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One of my clearest memories from high school in the late 1980s isn’t a specific party, but the hunt for one. A car full of […]

A wave of new technology now lets you oversee your kids’ ­every move. Which raises the question: Do you really want to oversee your kids’ every move?

Football player photo via Shutterstock My son spends most of the school day trying to figure out how fast he can get to recess to […]

Like millions of girls across the country, my six-year-old daughter recently decided she wants to be an Olympic gymnast. I don’t have the heart to […]

According to Judith Warner, the new must-read parenting book, Madeline Levine’s Teach Your Children Well, is “a cri de couer from a clinician on the […]

Theories abound about why our generation of parents has become a generation of control freaks. Here are two interesting takes from interviews I did while […]

The six different overparenting archetypes.

See Jane. See Jane walk downstairs. Clap, Mom and Dad, clap! See Mom and Dad clap, clap, clap. For everything Jane does. Welcome to the age of overparenting.

“Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place / When you handle the master carpenter’s tools / Chances are […]

What’s a helicopter parent? Someone who hovers more than you do. Seriously, nobody tries to be a helicopter parent. But parenting is the toughest job […]

In August, we were winding down a day at the beach when our eight-year-old son started scaling the rocky face of a steep hill behind […]