The Big Myth About Teenage Anxiety

Relax: The digital age is not wrecking your kid’s brain.

Should Parents Track Their Teenager’s Location?

What advice would you give to parents who are considering using technology to follow their children?

Why You Should Stop Yelling at Your Kids

It doesn’t make you look authoritative. It makes you look out of control to your kids. It makes you look weak.

When Seeking Answers Causes Unintended Pain

In reporting a story about suicide and drug overdoses, a reporter’s thankless tasks include calling parents shocked by the sudden interest.

How to Play Our Way to a Better Democracy

If we want saner politics, we need to start building better foundations from the playground up.

Weekend Reads: From Tiger Moms to Laissez-Faire Parents

In letters to the editor our readers discuss different parenting styles and the effects they have on children.

Home Alone, With a Spy Cam

Smart devices make it possible for parents to keep close tabs on their latchkey children, but is it really a good idea?

A Mother’s Fragmented Identity

My partial selves — writer, runner, mother — have become like islands I travel between and my life is the ocean around them, unknowable.

When Is a Baby Fully Protected by Vaccines?

Vaccines don’t confer 100 percent immunity, but when all children are immunized, it creates what is called herd immunity, which makes everyone safer, especially babies.

Honey, I Swept the Floor!

Why do so many husbands feel the need to boast about completing simple household chores? With mine, it’s all about branding.