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Weekend Routines for Families With Young Children
Weekends offer an opportunity to shift away from the rushed pace of weekdays while maintaining enough structure to keep everyone grounded. Rather than...
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How Visits to Extended Family Affect Young Children
Extended family visits offer children valuable relationships and exposure to family history and connection. However, these visits also disrupt routine...
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Vacations With Young Children: Setting Realistic Expectations
Vacations with young children look dramatically different from vacations without them. Rather than viewing this as a limitation, reframing what vacati...
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Traveling With a Baby: Practical Preparation
The first trip with a small baby always feels bigger than it turns out to be. Most babies travel surprisingly well, mostly because their needs — fed,...
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Teaching Young Children About Money
The Cambridge Money Advice Service study (Whitebread and Bingham, 2013) found that the foundations of children's money habits are largely formed by ag...
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How to Talk About Financial Limits With Children
Every parent eventually has the moment in the supermarket aisle where a small person wants something the family budget doesn't have room for. How you...
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Storytelling and Reading Together as a Family
There aren't many parenting habits that pay back as reliably as reading aloud. The research on it is unusually consistent: kids who are read to regula...
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Helping an Older Child Adjust to a New Baby: What to Expect and What Helps
The older child who responded to the news of a new baby with delight may now be hitting the baby, refusing to eat, and wetting the bed again at 3.5 ye...
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How Shared Activities Strengthen Family Bonds
Some of life's most important moments happen during shared activities—playing together, reading, taking a walk, or simply being present with your chil...
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Seasonal Activities for Families With Young Children
Seasons offer natural frameworks for family activities and learning. Rather than indoor entertainment, families can embrace seasonal changes through o...
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Managing Screen-Free Time as a Family
Creating intentional screen-free time as a family helps you step back from constant digital connection and focus on activities that build relationship...
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How to Maintain Routines During Holidays and Travel
Holiday gatherings and family travel inevitably disrupt the routines your child has grown accustomed to. Rather than viewing this as a failure of your...
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Managing Rainy Days With Young Children
A run of rainy days with young children can feel like a slow-moving disaster — cabin fever sets in by mid-morning, the house gets progressively worse,...
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Protecting Children From Adult Conflict
Every long relationship contains conflict. Children growing up in a family will hear disagreement; pretending otherwise creates a different problem, i...
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How to Prepare a Child for a House Move
A house move is, from a 3-year-old's point of view, a disappearance of the entire world. The wallpaper in the bedroom, the smell of the kitchen, the w...
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Preparing Children for a Visit to the Doctor
A doctor's appointment is, from a 2-year-old's point of view, a stranger in a stiff coat coming at them with cold metal. It is no wonder children get...
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The Role of Play in Family Bonding
The version of "playing with your child" that earns the relationship payoff isn't the half-distracted, building-blocks-while-checking-email version. I...
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How Parents' Phone Use Affects Young Children
Smartphones are integral to modern life, yet research shows that parental phone use during interaction time significantly affects child development. W...
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Managing Different Parenting Approaches During Family Visits
A weekend at your in-laws and suddenly your 18-month-old is up past 9 p.m., eating cookies before dinner, and watching an iPad you don't own. The rule...
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Why Parental Wellbeing Is a Family Priority
The line you'll hear from grandparents, social media, and (occasionally) clinicians: "look after yourself, you can't pour from an empty cup." It's tru...
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