A growing number of parents are making a deliberate, countercultural choice: to significantly reduce or eliminate screens from their children’s early years. Not because they’ve demonized technology, but because they’ve watched what happens when screens are default and they want something different for their kids. The movement has enough mass that it’s reshaping how some…
The research on children and screens is genuinely complicated, and most public conversation about it is not. “Two hours a day” emerged from the American Academy of Pediatrics as a guideline for school-age children, was repeated often enough that it became a de facto rule, and was eventually revised by the AAP itself because the…
Siblings fight. This is so reliably true that it barely qualifies as an observation. Research suggests the average pair of young siblings has some form of conflict every nine minutes. The question isn’t whether siblings conflict — it’s what parents should do about it, and which kinds of conflict are worth addressing directly versus letting…
Family meetings sound like something out of a 1970s parenting book. The reality is that families who hold regular, structured meetings report more cooperation, fewer recurring conflicts, and children who feel more ownership over family life. The research on this is thinner than some parenting topics, but the practical evidence from families who use them…
Picky eating is one of the most reliably stressful parts of feeding children. Estimates vary, but somewhere between 20 and 50 percent of parents describe their child as a picky eater at some point. Most picky eating resolves on its own. Some doesn’t. And the strategies parents use in response to it matter more than…