The Doctor and The Dadusing psychology studies to pump up your parenting skills
We’re constantly teaching our children new things, aren’t we? We teach them the alphabet, the correct way to pet the cat, how to drive a car (gulp!), which sports teams to love and hate, how to replace the empty toilet paper roll for once in their frickin’ lives, and countless other bits of information that […]
Here’s a cool little fact to keep in mind next time you try to teach your child something: Kids learn better when lessons are tailored to things that they’re already interested in. That’s right!
Believe it or not, there was a time in this country when modestly dressed mothers and fathers would wait to teach their well-mannered children about “the birds and the bees” until they were in high school, or about to be married, or maybe never. These days, however, parents are apparently supposed to launch right into […]
Ah, the holidays are upon us. This probably means that a magical little Elf on the Shelf has returned from the North Pole to put smiles on your kids’ faces, and the joy of Christmas in their hearts. Not to mention a great big frigging knife right in your back. That’s right. Your Elf on […]
In our last post, “Why mispronouncing words is good for your kid,” we talked about how flubbing up all sorts of speech sounds is a totally normal part of your child’s language development. We even showed you this pretty cool chart that lets you know at which ages many common mispronunciations tend to disappear: What […]
Kids say the darnedest things. And when they’re still little, they usually say the most poorly enunciated things too. The guy who wrote all those Family Circus comic strips back in the day made his entire living off this fact. Pasghetti and meat bulbs? Sounds like the perfect punch line to me! But sometimes parents […]
Want an easy way to get your kids to help out around the house more? Of course you do. We all do. That’s why the Baby Mop exists. (Too bad it stops working as soon as your baby starts toddling.) And for the life of us, we just can’t understand why they’ve yet to make a toy vacuum […]