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It’s hard to look at the photo of Trayvon Martin that’s coursing around the Internet and see a threat. The 140-pound, 17-year-old is more boy […]

In case you haven’t heard of it, “pink slime” is the pulverized and ammonia-hydroxide-treated slaughterhouse scraps mixed into regular beef. It’s a food product that […]

There was a distinctly weird moment during Sunday’s Super Bowl, and I’m not talking about Ahmad Bradshaw falling backward into the end-zone for that touchdown […]

Parents, Listen: There’s No Such Thing as Too Busy to Use the Car Seat. There’s overparenting, and then there’s the other extreme. A new study […]

Most mothers I know were thrilled if they could secure a hospital room to themselves when they delivered their first baby. I, for one, was […]

A year ago I was fretting that our kids would never know the true joy of outdoor play in winter. On one particularly bleak afternoon, […]

Theories abound about why our generation of parents has become a generation of control freaks. Here are two interesting takes from interviews I did while […]

While doing research for my December feature story, “Welcome to the Age of Overparenting,” in which I come clean about my struggles as a helicopter […]

The six different overparenting archetypes.

See Jane. See Jane walk downstairs. Clap, Mom and Dad, clap! See Mom and Dad clap, clap, clap. For everything Jane does. Welcome to the age of overparenting.

For us, Thanksgiving weekend meant, among other things, many hours in a packed car with three kids under the age of nine. This was not […]

When a majority in a society notice an increase in tension, uncertainty, or malaise, they search for a reason. Americans are especially prone to implicating […]

“Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place / When you handle the master carpenter’s tools / Chances are […]

Partly because of overprotective parenting, children are deprived of free play today as they never have been before outside of the times and places of […]

What’s a helicopter parent? Someone who hovers more than you do. Seriously, nobody tries to be a helicopter parent. But parenting is the toughest job […]