Parenting

When you hug your partner and express genuine compassion, or send a note in your young child's lunchbox letting her know you made that sandwich just for her, it's your good intentions—not just your nice behavior—that may significantly improve their day. Read More

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Have you ever noticed how inconvenient love can be? Read More

"We need our boys to be as ambitious to contribute in the home, and we need our girls to be as ambitious to achieve in the workforce." This was Sheryl Sandberg's message at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Facebook COO, an ambitious, high-achieving woman in her own right, spoke of an "ambition gap" in the way we are raising young girls and boys. Read More

He celebrated every triumph, grieved every loss, galumphed beside us on every hike through every literal and emotional terrain, and always slept at our feet. He placed himself on bed rest with me at the end of my pregnancy. He bore witness to it all. He outlived our marriage. He was my greatest comfort. How could I let him go? Read More

I love Canadians, and I love Canada. Here is just one of many reasons. On the third Monday of February, Family Day is observed in the provinces of Alberta, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. Family Day celebrates the importance of families and family life to people and their communities. Read More

Parenting the shy or anxious child is a series of exercises in letting go. We want to protect our child from the difficulties and pain of the world, yet we know that meeting those challenges is what gives our child the strength to succeed. Read More

These are kids for whom it is not unusual to make a quick leap from the first awakening of sexual awareness to the first consummation of sexual experience. They haven't had to wait for anything else; why wait for that? Read More

Think you're smarter than a chimpanzee? So why does your baby cry and scream so much more than her offspring? What can new parents learn from how non-human primates raise their young? Read More