The news coming out of Washington, D.C. has been overwhelming. Kids and teens with access to social media and who watch the news are inevitably seeing broadcasts, images, videos and posts that are a lot to unpack. As parents, we can draw the tragic conclusion from the rioters’ violent actions that media literacy is a […]
It has been said again and again that the 2020-2021 academic year has been an “unprecedented” one for children, an adjective that for teachers, parents and children who have struggled through the past year feels … insufficient. Millions of American kids have not stepped foot in a classroom since last March. Others have adapted to […]
The year 2021 has arrived, and the COVID-19 pandemic has not magically disappeared and let life return to the old normal. While there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic, a great deal of uncertainty also remains, which poses a challenge to overwhelmed parents and children. “As we head into 2021, parents around the world […]
More than 6 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been given so far in the United States. Many health care workers and other high-risk individuals have now received both doses, which means they’re one step closer to getting their lives back. But what does “back” actually mean when the U.S. is still in the […]
As violent rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, President-elect Joe Biden delivered a televised address to the nation. “Think what our children watching television are thinking,” he said in his remarks. That’s something many parents have considered while images of destruction, violence, and chaos flood the internet and TV airwaves. When there are major […]
Zoom fatigue is so very real, after nine months of video calls. Early in 2020, it felt like our only portal to the world we’d left behind – but now many of us are, quite frankly, over it. Even Zoom’s chief operating officer, Aparna Bawa, acknowledged how we feel in an interview with the BBC […]
Last year was difficult for everyone, and children in particular faced many challenges. Millions of American kids haven’t stepped foot in a classroom since last March, and many have lost loved ones or are facing food insecurity. Kids have been cut off from their friends and favorite activities, and they’ve had to learn to live […]
Parents draw baby name inspiration from a variety of sources ― family history, pop culture, literature and even food. For many, geography offers meaningful ideas. But American parents aren’t just turning to glamorous international locales like Paris and London for baby name fodder. Many of them are sticking closer to home and picking the names […]
If you put self-care on the back burner in 2020, you’re hardly alone. This past year was undeniably stressful, with strange event after strange event happening on the regular (a global pandemic, an election that seemed to last eons, mass unemployment ― and that’s just chipping the surface). Given all of that, many of us […]
Actor Tanya Roberts, known for her role in the James Bond film “A View to a Kill” and in “That ’70s Show,” died on Monday at age 65 after being in the hospital for a few days. Her representative told People that her cause of death “was from a urinary tract infection which spread to […]