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Talk to Kids About Racist Stereotypes in Disney+ Classic Movies
When Disney+ launched in 2019, some of its classic kids’ movies came with a softball warning that read: “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.”...
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Spend All the Riches You Were Saving for Your Kids
If you’re thinking of passing your wealth down to your children because you love them, think again. Some of the most financially successful people in the world deny their children the bulk of their...
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How to Co-Parent More Effectively
Navigating co-parenting relationships is not easy, whether co-parenting with a particularly difficult ex or with a former partner you generally have a positive relationship with. Most people are not...
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How to Deal With Relatives Who Disregard Your Parenting Rules
Grandparents who don’t follow parents’ rules are a tradition as old as time, but polarisation over pandemic safety guidelines, social unrest, and a contentious election are among the many ways that...
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What Is the Worst Parenting Advice You Ever Received?
There is a lot of good parenting advice out there — helpful, supportive, researched-based tips to help us raise children to grow up to be happy, healthy, kind adults. And then there is some truly awful...
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What Is the Best Parenting Advice You Ever Received?
A lot of parenting advice is bad advice. It’s not just that standards and societal norms change over time, it’s also that when something works for one parent and one child, that one parent tends to see...
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How to Avoid Transition-Based Tantrums
Toddlers throw tantrums for all kinds of reasons, both logical and illogical. A fit could be thrown for the understandable reason that they’re simply tired at the end of a long day, or they could be...
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An Age-By-Age Guide to Disciplining Your Kid
Most new parents begin their parenting journey with some idea of how they want to discipline their children. Surely you would never let your three-year-old throw a fit in Target. Your kid won’t talk...
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Improve Your Child’s Behaviour by Setting Fewer Limits
Your child is jumping on the couch for the 50th time, despite you repeatedly asking them not to. When you ask them to stop yet again, they just look you in the eye as they keep jumping, almost daring...
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Be ‘Louder’ About Your Parenting at Work
I can still remember the embarrassment I felt the time a young co-worker walked past my cubicle early one morning and paused to say, “Do I spy ‘the snack that smiles back’ in your bag? Wow, you really...
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10 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Becoming a Parent
Raising a child is full of surprises. No matter how many books, parenting forums, and articles you read, the truth is that nothing can completely prepare you for it. After become a parent, though, I...
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How to Be a More ‘Playful’ Parent
Before they have kids, everyone has a different image in their head of the type of parent they think they’ll be. Maybe you’ll be a free-range parent, or the parent who prioritises family dinnertime...
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What Are Your Go-to Parenting Mantras?
So much of parenting is about the long game. We may be raising children, but we’re really raising adults — people who, in a surprisingly short amount of time, will be off on their own, living their own...
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How to Teach Kids Not to Be ‘Too’ Honest (and Why You Should)
Little kids have this way of being brutally honest in all facets of their life (that is, when they’re not telling an obvious lie about eating all the cupcakes, even as their face is smeared with...
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Teach Kids the Difference Between Secrets, Privacy, and Surprises
As adults, we understand the nuanced differences between a surprise, a secret, and something that is private. But for kids, these concepts can blur and overlap — and unfortunately, that is a fact child...
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How to Parent With Both Strength and Flexibility
A big part of parenting is setting rules, expectations, and boundaries — and then enforcing them. Every parent learns at some point that if we’re not consistent with our rules, they pick up on that...
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How to Be a More ‘Gentle’ Parent (and What It Really Means)
When I wrote last week about considering whether it’s time to change our parenting styles as we emerge from the pandemic, one reader reached out to ask me if I’d ever heard of gentle parenting. I did...
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Use These Positive Parenting Phrases to Avoid Conflict With Your Kids
We talked earlier this week about how to be a more gentle parent, which sounds sweet and lovely but can be hard to pull off when you’re feeling frazzled after a long day with whiny children. As with...
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How to Recognise the Signs of Paternal Postpartum Depression
“I’m just sick of feeling worthless,” I said, my head in my hands and holding back tears. I had spent the entire day in bed, the result of a panic attack at work the day before. In addition to feeling...
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How Do I Strengthen My Relationship With My Adult Children?
This is the Parental Advisory advice column, where we tackle your most pressing parenting dilemmas, one tantrum at a time. Email your kid-rearing questions to mwalbert@lifehacker.com with “Parental...
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