If you want your child to have a rich and fulfilling life, one of the best things you can do is help build your child’s vocabulary.
Summer is finally here, which means we can all look forward to some fun in the sun!
For thousands of years, mothers have sung lullabies to help their babies and children fall asleep.
- By Adam Davies
What does it mean to be a “good father?” While playing catch as a form of father-son bonding can be a good thing, it is necessary to challenge our idealized concepts of fatherhood gleaned from popular culture and Hallmark-style greeting cards.
Nothing is more important than feeling good, and it doesn't matter beans how you do it. If standing on your head in Times Square will do it, terrific. If smelling newly cut wood will do it, grand. You know when you're there; you can't miss it. Whether it's just a decision to feel good in the moment...
What if there was a simple, inexpensive and fun way to address some of the major challenges facing humanity today.
- By Marc Lesser
I have always found it interesting and surprising that in Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero’s journey, the second stage after “the calling” is “refusing the call.” In stories, the hero will get a clear calling but then immediately be filled with doubt, hesitation, or outright fear.
Despite all the research that tells parents how good it is for their children to spend time playing outside, they are spending more time indoors than ever before.
Hippocrates said circa 400BC that “food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food”.
Are you ever around women who seem frustrated, upset or irritated? Have you ever asked one of them if she was on her period or perhaps been tempted to inquire?
- By Alexis Blue
One of the most valuable lessons parents can teach their children about money might be how to give it away.
- By Shai Tubali
How can we achieve any sense of knowing with so many contradictory thoughts running around in our mind?
- By Nikki Martyn
We are born to connect. As human beings we are relational and we need biological, emotional and psychological connection with others.
- By Melissa Kang
Is it normal for girls to masturbate and are there any health consequences?
The topic of sexual consent seems to be in the news on a daily basis, especially since #MeToo went viral one year ago.
Young people get a huge amount of their news from social media feeds, where false, exaggerated or sponsored content is often prevalent.
The benefits of music education are widely reported. Playing an instrument has been shown to have significant cognitive benefits.
Parents often receive books at pediatric checkups via programs like Reach Out and Read and hear from a variety of health professionals and educators that reading to their kids is critical for supporting development.
Remember that the goal of this teaching is to facilitate the lessons of unconditional love and acceptance. There is no possibility of accomplishing this toward others if you have not first learned how to unconditionally accept yourself. Here are seven steps to lead you in that direction...
Over the past few decades of Australian life, government policies have gradually offered more support to working mothers, particularly through childcare subsidies and parental leave.
Both in Europe and the US, more than 90% of adolescents have their faces buried in screens before bed.
At the parent-teacher conference, I sat across the table from my first grader’s teacher in a chair made for a 6-year-old.
- By Bert Gambini
For couples who frequently use the drug, episodes of marijuana use increase the likelihood couples will experience “intimacy events,” according to new research.