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“The science is clear.” “The science is settled.” “There is no debate about the science of vaccines.” These are just some of the claims about “science”…

I’m tired. Tired of seeing how so many parents in our culture mess their kids up in two words: unhealthy expectations. I’ve never understood why parents pay…

Hospital claims women lose right to refuse surgery when pregnant The organizations listed below represent tens of thousands of women in New York and across…

It’s 5:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning and already my phone chimes with a text message. Life can be a marathon. And with technology creep granting our accessibility…

Lenore Skenazy was called the world’s worst mom when she let her 9-year-old son figure out how to get home on New York subway alone. After the swarm of…

Caption: Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signs a bill into law on March 9, 2015 that will protect Virginia mothers who choose to breastfeed in public after…

"Some parents really struggle with, 'oh, the other kids have the terrible thing, so my kid needs...' Well, how about if you let your kids be a better…

This essay originally appeared as “A Walk in the Woods” in the March/April 2009 issue of Orion magazine. In 2011, it was adapted and expanded in Richard Louv’s…

Children are designed, by nature, to spend huge amounts of time playing freely. That's how they develop social, emotional, and physical skills, and it's how…

He sat at his desk in front of me, tapping his pen in frustration, ‘She’s affecting everybody. She’s just toxic.’ He was describing a dilemma he was facing at…