Discipline

An age-by-age guide to disciplining your kid

An age-by-age guide to disciplining your kid

What's the best way to discipline a toddler? And what do you do when your kid won't listen to you? Here is an age-by-age guide to disciplining children.

Cheryl Embrett

How to stop your child from hitting

How to stop your child from hitting

What's causing your little slugger's behaviour—and how to make it stop.

Alex Mlynek

PSA, parents of toddlers: age three is way harder than the terrible twos

Toddler behaviour

PSA, parents of toddlers: age three is way harder than the terrible twos

If you're already dealing with a tantrum-prone two-year-old, I'm sorry to tell you that having a threenager is even harder.

Natalie Serianni

How to get your kids to listen: 5 tricks to try

How to get your kids to listen: 5 tricks to try

A psychotherapist shares five simple yet effective tips to help you get your kids to listen. Believe it or not, the first one is to talk to them less!

Liza Finlay

How to discipline a toddler? 12 tactics that actually work

How to discipline a toddler? 12 tactics that actually work

Disciplining toddlers can be tough, but if you're frustrated with your kid's antics, here are some tricks that actually work.

Laura Bickle

How to stop your child's whining

How to stop your child's whining

The most effective way to encourage preschoolers to speak in their big-kid voices.

Erin Phelan

How an art corner helped my daughter manage her feelings

How an art corner helped my daughter manage her feelings

I never saw the benefits of a traditional time out. But escaping to explore her creativity has helped my daughter manage her emotions and think of others.

Erinne Magee

Kick Your Bad Parenting Habits

Kick Your Bad Parenting Habits

Snacks for dinner, screen-addicted kids, co-sleeping and So. Much. Yelling. How to cope when you feel like you’re stuck in a (parenting) rut.

Lisa Kadane

Is yelling at your kids as bad as spanking?

Is yelling at your kids as bad as spanking?

Research claiming yelling at kids is as harmful as hitting or spanking has many parents worried. Learn about the long-term effects for your family.

Lisa van de Geyn

What’s the difference between a tantrum and a meltdown?

What’s the difference between a tantrum and a meltdown?

They can look the same, but their causes are wildly different—as are the best ways to handle them. Here's how to tell what's what.

Lisa Kadane

This viral trick for getting picky kids to eat is legit abusive and needs to stop

This viral trick for getting picky kids to eat is legit abusive and needs to stop

Some parents are posting videos trying out a disturbing tactic that uses stuffed animals to get their picky kids to eat. It's hard to watch.

Kevin John Siazon

5 tantrum triggers and how you can avoid them

Toddler behaviour

5 tantrum triggers and how you can avoid them

Five scenarios that make your toddler more prone to tantrums—and how to avoid them

Jessica Snyder Sachs

4 Parent-Tested Systems You Can Use to Limit Screen Time

4 Parent-Tested Systems You Can Use to Limit Screen Time

Freaked about how technology turns kids into disconnected zombies? These strategies from experts and parents will help you get screen time under control.

Claire Gagne

Toddler discipline methods that ACTUALLY work, according to a data-obsessed economist mom

Toddler behaviour

Toddler discipline methods that ACTUALLY work, according to a data-obsessed economist mom

In her new book, "Cribsheet," data-obsessed economist and mom of two Emily Oster determines which toddler discipline tactics get results.

Emily Oster

What to do when your toddler won't stay in the stroller

Toddler behaviour

What to do when your toddler won't stay in the stroller

Does your kid suddenly hate being strapped in? Here are some survival tactics for when you have no choice and need to get a move on.

Bonnie Schiedel

When your parents suck as grandparents

When your parents suck as grandparents

The baby's finally here, but your parents (or your in-laws) aren't turning out to be the grandparents you had envisioned.

Vanessa Milne

Why tweens have explosive bursts of anger—and how to handle it

Why tweens have explosive bursts of anger—and how to handle it

Your kid used to be able to manage big emotions. Now, he explodes at the drop of a hat. Here’s why your tween has so much anger, and what to do about it.

Claire Gagne

5 things you might not know about spanking (including whether it’s ever OK)

5 things you might not know about spanking (including whether it’s ever OK)

For many parents, the idea of spanking their child is abhorrent. And yet, many parents do it—despite a pile of evidence that it's the wrong approach.

Bonnie Schiedel

Your toddler: 19 months old

Toddler by month

Your toddler: 19 months old

Your toddler is officially closer to 2 than 1, with all the cool milestones, new words, goofy energy and hardcore devotion to favourite stuff to prove it.

Today's Parent

Your toddler: 2 years old

Toddler by month

Your toddler: 2 years old

There’s so much to love about this age, despite the bad rep of the “terrible twos.” Learn all about life with your 2-year-old.

Today's Parent