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Why Every Parent Needs a "Board of Directors"

By Matt Berical

Why Kids Have a "Favorite" Parent — And What to Do About It

By Steve Calechman

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This Is the Single Most Important Thing Parents Can Do For Their Kids

By Lizzy Francis

The Biggest Parenting Mistakes I Made, According to Experienced Dads

17 Damn Good Pieces of Marriage Advice For New Parents

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'The Wonder Weeks': Still Influential. Still Wrong.

By Patrick A. Coleman

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50 Pieces of Life-Changing Parenting Advice All Dads Should Read We asked 50 dads for the best parenting advice they ever received. Their answers did not disappoint.

Death by 1,000 (Poopy) Butts: How to Break Out of Your Boring Parenting Routine Parenting can be boring. The daily routine repeats again and again and again. That's the nature of it. But there are ways to break out of it. Here's how.

The Worst Parenting Advice I've Ever Received When you become a parent, everyone has advice. Some of it is great; some of it really, really isn't.

8 Terrible Pieces of Parenting Advice Baby Boomers Need to Stop Telling Us It's time for some of this "back in my day…" advice to be retired.

Karamo Brown Is Feeling it The star is busier — and happier — than he's ever been. And he's full of great advice.

Here's Some Parenting Advice: The Early Bird Gets Some Silence I made a small tweak but it led to an entire world of difference.

Help! I Think My Baby Hates Me Your baby might not be into you right now, but that will probably change.

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She Told Us She Was a Bad Mom. We Should Have Believed Her. Felicity Huffman tried to monetize being a terrible mother on the internet before she was outed for being a terrible mother in real life.

20 Hilarious Parenting Tips From My Elementary Students "Make sure your kids don't die and teach them to brush their teeth."

I Suck at Parenting, and It's Fine I used to feel stressed out about how much I was messing up, but then I realized that embracing it was pure parenting magic.

I Parented Like a Chinese Dad for a Week and My Kids Do Chores Now An American dad in Ohio looks abroad for inspiration and finds some insight.

Don't Ask a Kid to Keep Family Secrets In which a father is asked to come clean about his cheating ways to avoid putting his 8-year-old son in an impossible position.

Father & Child Relationships

Don't Cry Over Spilt Blood Kids get hurt and bounce back. If it's not your fault and the child is okay, don't dwell.

Father & Child Relationships

5 Parenting Lessons I Learned Raising My Kids in Slovenia "One of the first things Slovenians notice about American parents is their tendency to overpraise."

We’re Not Paying As Much Attention to Our Second Kid, but She’s Still Going to Be Awesome How I'm learning to balance raising two young kids.

15 Things You Should Give Up to Be a Happy Parent Because parenting doesn't have to be such a struggle.

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