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Why it’s OK to praise our kids

My 4-year-old son likes to run. Lately, I’ve found an easy way to kill 15 minutes is to time him while he dashes off around the playground, again and again, trying to beat his time. I encour...

DATE: Jul 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Bumble, the dating app where women make the first move

A few hours into my first conversation with a man on Bumble – a dating app where, after there’s a match, it’s up to the woman to say hello – I popped the question: “So this is my first Bumbl...

DATE: Jul 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

The college majors that are most likely to marry each other

DATE: Jul 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

This Harvard grad offered $10,000 to find him a girlfriend – will he find love?

A lovelorn 29-year-old in Birmingham, Alabama, is crowdsourcing his soulmate search, and there are some things he wants you to know: He works 12 hours a day. He plays cornhole shirtless. He ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

New book offers lessons for parents from entrepreneurs

NEW YORK – Hard work, persistence, initiative. Can the skills found among entrepreneurs help today’s young people navigate their way to success? Absolutely, say a developmental psychologist ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

To bring out this little one's sisterly love, we'll need pest control

Q: I am an only child, so I do not understand this sibling thing. My two kids (a boy, 7, and a girl, 5) are friends, but they argue and pester each other. Mostly, in my opinion, Little Siste...

DATE: Jul 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Parenting and hypocrisy: From Free Range kid to Helicopter Mom?

Hey Ann. Madrigal Singers was rad. Don’t party too hard this summer. Ha ha just kidding. I need to burn all my yearbooks. Parents know that when they bring a baby into...

DATE: Jul 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Swiss pay out $4.9M to people taken from parents as children

BERLIN – Swiss authorities say they have paid out 4.6 million francs ($4.9 million) so far to hundreds of people who as children were taken from their parents and sent to work on Swiss farms...

DATE: Jul 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Baggage Check: Advice for a parent of a college-detouring daughter and a reader tired of hearing 'it's over'

Q: Our daughter, a middling-to-good student, is pushing to take a year off from school and not go directly to college but has no plans of what she’d do during that time. My husband and I tel...

DATE: Jul 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Helicopter parents and their fragile kids

Sometimes I despair for the children these days, I really do. I didn’t expect to feel this way at the tender age of 42. I was supposed to find them puzzling, with their Snapchatti...

DATE: Jul 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

The economics of having your baby at home

Over the past decade, the rate of U.S. births happening outside hospitals has been steadily on the rise, as more expectant mothers seek out a relaxed, private space to bring their children i...

DATE: Jul 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Mom sues Ohio YMCA, says it excluded boy with Down syndrome

CINCINNATI – A YMCA in Ohio excluded a 6-year-old boy from a summer camp and some other programs because he has Down syndrome and treated him hypocritically after using his photos in its pro...

DATE: Jul 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family