Parenting

While I flopped through Hebrew school, my father dreamed of Gramercy Park.

Two new books assess our contemporary scripts for fatherhood.

Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” prompted controversy thirteen years ago, but, among the upper middle class, variations on her parenting style have proliferated.

Many left-leaning, middle-class Americans speak of kids as though they are impositions, or means to an end.

What parents might learn from radical movements.

In her new book—part memoir, part science writing—Lucy Jones argues that having a baby changes the body as much as adolescence, and should be taken as seriously.

A new book encapsulates the zero-sum thinking that affects much of contemporary parenting discourse.

Camps once sold a story about social improvement. Now we just can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.

It was so reasonable—why couldn’t we want different things? Two could go into the water and one could stay on the shore. But I didn’t want to leave her there.

In the past two decades, American parents have started to ditch the purées and give babies more choice—and more power—at mealtime. 

According to experts, maintaining an infectious state of calm is the single goal from which all other family aspirations can flow.

The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.

A conversation about grocery-store tantrums, the virtues of disappointment, and the gap between good kids and bad behavior.

For seven years, I helped kids stage a series of silly, madcap musicals. I didn’t realize that it couldn’t last.

In her novel “Still Born,” Guadalupe Nettel blurs the lines between family members and strangers.

An ongoing debate in France complicates the notion that there is an overarching secret to raising kids à la française.

The author discusses “Do You Love Me?,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.

Children with disabilities have a constitutional right to accommodation in public schools. Securing those rights can bring their families to a breaking point.

The pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.”

Adoptees reckon with corruption in orphanages, hidden birth certificates, and the urge to search for their birth parents.