Parenting

After Heather Roberts went through a medical crisis, she decided to help other struggling moms through the sale of her aromatherapy bath bombs. Heather joined LX News to share how she built her company Mom Bomb, which donates 100% of its proceeds to providing services to mothers in need.

What does tea have to do with your kids’ fidgeting while they are trying to focus during at-home learning? Educator Gahmya Drummond-Bey, who has taught remotely in Asia during two pandemics, shares ways to work with your kids’ movement, and embrace it. It’s COVID during class for the latest #Mom2Mom.

We asked doctors and epidemiologists: How are you making the most of Halloween this year while maintaining masks and social distancing?

When it comes to doing what’s right for your kids during this pandemic, emotions run high. That can lead to judgment, a lot of judgment . Comedian, author and social media superstar Tiffany Jenkins tells Mom2Mom how she handles mom-shaming and how you can too.

What has more letters than the alphabet? That’s easy: The post office. That joke sponsored by the letter A is a highlight of the first original podcast from “Sesame Street,” featuring music, interactive games and Muppets galore.

From oldies but goodies like Speak & Spell to high-tech newcomers that will show kids the science of 3D printing, we’ve got the list on toys that teach.

When you finally get fifteen minutes to slow down, are you often too spent to figure out what to do with your time? Best-selling author Rachel Bertsche has a trick so that when you score even a few minutes, you’ll be able to make the most of it. #Mom2Mom

Research shows that moms are bearing the brunt of the toll taken on parents by the coronavirus pandemic when it comes to childcare, work and even mental health. Here are some tips to help mothers cope during these unprecedented times.

Emmy Award-winning actress Sarah Michelle Gellar says she’s “trying to take the good with the bad” during the pandemic. That includes coping with the ups and downs of helping her kids learn from home as well as finding the best solution for her son’s diagnosis with myopia, or nearsightedness.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have shared with the world that they lost their baby following pregnancy complications. We welcomed Stacey Stewart, the CEO of March of Dimes, a nonprofit that works to improve the health of mothers and babies, to discuss how the couple’s openness about their loss is helping to break the culture of silence around miscarriages and...

Children who had preschool cut short in the spring are now being held out of kindergarten at higher than normal rates as many school districts begin the year online.

Cincinnati father Andrew Beattie couldn’t bear to miss out on Halloween this year, so he created a “candy chute” for safe trick-or-treating during the pandemic, using a 6-foot-long chute made from household materials.

Daddy-daughter haircuts? Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are proving once again that they’re the fun parents. On Sept. 17, Shepard took to Instagram to share a video of himself shaving one side of his head to match with his daughter. The two-minute video shows him using an electric razor to buzz half his head, leaving his dark blonde hair swooped to the other side, all...

Tiffiny Dixon looks at her 4-year-old son and knows that someday he will “stop being cute” and start being stereotyped as a threat. That’s why she takes him to Black Lives Matter protests – to teach him how to fight back by using his constitutional rights of assembly and free speech.

If your car seat is about to expire, or it’s just covered in applesauce stains and Goldfish crumbs, Target has you covered with their 2020 car seat trade-in event.

Cynthia Kriegman of Positive Parenting Boston gives tips on how to help your children get off to a good start to the school year through remote learning.

Georgia mom Jana Coombs tapped into the feelings of many parents on social media when she shared a heartbreaking image of her son in tears on his first day of online kindergarten. She joined LX News to discuss her own family’s struggle with online education and the way she has banded together with some other parents to make it better...

What do your kids need to take this school year by storm if they’re doing it from home? We take the guess work out of it for you with a back to “remote” school list of must-haves. You have enough to think about, don’t you?

If you are always putting yourself on the back burner because there is so much to do, we’ll tell you why pampering yourself might be the best thing you can do for your entire family. Sound good?

Parenting coach Cynthia Kriegman from Positive Parenting Boston talks about students returning to school this fall with remote learning and how parents can best mentally prepare.