Many Black parents teach children to respect the rules we set, but making sure our words align with them can be difficult. Here's how to make it all work. Rawpixel Ltd./Adobe Sock Children learn many ...

Monica Blissett wanted to be a mother but struggled with infertility. When she needed someone to console her doubts and frustrations and provide encouragement, she turned to her own mother, Marie ...

Children’s etiquette isn’t what it used to be. Case in point: One of my students nailed me in the head with a doughnut. I teach a class for high school freshmen, and one recent morning, I felt ...

Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. ― Abraham Maslow Franz Kafka’s Letter to the Father (1953) is one of the most harrowing pieces of introspection in the ...

We know that many children are failing to learn to read in our nation’s classrooms. So it’s tempting to hope that tutoring by artificial intelligence could provide a solution. But how close are we to ...

Tricky conversations with kids are par for the course when you become a parent. But while many know they have to introduce the idea of stranger danger or eventually explain the birds and the bees, ...

The idea that children come into our lives to teach us just as much as we teach them is well known. Every child reflects something back to their parents. They often reveal lessons about patience, ...