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Ask Margaret - Can I Say "No Gifts" For My Kid's Birthday?
Birthday parties are terrific but gifts can be a drag. Buying gifts for kids' parties can be an expensive hassle, and your kid receiving gifts can me…
4 years, 8 months ago
Fresh Take: Amanda Knox on Feeling Lost and Finding Hope
Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Waiting to Be Heard. Between 2007 and 20…
4 years, 8 months ago
Highly Sensitive (and Under-Sensitive) Kids
Episode 219
When a parent first hears about highly sensitive kids– or their opposite, sensory seekers– it can provide a profound moment of recognition, of connec…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ask Amy- When The Other Kid Wants To Play But Yours Doesn't
This week's question came from Instagram:
What do you do when another parent wants to set up a playdate with your kid, but you know your kid doesn't w…
4 years, 9 months ago
Fresh Take: Lenore Skenazy on Free-Range Kids and How To "Let Grow"
Lenore Skenazy is the author of Free-range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow, the hugely influential parenting bestseller with a…
4 years, 9 months ago
Am I Making This Harder Than It Needs To Be?
Episode 218
Why are some things hard for us but not our partners or our friends? Do we make things harder than they need to be? Or are some things, like picking …
4 years, 9 months ago
Ask Margaret - What Do I Do About My Kid's Poor Hygiene?
Our kids may be adorable and fresh-smelling when they are little, but somewhere along the way (thanks puberty!) they transform into oily stink-monste…
4 years, 9 months ago
Fresh Take: Nikki Weiner on What's Changed in College Admissions
Nikki Weiner is the founder of Building Bold, and has served as a guest speaker in the U.S. and abroad on writing and the college admissions landscap…
4 years, 9 months ago
Handling the News With Our Kids
Episode 218
The news is hard for anyone to escape these days– and that includes our kids. Even the littlest ones might see a stray notification on a parent's pho…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ask Amy- My Kid Loses Everything!
All kids lose stuff sometimes. Some kids lose stuff all the time. Sometimes it's ADHD or general inattention. Sometimes it's just a slower developmen…
4 years, 9 months ago