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18 top toys for big kids

18 top toys for big kids

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Why is it my job to help my kid buy Christmas gifts for my ex-husband?

Why is it my job to help my kid buy Christmas gifts for my ex-husband?

I’m so sick of spending money—and precious time—on Christmas gifts for my daughter’s dad and his new wife.

Lola Augustine Brown

How to manage your sports-loving kid's outsized emotions

How to manage your sports-loving kid's outsized emotions

If your kid overreacts to their favourite sports team's wins and losses, here’s how to help them manage their emotions and understand it's just a game.

Today's Parent

20 of the Year's Top Toys

20 of the Year's Top Toys

These new toys for 2019 were the highest-ranking and scored best-in-class for playability, design and overall awesomeness.

Today's Parent

17 best toys for big kids

17 best toys for big kids

Choosing the right gifts for kids is tough. Get those hard-to-buy-for eight-plus year olds toys that double up as brain games, crafty activities and more.

Today's Parent

12 reasons your friends with older kids are happier than you

12 reasons your friends with older kids are happier than you

Don't be jealous. Your day is coming. And when it does, your friends' kids will be smelly, hormonal, door-slamming teenagers.

Joanna Myers

Lego Friends Heartlake Pet Centre

Lego Friends Heartlake Pet Centre

Lego Friends Heartlake Pet Centre is a mini-figure pet paradise that includes everything from a playground to a groomer and a store for all your pet needs.

Crayola Colour Chemistry Lab Set

Crayola Colour Chemistry Lab Set

The Crayola Colour Chemistry Lab Set includes basic supplies and instructions for over 50 colour-based experiments to encourage young scientists.

Lego Friends Heartlake City Resort

Lego Friends Heartlake City Resort

Lego Friends Heartlake City Resort is as much building as it is kicking it seaside whether you ride the monorail, stop by the juice bar or go parasailing.

SmartLab Spa Soaps Forest Friends

SmartLab Spa Soaps Forest Friends

From flowers and acorns to cute woodland creatures, making soaps with SmartLab Spa Soaps Forest Friends is good clean fun!

Ravensburger GraviTrax Starter Set

Ravensburger GraviTrax Starter Set

The Ravensburger GraviTrax Starter Set gives kids a hands-on introduction to physics, with helpful quizzes and a user-friendly design.

Keys to the Castle Game

Keys to the Castle Game

The Keys to the Castle game is a fun, quick-paced strategy game that's easy enough for kids to set up and play on their own—but you'll want to play, too.

Shadows in the Forest Game

Shadows in the Forest Game

A board game that's like hide-and-go-seek but in the dark? That's Shadows in the Forest. Reveal the shadowlings before they gather in this multiplayer game!

Lego Ninjago Firstbourne

Lego Ninjago Firstbourne

Lego Ninjago Firstbourne is an epic ninja warriors set that your kid can build and play with by coming up with their own imaginative stories.

Calling all tired moms! This genius grocery cart hack will save your back

Calling all tired moms! This genius grocery cart hack will save your back

Tired of lifting your kid in and out of the grocery cart? This hack is so simple, you'll be shocked that you never thought of it before.

Kevin John Siazon

Outsized expectations: What it’s like when your kid is big for his age

Outsized expectations: What it’s like when your kid is big for his age

I’m tired of dealing with strangers’ assumptions of what a kid should look like at a certain age.

E. Sutherland

How to help your kid cope with bedwetting

How to help your kid cope with bedwetting

Bedwetting can lead to a lot of anxiety for kids, especially as they get older—here's how you can help ease your kid's worries.

Louise Gleeson

6 products that help with bedwetting

6 products that help with bedwetting

From waterproof sheets to bedwetting alarms, these bedwetting products can make cleanup a bit easier and get your kid get to dry nights.

Sadiya Dendar

How to know when your kid can ride without his booster seat

How to know when your kid can ride without his booster seat

Your kid might technically be old enough to ditch the booster seat, but that doesn’t mean you should.

Astrid van den Broek

What you need to know before your kid gets braces

What you need to know before your kid gets braces

Here’s what to expect if your kid is referred to an orthodontist.

Astrid van den Broek