Parenting styles

Decoding Teenager Slang: Understanding Today's Youth Speak

Decoding Teenager Slang: Understanding Today's Youth Speak

Learn what your tween or teen is actually saying and why it’s important that you try to keep up.

Alina Jaffer

Permissive Parenting: Traits, Impacts, and Insights

Permissive Parenting: Traits, Impacts, and Insights

To help you understand permissive parenting, we've consulted with experts who share their insights, criticisms, and alternative strategies to consider.

Courtney Leiva

Authoritative Parenting: Balancing Support and Discipline

Authoritative Parenting: Balancing Support and Discipline

Authoritative parents set clear rules and boundaries for their kids, but they also listen to their kids and help them when they need it.

Courtney Leiva

Authoritarian Parenting: Traits, Impacts, and Alternatives

Authoritarian Parenting: Traits, Impacts, and Alternatives

We asked experts to explain authoritarian parenting, its main features, the criticisms it receives, and other parenting styles that can create a caring and supportive atmosphere.

Courtney Leiva

Understanding Uninvolved Parenting and Its Impacts

Understanding Uninvolved Parenting and Its Impacts

While some parents may lean towards permissive, authoritarian, or authoritative approaches, a fourth style stands out as particularly detrimental.

Courtney Leiva

The 4 Main Parenting Styles: Which One Are You?

The 4 Main Parenting Styles: Which One Are You?

The ins and outs of the parenting different styles, how you can blend them, and how cultural and societal factors can influence the way we parent.

Courtney Leiva

The one parenting trick everybody needs to know

The one parenting trick everybody needs to know

Positive reinforcement examples that can encourage your kids to clean their toys, brush their teeth and maybe even be nice to one another.

Lisa Kadane

My twins have different love languages, and it’s exhausting

My twins have different love languages, and it’s exhausting

Karen Habashi

9 signs you have a highly sensitive kid

9 signs you have a highly sensitive kid

Does your kid get overwhelmed by sights and sounds? Do seemingly small things, like clothing tags, really bug them? You might have a highly sensitive child.

Cassandra Drudi

An age-by-age guide to dealing with “I hate you”

An age-by-age guide to dealing with “I hate you”

What to do—and what not to do—when your kid drops the dreaded “H-word.”

Ellen Himelfarb

9 things my kids can never find out

9 things my kids can never find out

I realize that there are a lot of things I don’t want my kids to find out until university. These little lies make life so much easier.

Sheri Segal Glick

Why Good-Enough Parenting Needs To Be A Movement

Why Good-Enough Parenting Needs To Be A Movement

You’ll never be a perfect parent—which is actually a good thing, experts say. Here’s everything you need to know about good-enough parenting.

Crysta Balis

#Dadcrush: 24 portraits of modern fatherhood

#Dadcrush: 24 portraits of modern fatherhood

Our biggest dad crushes on Instagram share their feelings on modern fatherhood. Get the tissues out—you're going to need them.

Today's Parent

Ten things I Worried About When My Kids Were Little that Really Didn't Matter

Ten things I Worried About When My Kids Were Little that Really Didn't Matter

Hey new parents, don’t overthink it: Here are the top 10 things I worried about when my kids were babies that ultimately didn’t matter in the long run.

Kristen Thompson

10 things you and your spouse will definitely fight about in your baby's first year

10 things you and your spouse will definitely fight about in your baby's first year

Caring for a new baby can create rifts in even the strongest of marriages. Here's what parents say are the biggest challenges of the first year.

Kristen Thompson

The sad—but kinda sweet—reason your kid is being a jerk

The sad—but kinda sweet—reason your kid is being a jerk

Is your kid misbehaving to get your attention? For a young child desperate for a parent’s attention, even negative feedback is better than none at all.

Bridgett Miller

10 Proven Ways to Finally Stop Yelling at Your Kids

10 Proven Ways to Finally Stop Yelling at Your Kids

It scares your kids and makes you feel terrible—and experts say it doesn’t even work. Stop yelling with this 10-step program.

Lisa Kadane

How to discipline a toddler who's testing you

Toddler behaviour

How to discipline a toddler who's testing you

As your little one begins to assert their newfound independence, you wonder how to discipline a toddler who won't listen. Don't sweat it— we've got you.

Cassandra Drudi

8 things parents just don’t get about PAW Patrol

8 things parents just don’t get about PAW Patrol

Where are this boy's parents? And why is he allowed to own so many dogs?

Amanda Newman

Yes, Your Smartphone Habit is Affecting Your Kid—Here's How

Yes, Your Smartphone Habit is Affecting Your Kid—Here's How

We've all spent countless hours lost in emails or Instagram, but experts are worried that when we're connecting online, we're connecting less with our kids.

Carissa Halton