Parenting Styles

Your Social Distancing Parenting Style, Based on Your Zodiac Sign

Pride yourself on your stockpiling organizational strategy? Counting down the hours until you can take a luxurious albeit brief shower? Here's what your sun sign says about your parenting style during the pandemic.

Who Is Generation Alpha?

Kids of Millennials and Gen Xers are currently poised to inherit the world. But who are they and what can parents expect from them? A lot, as it turns out, because “kids these days” are extraordinary.

A Year-by-Year Guide to the Different Generations and Their Personalities

From Boomers to Gen Z, experts break down America's generational timeline, offer insight into who's who, and take a look at how parenting has evolved throughout the years.

The Year of the Rat: Your Family's 2020 Chinese New Year Horoscope

Families will find that the year of the Metal Rat will be unusually busy, but one where much is accomplished. Find out what else is in store in the Chinese Lunar New Year which kicks off January 25, 2020.

5 Things We Can All Learn from Tiger Parents

As a former "tiger cub" and mother of four, I know the bad rep tiger parents can get. But there are lessons to learn from every style of parenting.

Authoritative Parenting: The Pros and Cons, According to a Child Psychologist

Striking the perfect balance between too strict and too lenient, authoritative parents enjoy kids who are well rounded, feel respected and valued, and possess good behavior too. Learn the pros and cons of authoritative parenting.

5 Steps to Quit Yelling at Your Kids—and What to Do Instead

If you erupt when your kids don’t listen or when the play becomes wild, we get it. But here’s how to stop your tirades once and for all—even when you really, really (really) want to yell.

Is Your Child Acting Out—or Just Acting His Age?

If your child melts down, talks back, or ignores you, it could be because he’s still a little kid! Consider this a reality check.

9 Childhood Milestones and the Right Time to Reach Them

5 Little Things You Do for Your Kids That Make a Big Difference

Middle Child Syndrome: Everything You Need to Know

I Was an Only Child by Circumstance, My Son Is an Only Child by Choice

Authoritarian Parenting: The Pros and Cons, According to a Child Psychologist

Often strict and rigid, authoritarian parents expect their kids to follow the rules at all times. But are there some good things about this parenting style? We asked an expert to weigh in.