts, and 19 of them would show no relationship between the amount of parents’ time and children’s outcomes. .?.?. Nada. Zippo,” said Melissa Milkie, a sociologist ...
Why Kids Need to Move, Touch and Experience to Learn | MindShift
When students use their bodies in the learning process, it can have a big effect, even if it seems silly or unconnected to the learning goal at hand. Researchers have found that when students use ...
Take an Internet Field Trip: 5 Links to Share with Your Kids
Share awesome, fun links with your kids on an Internet Field Trip curated for Parent Co. by Today Box. Today Box curates fun and educational daily facts, videos, photos, and jokes for curious kids ...
50 observations from a month of paternity leave
Brennan Carney is a teacher and Head Varsity Football Coach at Burlington High School. He and his wife Keri (also a teacher and coach) had their first son, Cooper on 12/29/2012. During his paternit...
weeSpring founder Allyson Downey: There's no such thing as an expert when it comes to your family
Allyson Downey is the founder, along with her husband, Jack, and friend Melissa Post, of weeSpring, a social media site designed to help new and soon-to-be parents navigate the overwhelming world o...
Top 5 reading list for parents 3/20-3/27
There are only so many hours in the day. Here are 5 things you might have missed. This weekend, I shall invest in a set of dry erase markers and re-write the programming at my house, using the exac...
Hey Kids! Go Outside, Already via On Point with Tom Ashbrook
American kids today spend only four to seven minutes a day playing outdoors. There are all kinds of reasons, but at heart it’s a lifestyle change. Listen here: Hey Kids! Go Outside, Already | On P...
Gender in Play: How Toca Boca Creates Apps for All Kids | A new way to play | Toca Boca
Some of the Toca Boca apps were among the first things I downloaded on my iPhone for my kids. From the beginning I was in love with their visual appeal and the lack of risky (and tacky) in app purc...
Parents are unconsciously setting their kids up to be materialists with fragile egos via Quartz
On Quartz, Sonali Kohli reports that taking things away from kids when they do something bad led them to be more insecure as adults, and that insecurity made them associate material things with suc...
Ad-Rock, "Older family man" via Daily Beast
Daily Beast: You play a domesticated dad in While We’re Young, and you’re an older family man now. Was it tough for you to transition into that mode? You were pretty wild back in the day. Ad-Rock:...
When the Computer Takes Over for the Teacher via The Atlantic
Don't think of teachers being replaced by technology in the classroom in 20 years - try five or 10. Joshua Starr, a nationally prominent superintendent, recently told NPR, "I ask teachers all the ...
Every parent should see these 5 TED Talks on education
Why are we still running schools the same way we did fifty years ago? This is the question students, teachers, parents, and researchers now wrestle with in the 21st century. According to the U.S. ...