Being a girl — especially a tween girl — has never been easy. But certain things in the world have made it better, brighter, bigger. The girl power era of the ...

My daughter is in first grade and has homework every single night. It’s just one page of math, a couple of reading passages, and a short book to go over. It’s ...

Many a millennial has memories of begging their parents to get their ears pierced. And some might have also had similar arguments about double piercings, nose ...

I have never been very good at receiving parenting advice. It’s not that I don’t think I have room for improvement as a parent; it’s just that most of the ...

Before I left for college in 1999, my mom took me to a big box store to pick out a new comforter and extra-long twin sheet set for my dorm room. We also got a ...

Giving your kid a cellphone is a big deal. It's bigger than it was in the 2000s when many of us received our first Nokia and used it mostly to play Snake and ...

Youth sports have become somewhat of a circus. There are elite teams and traveling teams and tryouts, and double headers. Parents’ entire weekends (and weekday ...