Eight Great Ways To Keep Kids Safe Online This Summer
It’s summertime and when my kids aren’t at the pool, tossing the ball around in the park or buried in a book, they’re becoming one...
Saving Our Sons: The Cliffnotes Version of My Ebony Series on Black Boys
By NICK CHILES When I decided to become a journalist about three decades ago as a junior at Yale, I envisioned myself stomping across the...
Have A Little Talk With God: Searching For Religion In Motherhood
It’s the pageantry of it all that I remember most. Weeks before Easter, my mother would hit Macy’s, searching through the sale rack for the...
{Dr. Ivor Is In} Teen Babysitting: Is Your Baby Ready To Watch Someone Else’s Baby?
By DR. IVOR HORN For Christmas this year our 13-year-old daughter asked us to help her find babysitting jobs. I ask you, “What teenager ASKS...
What You Do For Love: A Black Father Reflects On “Sacrifice” In Childrearing
By SHAWN TAYLOR Many children have trigger-points. It may be a place, a situation or a person, but when they’re triggered, they go bananas. For example:...
Blended Families: How Couples Can Face Down Baby Mama/Daddy Drama—Together
By ERIC LEGETTE The statistics don’t lie: Over 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Many of these unions produce children and once parents “go their...
What We Need To Teach Black Children In the New Millenium
By SHAWN TAYLOR I am blessed to have received a great education. Maybe it was a time in U.S. history when educating our nation’s children was...
Black Children and Disability: When Race and Stigma Collide, A Black Mom Goes Hard For Her Baby
By TARICE L.S. GRAY I entered parenthood fully embracing the idealism that can be associated with uncertainty. I believed my daughter would be different in the...
They Ask, But Should You Answer? Tackling the Tough Questions With Kids
By SHAWN TAYLOR “When di pickney dem growed.” This was my grandmother’s (rest her soul) response to being asked if children should be told about something heavy happening in...
Paying Homage To The OB-GYN Who Escorted Me Into Motherhood: Happy Mother’s Day!
I was a young reporter when I met her—flat stomach, full of energy, still eating popcorn and rainbow sherbert for dinner, still 120 lbs. soaking...
