Family

Let us help navigate daily life with your growing family, with everything from kids’ craft and activity ideas to advice on discipline and birthday party inspiration.

11 simple dinner shortcuts

11 simple dinner shortcuts

Stock your kitchen with a few key store-bought items and these simple dinners will be a cinch to pull off.

Today's Parent

Chore charts: 8 DIY ideas

Chore charts: 8 DIY ideas

Laura Grande

How to make sure drivers can see your trick-or-treater

How to make sure drivers can see your trick-or-treater

Try one of these options before you head out for the big night!

Today's Parent

The disability isn't the problem

The disability isn't the problem

Kate Wilson

4 fun cross-stitch pumpkin templates

4 fun cross-stitch pumpkin templates

Turn your jack-o'-lantern into a work of art with these boo-tiful designs.

Today's Parent

Kid’s screen time: It’s okay, you don’t need to burn all your gadgets

Kid’s screen time: It’s okay, you don’t need to burn all your gadgets

Don’t feel guilty about all those PAW Patrol episodes. New screen-time recommendations encourage parents to consider the whole family’s media use.

Jason Anderson

How to help your pushover kid

How to help your pushover kid

Most parents don’t set out to raise a pushover kid. But balancing the importance of following rules, without teaching a child to be too passive, can be tricky.

Lisa Murphy

#ThisIsMyLife: Halloween costumes

#ThisIsMyLife: Halloween costumes

The blood, sweat and tears of a homemade Halloween costume—sometimes you just can't bedazzle that sh*t.

Leah Rumack

5 tips for giving your kid eye drops

5 tips for giving your kid eye drops

Ian passes along his—somewhat successful—tips on giving your child eye drops.

Ian Mendes

15 awesome remote-controlled toys

15 awesome remote-controlled toys

Alex Mlynek

What to do when you don't like your child's teacher

What to do when you don't like your child's teacher

There are many reasons for possible parent-teacher conflicts. Here's what to do when you don't like your child's teacher.

Dana Dougherty Reinke

Why women should consider getting the HPV vaccine

Why women should consider getting the HPV vaccine

With HPV on the rise among women in their 30s and 40s, it's not just your kid who you should consider getting vaccinated. Here are five things you need to know about the HPV vaccine.

Flannery Dean

How to channel your overactive child's energy

How to channel your overactive child's energy

Some kids are just more intense, energetic and persistent than average. Here are some things you should—and shouldn't—do when raising spirited children.

Lisa Bendall

Is Halloween’s blood and gore appropriate for kids?

Is Halloween’s blood and gore appropriate for kids?

Two parents debate whether or not Halloween should be a celebration of blood, fear and death.

David Eddie

9 kid-friendly activities to check out at the Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour

9 kid-friendly activities to check out at the Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour

This cross-country, super-Canadian event, which kicks off in Newmarket, Ont., has so much for hockey-loving families to do!

Emily Rivas

15 healthy bedtime snacks kids love

15 healthy bedtime snacks kids love

Fill little tummies and get your kids ready for sleep with these tasty bedtime snacks.

Alex Mlynek

Adorable DIY picture collage

Adorable DIY picture collage

Alyssa Ashton

New book: 100 parenting milestones you never saw coming

New book: 100 parenting milestones you never saw coming

This hilarious new book lists all the funny and gross milestones that the experts don't tell you about.

Raquel D'Apice

The debate: Do you discipline other people’s kids at the playground?

The debate: Do you discipline other people’s kids at the playground?

When it comes to other people's kids, do you lay down the law—or turn a blind eye? Two parents hash it out.

Derek Malcolm

#ThisIsMyLife: 6 parenting studies we wish they would do

#ThisIsMyLife: 6 parenting studies we wish they would do

Dad should breastfeed, pregnant ladies should gorge on poutine and ipads are actually great for toddlers' brains. Because SCIENCE.

Leah Rumack