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

Late last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that more than 100,000 Americans had died from drug overdoses, an average of 275 every day. This amounts to a nearly 30 percent increase from the same period the previous year, a record for the country.

Topics: fentanyl

The debate over free-range parenting began a few decades ago, with the rise of news reports about increases in a kidnapping. Suddenly, kids who for generations had roamed the neighborhood on their own, playing with their friends after dark, and walking alone to school, were under 24-hour lockdown.

Topics: childhood, safety