The most frequent question I’ve been asked during my pregnancy is whether or not I’m having twins (no, but thanks for the complex). The second-most frequent question is: Will I be having the baby back home in the States or in England, where I’ve lived for nearly a decade? My response is always the same: […]
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It’s not just piggy banks! Here’s how you can teach kids to manage money
Here are some tips on how parents can teach their children to spend money judiciously. By Javed Tapia Wikipedia defines a “Piggy Bank” as a traditional name of a coin container normally used by children to save money. It has been the epitome of savings and an integral part of the lives of parents with […]
Can women drink while pregnant? Poster sparks debate
Public health groups protest posters suggesting that women can drink while pregnant, reports Daniel Victor. On posters distributed to medical facilities across Australia, large type over an image of a pregnant woman read: “It’s safest not to drink while pregnant.” Good so far. It was the next line, in smaller type, that alarmed medical professionals: […]
Chrissy Teigen Says Having Kids Changed Her Sex Life
Chrissy Teigen is busy. When she’s not cooking up new ideas (literally) for her cookbooks, holding the Trump administration accountable at public rallies, hosting a hit reality TV series or making her millions of fans laugh on Twitter, you can find her parenting her two adorable children, Miles and Luna. Something you won’t hear about […]
I'm Addicted to Buying My Kids Retro Toys on eBay
Mattel is revamping tiny ’90s toy favorite Polly Pocket and bringing her to a brand-new audience next month. I was excited to hear about this after dropping a nice chunk of change on eBay procuring “vintage” early-’90s Polly compacts for my 5-year-old daughter’s birthday. There’s something so satisfying about gifting my kids toys from my […]
Happy Teachers’ Day: Allow children to make choices, says educator Pauline Stulberg
Happy Teachers’ Day: A former British Royal Air Force officer, hockey player, a musician and an international educator, Pauline Stulberg, from UK, has added many feathers to her cap. For the past seven months, Stulberg has been working in India as a consultant and advisor at Shiv Nadar School. On Teachers’ Day 2018, Express Parenting […]
Great ideas for healthy snacking between meals
Make a weekly menu and avoid ordering in or opening a packet of readily available calorie laden chips when your kid has hunger pangs. By Payal Kothari I have two kids, both millennial, a sixteen-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son. The two of them are at different ends of the pole in everything including food […]
Beckham Backlash: Water Guns on British Vogue Cover Slammed as 'Tasteless'
The Beckhams are being slammed for their new British Vogue cover shoot featuring the family playfully spraying each other with water toys. Here’s a crazy thought: Could it be that maybe — just maybe — sometimes a water gun is just a water gun? Photographer Mikael Jansson snapped a photo of David and Victoria reclining […]
From penny press to Snapchat: Parents fret through the ages
When Stephen Dennis was raising his two sons in the 1980s, he never heard the phrase “screen time,” nor did he worry much about the hours his kids spent with technology. When he bought an Apple II Plus computer, he considered it an investment in their future and encouraged them to use it as much […]
‘Too much digital usage can affect a growing child’s brain’
The Blue Whale challenge and the more recent Momo Challenge have brought home the urgency of monitoring digital usage by children. By Dr Sapna Bangar When I tell my children that, growing up, we didn’t have mobile phones or internet, could watch only one channel on TV and actually wrote letters that took weeks at […]