Your Parenting

Knee-Jerk Parenting

Threatening to toss the TV to win a parenting battle? Time to change your discipline channel

The Busy Parent's Guide to Volunteering

In as little as a couple of hours, you can help make your child's school a better place

Facebook Etiquette for Parents

Wondering what your tween is up to on Facebook? Check our etiquette guide to befriending your child on social-networking websites

Are You a Digitally Savvy Parent?

An expert shares her secrets to online safety

Tips to Deal with Complicated Carpools

Think you're ready to take the plunge? Randi Chapnik Myers has been there — and survived. Here are her best on-road tips

The Joys of Raising a Boy or Girl

While you're pregnant, your response to "Is it a boy or girl?" was likely "Doesn't matter as long as the baby's healthy." Still, girls and boys bring different experiences to their parents' lives. Two parents offer their top 10 joys of the genders

How Much Time Should Kids Spend Playing Video Games?

Most parents fret about how to control kids' screen time. There's no one answer, and most of us are feeling our way. Here are three different approaches from three different families

How to Raise an Overactive Child

The joys and challenges of raising a kid who is more intense, more energetic and more persistent than average

What's Getting in the Way of Your Maternal Instinct?

From rampant information to kids' toys, find out why your maternal instinct might not be as sharp as you thought

Attachment Parenting

Attachment parenting has recently become a catchphrase for bonding with children. But there's a lot more to it than babywearing and breastfeeding

Boys Versus Girls: How Are They Different?

Boys and girls are different — obviously. But maybe not as much as most parents think

How to Teach Kids to Stop Lying

An age-by-age guide to teaching kids that honesty is the best policy

Same-sex Parenting: The Kids Are Alright

Children's well-being just isn’t a sound argument against same-sex parenting

Nurturing Your Child's Interests

Nurture your child's interest and the skill will likely follow

Explaining Death to Children

All kids encounter grief, and none is too young to cope. Here's why you need to talk openly about death — and help with how to do it

Reacting to Teen Behaviour

Face it — teens are going to get into a little hot water. When that day comes in your family, your reaction can turn down the heat

Street Smarts

Are you armed with the information you need to help your kids stay safe (and you stay calm) when you're not with them? Take our street safety quiz to find out

Parenting Help Wanted

Good parenting sometimes means asking for a hand

Parental Quirks

Why we act daffy around babies...and why that's (mostly) a good thing

Discipline Guide

Strategies for all ages

Are You Ready for Another Baby?

How to figure out what a second child will mean for your energy level, income and marriage

Your One and Only

The pride and prejudices of raising an only child

Raise a Creative Kid

Even If You're Not!

Hand it Over

20 things you can get kids to do as they grow up

To Stop a Bully

Is it fair to make this the job of bystanders?

I Survived My Picky Eater

Purées only, zero vegetables and menus for one. Three families talk about how they cope with their kids' food quirks and Karla Heintz, nutrition educator and author of Picky? Not Me, Mom!, weighs in on what else they might try

Deals and Steals for Canadian Families

We've rounded up some fabulous freebies for families around the web

Raise a Happy Child

All parents want their kids to have a happy life. They also want them to be good people. But which comes first?

Got kids? Shhh!

The anti-parenting "trend" has reached new levels of silliness

Kicking Sugar

One mom's battle to get her kids off the white stuff