Evidence-based parenting strategies and approaches.
The way adults in a child's life talk about bodies -- their own bodies, other people's bodies, the child's body -- shapes how that child learns to und...
The first time you sit on the bedroom floor at 2am with a screaming, freshly-fed, freshly-changed baby and no idea what's wrong, you understand why th...
The biology of conception gets surprisingly little airtime, with the result that many couples spend the first few months either anxious because pregna...
Screen time generates more parenting guilt than almost any other modern question — and often disproportionate to what the evidence actually shows. The...
Few parenting topics generate this much guilt for so little clarity. WHO, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Royal College of Paediatrics and...
There is a specific feeling unique to standing in a supermarket with a 2-year-old who has just lost it over the wrong colour cup, while a queue forms...
The toddler who insists on pouring their own milk (and spills half), putting on their own shoes (10 minutes, wrong feet), and "helping" with dinner (c...
Most parenting books focus on what to do with children. Relatively few address the more uncomfortable truth that the adult's behaviour in moments of a...
A lot of parents put off the puberty conversation because it makes them uncomfortable. The thing worth knowing is that children find these conversatio...
The first baby is one of the bigger stress tests a relationship will ever take. The research on it is unusually consistent: in the first year, most co...
Sleep deprivation is so universal in new parenthood that it is often treated as a rite of passage rather than a health concern. The cultural tendency...
The self-esteem industry has done children few favours. The generation raised on trophy-for-everyone participation awards and "you're so special" prai...
Few parenting topics generate more anxiety — or more confident claims — than screen time for young children. Recommendations range from zero screens b...
The conversation around screen time and school-age children tends to generate more heat than light. On one side: screens are harmful, limits are neces...
Returning to work after parental leave is one of the most emotionally loaded events of early parenthood. For many parents, the period in the weeks bef...
A useful working hypothesis: most of the suffering in early parenthood is caused not by how hard it is, but by the gap between how hard it is and how...
The role of a birth partner has been studied unusually carefully, and the conclusion is more concrete than most "be supportive" advice would suggest:...
The amount of advice directed at pregnant women about food is extraordinary. Some of it is genuinely important -- folic acid and vitamin D supplementa...
Some degree of worry during pregnancy is normal. Worry about the baby's health, about the birth, about the transition to parenthood -- these are reaso...
Most parents understand intuitively that praise is important — that positive reinforcement supports children's behaviour and self-esteem. What is less...