Raise with Care:

A Parenting Blog

Getting out the door in the morning can be like running a marathon when you’re a parent. It’s not just sorting through the mental checklist that’s a lot; it’s getting your child to actually cooperate in the process. The scene is a familiar one: Asking your child to brush their teeth, dress themselves, use the bathroom, […]

If parenting had a Bingo card, photos of your baby’s first bite (or more accurately taste) would be on it. There are few firsts that are more documented. What follows, though, often goes from cute and photogenic to messy and exhausting. Feeding little ones takes up a lot of time. There is the preparation: the […]

Becoming a parent is a magical experience, but it’s also one of the hardest. Everything changes in an instant — including relationships between significant others. Sometimes one of the toughest parts of parenting isn’t even childcare: it’s navigating a new and ever-changing set of logistics and challenges with your co-pilot. Thankfully, though, there are experts […]

Picture a familiar scene: Two three-year-olds sit in a sandbox at the playground and one of them is surrounded by toy cars while the other one stares and watches. The caregiver of the child without any toys directly asks the child with the cars, “Is it okay if we use one?” The child says “no,” […]

As parents, stress takes on a whole new dimension. There is the everyday mental load: packed schedules, playdate planning, laundry cycles, and carpooling. Then, invisible in the background, there is the natural worry of parenting and all the problems we want to solve before they appear. What is a mental load? “I would compare it […]

There’s nothing more personal than how we raise our children. Our values inform an infinite number of daily decisions—such as how to manage screen time—that shape what kind of parents we are. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers baseline recommendations, but ultimately parents need to make their own choices around screen time. Cue the decision […]