You're bracing for the next meltdown before it's even started. By the 10th "no," the constant whining, the moment they throw your own words back at you, you're not thinking about scripts or positive parenting anymore. You're thinking, “Is this ever going to get easier?? Is my child always going...

One of you sent me this question recently, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. I think almost every parent of more than one young kid has lived some version of this exact night. They are very close and have a dynamic where the older one will start to get dysregulated, tired, hungry,...

"She has a very hard time going to bed on her own and will not let us go downstairs when it's bedtime." A TMP Times member sent me that line recently, and if you're already nodding, here's the rest of what she told me. Her daughter put on her pajamas, jumped straight into her parents' bed, and ...

It was the last evening of our 5-day summer trip to the beach. We were out shopping for a souvenir, something small to remember it by. We ended up in a tiny gift shop at the top of a lighthouse, the kind of shop where you have to turn sideways to get down the aisle. My husband had escorted our ...

Over the summer, my daughters and I started a book club. It came from the realization that all our reading time was spent with us all reading independently. I started to miss reading and having conversations together. As they enter puberty, I also want to stay connected with them, talk about im...