Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. One morning a couple of years ago, during the awkward hour between my ...

My kids loved their private elementary school because they got to learn in small groups outside. They missed out on a lot, ...

Mr. Halpern is a journalist and author. He and Michael Sloan shared the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning for “Welcome to the New World,” a 20-part series in The New York Times. Within our ...

This essay was adapted from the parenting newsletter the Pomegranate. Subscribe here. When my son was about 2, we brought him to a beer garden in D.C. that turned out to have a working historic ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mary Frances Ruskell graduated from high school last month in Columbia, South Carolina. She will be attending Dartmouth College in the fall. Haarlem, the Netherlands — The summer before ...

Parenting with confidence and ease seems to get harder each week. How do we honestly encourage our children to believe in a safe future when headlines are covered with violence, from the streets of ...

The cover of "10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World" and author Jean Twenge. (Courtesy of Atria Books and Pam Davis) For parents raising their kids in the age of phones, social media and the ...

I like Lincoln. I like its top-notch school system and its parks. I like its beautiful antique homes shaded by majestic old trees. I like that the streets are laid out in a grid pattern, making it ...

I've traveled to 90 countries, and I've been lucky enough to take my kids with me to 19 of them. Poland and Turkey have been some of our favorite places to explore as a family. However, we're not ...

After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Eddie Slaughter, 37, a barbershop owner, and Trump voter, in Dunedin, Fla., was celebrating. Slaughter is also a father of four. His two older kids, ...

Kids World returns to Franklin Park in Northwest D.C. this Saturday and Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. after last year’s inaugural event drew over 7,000 people over three days. WTOP caught up with the ...