Parenting

A Cure for the New Year’s Scaries

What is time, anyway?

By Jessica Grose

Alone in a Fancy Hotel Bathroom

Parents’ solo-vacation fantasies, hopefully realized in 2021.

By Jessica Grose

Moms on the Frontlines

Health care workers are still fighting to keep their homes and communities safe.

By Jessica Grose

How to Get a Fragrant Tween to Shower

And why they don’t want to in the first place.

By Jessica Grose

What It Means to Home-School

Portraits of families who opted-out of — or had to leave — traditional education.

By Jessica Grose

The Freedom and Fulfillment of Home-Schooling

Nine families shared with us why they chose to educate their children outside the traditional school system.

A Family Looks Back on Their Hybrid Home-School Experience

Seven perspectives on home-schooling in the 80s and 90s.

By Lyz Lenz

Kids Seeking Asylum Find Some Measure of It in One Makeshift School

When the pandemic hit, volunteers had to find creative ways to educate migrant children living in limbo near the U.S.-Mexico border.

By Myriam Vidal Valero and Rodrigo Pérez Ortega

The Year in Pandemic Parenting

Scenes and snippets from families across the country.

By Dani Blum

5 Ways Families Can Prepare as Coronavirus Cases Surge

As winter approaches, we still need to be vigilant about taking precautions.

By Christina Caron

Can I Safely Send My Kid to Day Care? We Asked the Experts

As states struggle with reopening, parents are scrambling to figure out child care amid a fall surge of coronavirus.

By Emily Sohn

‘Extreme Pain, but Also Extreme Joy’

We followed several providers as demand for their services rose.

By Christina Caron and Maggie Shannon

It’s OK to Watch ‘Schitt’s Creek’ With Your Kids

For some families, the pandemic has meant relaxing restrictions on what constitutes family TV. Here’s why that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

By Carrie Goldman

Your 4-Year-Old

Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

By Meghan MacLean Weir, M.D.

Your 9-Month-Old

Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

By Aaron E. Carroll

Your 1-Year-Old

Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

By Nia Heard-Garris, M.D.

Your 5-Year-Old

Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

By Nia Heard-Garris, M.D.

Your 15-Month-Old

Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

By Meghan MacLean Weir, M.D.

‘It’s Pretty Brutal’: The Sandwich Generation Pays a Price

Parents feel emotionally and financially stressed by caring for young children and older relatives at the same time.

By Jessica Grose

Your Cheatin’ Wallet

How to recognize financial infidelity and stop it from eroding your family’s trust.

By Jancee Dunn

What I Spent to Adopt My Child

Three families share their adoption stories, illuminating the variety of choices — and costs — involved in the process.

By David Dodge

Are Expensive Activities for Kids a Rip-Off?

Circus school?!

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

How Not to Fight About Money After Kids

NYT Parenting readers shared their experiences and advice.

By Dani Blum