Almost three years after our daughter was born, we added a son to our family, much to my husband, brother, and father’s delight. At first, I didn’t really get their enthusiasm about adding to the male ranks of our family (silly, I guess, considering how excited I had been when we found out our firstborn …

Lisa Lewis, a paediatrician and author of “Feed the baby Hummus,” first began researching cultural differences in child-rearing techniques 20 years ago. She told The Independent: “What really got me going was over twenty years ago when I first noticed that there were cultures around the world that put their babies to sleep differently. “When …

Dads who adore their daughters excite internet users everywhere. Michael Mitchell has a blog called Life to Her Years where he gathers other dads’ advice. Michael turned the ways of fatherhood into a life philosophy and he inspires a lot of people from all over the world. We gathered the most interesting tips about raising …

Children no longer have the early life experiences that many agree are required to produce a well-adjusted, productive member of society. Parents in the modern world are bombarded with horror stories of what could happen to their child if even the slightest problem occurs in their development, and that fact, ironically, leads many parents to …

LEARN FROM WHAT WORKS We all want our children to be healthy and happy, but food—the very thing that should nourish the next generation—has become a battleground for many families, and the source of much confusion and controversy in the media. According to the results of a major worldwide health study published in The Lancet, …