The war in Ukraine is heartbreaking and has been at or near the top of the news for the last couple of weeks. There’s no way kids have missed the constant coverage, but they probably don’t understand what’s going on.

Topics: tips, parents

Two senators have introduced a bipartisan bill to give parents “easy-to-use” tools to help them keep their kids safer online. Introduced by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the Kids Online Safety Act proposes to force online platforms to create ways parents and kids themselves can block harmful content and better control their feeds.

Topics: safety, online, internet safety

One of the topics in this month’s popular and useful Family Table Time kit concerns the subject of patriotism.

Topics: Family Table Time

All through the pandemic, parents and their children wanted nothing more than to return to normal life: regular in-person classes vs. Zoom learning, daily interactions with their friends.

Topics: stress, healthy kids

There’s something about the anonymity and ease of digital communications that often brings out the worst in people, including children.

Topics: Facebook, social media, cyberbully

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that:

Topics: prescription drug abuse, lock your meds, lock your meds pledge, parents, safety

There’s an old joke about a young boy who wakes up Christmas morning and, instead of gifts under the tree, finds a pile of manure. Excitedly he begins shoveling through it, telling his bewildered parents, “There’s got to be a pony in here somewhere!”

Topics: positive parenting, Family Table Time

Nobody likes a tattletale, as the old saying has it. But there’s a difference between “tattling” and “telling,” and it’s important that children understand the difference. Sometimes the distinction is even hard for adults.

Topics: children

Sometimes it seems that dealing with teens is a no-win situation. No matter what parents say or do is “wrong,” at least according to them. It makes you wonder what happened to that sweet person you’ve been living with for well over a decade.

Topics: teenagers, teens

As we celebrate the various holidays clustered around this time of year, we can look around and see all the ways we’re lucky enough to have so much. Not only enough to survive—food, clothing, shelter—but enough to thrive.

Topics: family bonding, Family Table Time