Parenting

Our culture teaches kids that mistakes are costly, resulting in everything from lower grades to feelings of shame. This is why parents should help their kids to find ways to experience and learn from failure—as easily and as cheaply as possible. 

In a video with more than 65 million views @camifrobabe on TikTok, 2-year-old Camille says a tearful goodbye after spending time with her Papiére, Tony. Camille, Tony and mom Colette sat down with LX News’ Ashley Holt to talk about their roles as internet joy spreaders.

A House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids. The panel says the Google-owned video service feeds children inappropriate material in “a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content” so it can serve them ads.

As the government continues to issue new stimulus checks, some people are getting “plus-up” payments now that their 2020 tax returns have been processed.

The decision to start a family is always very personal and multi-faceted, but it becomes even more complex for those who have a history of mental health illness.

Raising kids can be hard. But at the end of the day, most parents just want their kids to be healthy, happy and kind. Educational psychologist Michele Borba talked to over a hundred kids across the country and landed on three traits that can help your kids go from striver to thriver. She stopped by the #momcave to talk with...

We often see adoption on our social media feeds in the most glowing light — with loving adoptive parents and happy children celebrating their new family. Less often do we focus on the trauma that adoptees experience, nor do we see the difficult journey of adoptive parents. NBCLX contributor Nathan Willis explores how the trauma of adoption is treated.

Zeth and his 2-year-old daughter, Saylor, amassed a huge social following after they started recording videos of themselves discussing their favorite music, films, snacks and animals (spoiler alert: it’s the flamingo).

The Oscar-winning actor opens up to TODAY’s Hoda Kotb about his role of a lifetime — as a husband and father.

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.

Mike Proulx, research director at Forrester, talks about a new website created by Google to help parents navigate the age of technology amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Wilmer Valderrama has graduated from “yo momma” jokes to a starring role on “NCIS” and fatherhood. His baby girl, Nakano Oceana Valderrama, was born in February. But the actor says he would still be up for revisiting the gang from “That 70’s Show”… maybe for a movie set in the 1980s.

As a parents, we often overlook the importance of teaching our kids how to build mental strength. This kind of resilience helps them build character and overcome life’s toughest challenges. A therapist explains how to raise mentally tough kids with a growth mindset.

Americans with kids under 18 may start receiving a portion of the $3,000 child tax credit this summer under the American Rescue Plan Act. Here’s how it works.

As COVID-19 vaccine trials begin for children, many parents may be understandably wary about signing their own child up as a subject. So we got Peter Pitts, a former FDA associate commissioner and president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, to break down how vaccine trials for children work and how researchers ensure they’re safe.

With the final sign off of the American Rescue Plan Act on Thursday, families and workers can look forward to a $40 billion infusion for child care. 

“Yes Day,” which debuts on Netflix Friday, stars Jennifer Garner and Edgar Ramirez as the parents to three spirited kids who get to dictate everything that they do for 24-hours.

After a year of disruption due to the pandemic, families are starting to prepare to return to a life that feels more normal. But even that shift back to ‘normal’ life can cause mental health struggles for parents and children. Dr. Regine Muradian, a clinical psychologist, joined LX News to describe the three conversations parents should have with their children...

When pandemic lockdowns forced people inside in early 2020, there was lots of speculation that all those bored couples would create a baby boom. Instead, 2020 appears to be the year of the baby bust. NBCLX’s Noah Pransky investigates why we’ve stopped having babies — and what that that means for our future.

A trauma psychologist who is a mother herself realized early in the pandemic that parents needed more resources and support to cope with the “relentless” demands that were being placed on them. So Amanda Zelechoski and her fellow psychologist Lindsay Malloy started Pandemic Parenting, a website where parents can find science-based information about parenting during the COVID-19 outbreak. Zelechoski joined...