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I Feel You, Bro
Gentlemen in TrainingThe Case for Manners for Today’s Young Men – Part 8In my home, we’ve been talking a lot about feelings. Correction: my wife has been doing this all along with my toddler boys, and...
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22 Discipline Ideas That Really Work, Part 1
Embed from Getty Images — Dear Mr. Dad: You’ve talked about how futile it is to discipline an infant. That makes sense. But what about toddlers? A: At one time or another, all parents struggle with...
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Me Time
EVERY SINGLE DAYMy best friend and life coach Alex recently talked me off a steep ledge. Not the Grand Canyon or anything. Just a sharp drop—a few curbs high. Maybe the height of a play structure...
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Hey, Look at Me!
Dear Mr. Dad: My two-year-old daughter constantly wants me to stop what I’m doing and look at her—especially if I’m in the middle of doing something. I try to be encouraging, but it seems to me that a...
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To Be Born Is To Be Exposed
Numb the dark and you numb the light. —Brené Brown My sweet Sadie, as your mom and I planned and prepared for your birth, we dreamed about those first few moments with you. I imagined your soft breath...
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A Child’s Autism Journey In a Generation Growing up Before a Spectrum
— A book publisher recently asked me to write a 52-week blog post series about my life growing up without a spectrum for the website Good Men Project, where I write and am also a Managing Editor. The...
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Pandemic Parenting is Like Watching a Flower Bloom in the Wrong Season
My daughter is 2 ½ years old and says hi to everyone. If she sees a stranger, she immediately says, “hiyo,” toddler talk for hello. It’s adorable and horrifying at the same time. Three years ago, when...
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Tantrums Be Gone
Dear Mr. Dad: My 3-year old throws tantrums all the time. When she does it at home, I can handle it, but when we’re out in public and she goes nuts, I find it very hard to cope. I’ve tried time outs,...
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For Toddlers, Pandemic Shapes Development During Formative Years
By Leah Gullet CASTLE POINT, Mo. — Lucretia Wilks, who runs a small day care out of her home in north St. Louis County, is used to watching young children embrace, hold hands and play together in...
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The Morning Dichotomy
One of the best things that improv teaches us is to be present. To live in the moment. That’s become a buzz phrase lately for every self-help guru and social media influencer. “Just live in the...
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The Terrific Toddler Tongue Twisters
My toddler has a very English accent. I’d like to think she spent many of her early days around a lot of English people but, that has most certainly not been the case. Considering I am South African...
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Parenting Is About Ditching the Cute
My toddler son is crazy about animals. Animals that are extinct, living in the farm or zoo, savannah or sea. You name it, he has at least one toy already. The part that amazes me is that his...
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Traveling With a Toddler Can Shift Your Idea of a “Relaxing” Vacation
The stench slipped through my daughter’s diapers, then through my mask, which, proves why wearing masks doesn’t do much in terms of filtering gas. But, the moment the smell hit my senses, “Dad-mode”...
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Parenting a Toddler Is a Master Class in Negotiation
When my child was 2.5 years old, the high drama started. She was a strong-willed baby-turned-toddler and it had been quietly building up for a while. But one day, when she was in the thick of a...
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For a Successful Toddler’s Nap
I knew that I was not the only parent with a toddler who indicated that their tired but did not want to nap. I thought we had the perfect routine. My tot would get up at six on-the-dot every morning....
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Confession of an AU Pair: The Day I Lost Two Preschoolers in a Forest
I felt Ellie’s fingers loosely holding my hand. Her excited chatter echoed in the woods when a hunch made me look behind me. There was nothing, only trees rustling in the summer breeze. I grabbed her...
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They Say Hurt People Hurt People, but Who Started the Cycle?
Take a moment to think about the very first time you felt emotional pain. Many think of ex-romantic partners, ex-friends, and even as far back as early memories with primary caregivers/parents....
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Moving With a Toddler Is Exactly Like Trying to Put Footie Pyjamas on a Honey...
I borrowed some moving boxes from a friend’s dad a few weeks ago for a move we weren’t anywhere near prepared for. It was awesome — we had no boxes, no time to get boxes, and no money to buy boxes,...
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Toddlers’ Screen Time: Links Between Screen Time and Language Development
By Jaclyn M. Dynia , Rebecca Dore and Randi A. Bates This post is part of our series on Digital Media and Children Under 3, published with collaboration from the journal, Infant Behavior and...
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Navigating Big Toddler Emotions With Your Child
From your very first interactions with them as babies, your kids are learning on the fly how to interact with other human beings. What’s acceptable? What’s effective? What are both, and neither? It’s...
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