Blink once and you might just miss the tiny swim window that Mother Nature provides us. But my family just keeps on swimming all year-round. By the time my oldest and middle kiddo turned five, they were confident enough to swim to the edge of the pool and even flip to...
By Lori Orlinsky, children’s book author and Bullying Prevention and Response Trained certified by the CDC. “Mommy, today at school my friend told me my snack was poison, and she made me throw it away,” my daughter Hayley said to me as she...
Great schools, big backyards, cool community—they’re important, but they don’t tell a suburb’s whole story We get it—you’re ready to leave the city for the suburbs and you’ve narrowed down your list of essentials. The town you’ll call “home” needs to have A+...
A parent’s job today is exponentially more difficult than when we were growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. This is a fact that no one needs to prove with academic resources, but can be proven simply by having been a kid in the 80’s or 90’s...
“Children’s access to outdoor play has evaporated like water in sunshine.” —Mary Rivkin, Author of The Great Outdoors Research finds that the absence of outdoor experiences has been detrimental to child development. Often, many parents are not able to...
Donte Palmer is a dad changing what it means to be a father—one changing table at a time. His amazing journey began in October of last year, when he found himself in a men’s room without a changing table to use to change his son’s diaper. Like he had done many times...
