Snapshots of life at home.

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• The Perilous Tale of Despereaux Why do G-rated movies have to be so scary?
  Emily Bazelon Dec. 31, 2008
  
• Lie Down Singing How a songbook saved my nighttimes.
  Emily Bazelon Dec. 23, 2008
  
• Oy, Hark! A Jewish parent's guide to Christmas specials.
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 17, 2008
  
• Why Is Obama Our First Black President? Kids' questions about his victory, and their parents' attempts to answer.
  Emily Bazelon Nov. 21, 2008
  
• Why Can't Johnny Jump Tall Buildings? Parents expect way too much from their kids.
  Alan E. Kazdin Nov. 7, 2008
  
• Embarrassing Obama Kids What do you do when your child's partisanship is too extreme?
  Emily Bazelon Nov. 3, 2008
  
• Mom, What's a Credit Default Swap? Books to read your children during a financial crisis.
  Erica S. Perl Oct. 9, 2008
  
• Lost Cause Why do my children lose everything?
  Emily Bazelon Oct. 1, 2008
  
• Spare the Rod Why you shouldn't hit your kids.
  Alan E. Kazdin Sept. 24, 2008
  
• Moving Violations How my kids survived the transition to a new city.
  Emily Bazelon Sept. 11, 2008
  
• Left Behind What happened when my son's best friend moved away.
  Rachael Larimore Sept. 11, 2008
  
• No One Likes a Cheater But no one likes a stickler, either. The letter and spirit of recess law.
  Emily Bazelon Aug. 15, 2008
  
• The Downside of Redshirting The trouble with older kindergarten.
  Emily Bazelon Aug. 1, 2008
  
• "I'm Gonna Take a Leak" What happened when my sons went to an all-boy day camp.
  Emily Bazelon July 25, 2008
  
• See Iron Man Run Hollywood wants to teach your kid to read.
  Erica S. Perl July 22, 2008
  
• The Mac-and-Cheese Effect Why family dinner makes working parents (especially moms) feel better.
  Emily Bazelon July 11, 2008
  
• Family Feuds How to make "timeouts" less like bar fights.
  Alan E. Kazdin June 27, 2008
  
• An Affair To Remember She was 82. He was 95. They had dementia. They fell in love. And then they started having sex.
  Melinda Henneberger June 10, 2008
  
• Is This Tantrum on the Record? The ground rules for writing about your kids.
  Emily Bazelon June 5, 2008
  
• We Are (All) Family Growing up in an "intentional community" isn't as foreign as it sounds.
  Lee Ann Kinkade June 4, 2008
  
• On a Short Leash Did you hear about that Buddhist couple who're never more than 15 feet apart? Well, we tried it.
  David Plotz June 2, 2008
  
• The Case of the Missing Veggie Sticks Staving off my son's panic attacks.
  Emily Bazelon May 15, 2008
  
• I'm Talking to You, Corded! The mismatch of technology and picture books.
  Erica S. Perl May 8, 2008
  
• I Left My Son in San Francisco Learning to quash my alpha-mother tendencies and let my kid grow up.
  Bonnie Goldstein April 24, 2008
  
• My Mother, My Bodyguard The tug of war behind letting your kid ride the subway alone.
  Emily Bazelon April 18, 2008
  
• Tiny Tyrants How to really change your kid's behavior.
  Alan E. Kazdin April 10, 2008
  
• Death to Stuffed Animals! The genius of Webkinz.
  Emily Bazelon March 27, 2008
  
• The Babka Identity Testing kid nostalgia by trying to re-create a beloved cake.
  Emily Bazelon March 13, 2008
  
• Bite Club How I tried to cure my son's fingernail biting.
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 28, 2008
  
• Pennies for Elephants How to raise budding philanthropists.
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 11, 2008
  
• Say You're Sorry! Is forcing your kids to apologize a bad idea?
  Emily Bazelon Jan. 18, 2008