Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader whose sibling moved away and then canceled a family trip.
New York City will start offering free child care for 2-year-olds this fall. A question for the Mamdani administration is whether it will be available past 2:30 p.m.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
The high schoolers fighting back against tech use.
Practitioners nationwide are striving to do what’s best for children’s health, while staying supportive in the face of mistrust and confusion.
Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.
Mounting evidence shows that excessive computer use can harm children, so parents are cutting back at home. Now, the debate has shifted to the classroom.
A fashion insider and two culture writers dissect “America’s Next Top Model.”
Existió un tiempo en que los niños en Estados Unidos comían mariscos, rábanos y conservas sin quejarse. Ahora vivimos en una cultura del remilgo.
The country is casting an ever wider net in its search for accountability after mass shootings. Charging parents is an emerging tactic.
It has always been expensive, but recently prices have risen faster than inflation.
I worry that I’m piling assumptions onto a family I know nothing about, a family that might be doing its best.
The city has been absent from the list of school districts around the nation that are using A.I. in the classroom. That could change.
A jury found that Colin Gray, the father of the suspect, bore criminal responsibility for the attack at a Georgia school by failing to heed warnings of his son’s struggles.
En ‘El arte perdido de educar’, Michaeleen Doucleff prometió simplificar la vida familiar. En su nuevo libro, ‘Dopamine Kids’, plantea un reto mayor: ¿pueden los padres renunciar a sus propios vicios y volver a lo esencial?
Christian teachers and parents challenged the state’s policies, which they say require schools to hide students’ transgender status from their parents.
This could be a pivotal year in shaping what role artificial intelligence plays in American schools. Some families want Mayor Mamdani to hit the brakes.
Parents in China are turning to A.I. chatbots and other tools to help their children gain an edge and ease the fighting over homework.
Parents in China are using homegrown chatbots like DeepSeek and Doubao as well as Google’s Gemini to help their children with homework and give them an academic edge.
For many New York City parents, the quest to find an affordable, convenient summer camp amounts to an unpleasant annual hazing ritual.
In “Hunt, Gather, Parent,” Michaeleen Doucleff promised to make family life easier. Her new book, “Dopamine Kids,” asks something harder: Can parents give up their own vices and let kids go back to the basics?
Luxury travel with children? At places like these, it’s highly possible.
Parents will receive notifications if a child has used the platform repeatedly to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm, but users must opt in to get them.
A ruling on a dispute over quality time.
Helena de Groot thought she had decided not to become a mother. But, she found, she had to make that decision over and over again.
We need stories that are more adult than Y.A. and less explicit than HBO.
Why are we still debating paternity leave?
I’ve found myself carrying negative feelings that I don’t want but can’t quite shake.
Cuando no te pones de acuerdo con tu pareja sobre el lugar más adecuado para vivir, el hogar puede convertirse en un infierno.
Across the country, dads are donning sparkly blazers and purple wigs to bond with their Gen Z and Alpha kids on their own turf, be it the Eras Tour or “KPop Demon Hunters.”
A champion speedskater spoke to reporters with her toddler. The focus on her child was among several instances at the Olympics that highlighted the complexities working mothers face in Italy.
In many ways, the parents whose adolescents had been receiving treatment at NYU Langone Health had been expecting this call. Still, they were stunned.
At 16, out of love with the sport, Liu stepped away. Controlling her career, after years of oversight from her father, was the only way she could return.
A growing number of states are debating whether to alter their policies on summoning child protection officials if a student has excessive absences.
When your child races headfirst down an ice chute, leaps off ski jumps or performs snowboard tricks in midair, a medal may not be the main thing you pray for.
Fans have fallen hard for plush dolls representing Tina and Milo, the mascots of Italy’s Winter Games.
You can still have a village.
Readers discuss a guest essay asserting that formula promotes marriage equality. Also: Ethics and the Supreme Court.
Blame junk food.
With such a small risk of illness, does this type of embryo selection border on eugenics?
When you can’t agree on the right city to live in, home can be more hell than haven.
Labor force participation for women with small children continues to float above prepandemic levels, thanks to flexible work setups — and rising costs.
I was wrong about how to push back.
Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.
Discussion of women in the workplace often focuses on flexible hours, but what’s actually needed is shift work — pioneered by the medical profession.
Children under 12 need different versions of Covid vaccines, but many pharmacies and pediatricians’ offices aren’t stocking them.
“We should be thinking that we’re heading for more damaging changes.”
Public health advocates hoped that the measles outbreak might persuade the reluctant to get shots. That has not turned out to be true.
David Wallace-Wells and Emily Oster argue that the effects of MAHA will be long-lasting.
In a neighborhood that appeals to people from both the right and the left, residents strive for a finely tuned state of political harmony.
These parents believe in home-schooling and distrust food and drug companies. In Kennedy, they see “a bull in the china shop.”
As trust in medicine declines and vaccine hesitancy spreads, doctors are changing how they talk about lifesaving childhood shots.
Voters in the Virginia suburbs shifted toward Trump. Some said they were still frustrated by pandemic closures and fights over gender, race and testing in schools.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
More people are rejecting the false binary of remote work vs. the corporate ladder.
Four years after the pandemic began, parents continue to struggle with a broken child care system, but there’s reason to hope for a better future.
In her elegant essay collection, “Lessons for Survival,” Emily Raboteau confronts climate collapse, societal breakdown and the Covid pandemic while trying to raise children in a responsible way.
Después de la pandemia, el invierno parece ser un desfile interminable de malestares. ¿Pasó algo?
Post-pandemic, winter has become one big blur of coughs and colds. Did something change?
Post-pandemic work-from-home norms allowed more women to stay in the work force than ever before. Remote work could also make it harder to get ahead.
The share of women working has reached a record high, with the biggest increases among mothers of children under 5.
Readers disagree with an essay expressing concern about a decline after a peak. Also: Rudy Giuliani’s drinking; book bans; masks in hospitals; wedding magic.
A substantial share of fathers who took on more domestic work during lockdowns have kept it up, new data shows, and rearranged their work lives to do so.
Readers criticize a column by Bret Stephens asserting that mask mandates were ineffective. Also: Children and loss; John Fetterman; population growth.
When a viral question goes viral.
The pandemic gave some parents a reprieve. That may be over.
A baby boomlet may not have been 2021’s only productivity increase.
As programs expire, such federal spending is returning to prior levels: $1 for every $6 spent on older adults.
Definitive statements on open questions isn’t the way.
Readers react to an editorial urging an indictment to show that he “is not above the law.” Also: Abortion and data privacy; Moderna’s suit; children’s mental health.
Según los expertos, los niños no tienen riesgo alto de infección. Pero ofrecen consejos para cuidar a todos en el regreso a clases, desde los más pequeños hasta los universitarios.
Experts say children are not at a high risk of infection. But they have advice to keep everyone — from toddlers to college kids — safe.
The crisis kids face at this point in the pandemic is not the virus but the cost of so many years of disrupted school.
They were once Democrats and Republicans. But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November’s midterms.
In a new survey, 43 percent of parents of children ages 6 months through 4 years said they would refuse the shots for their kids. An additional 27 percent were uncertain.
We all know what happened with summer 2020. Then 2021 was dampened by Delta. This year, any anticipated return to revelry has been hampered by … *waves hands at everything.* Is there hope for enjoying the once fun season?
When my adult children came home during Covid lockdown, I loved feeling I could protect them.
The payoff feels somewhat anticlimactic.
It was a milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, 18 months after adults first began receiving shots against the virus. The response from parents was notably muted.
Although opening up shots for children under 5 is a milestone, this long-awaited phase of the U.S. immunization effort is being greeted with mixed emotions.
The vaccines seem safe for children and are likely to protect against severe illness. But data on efficacy is thin, and most children have already been infected.
Parents of 4-year-olds should start the vaccination process as soon as possible, according to experts, even if that means beginning with the lower-dose version.
Here are answers to five common questions.
Some scientists believe that a clearer picture of Covid vaccine efficacy could have emerged sooner if investigators had tracked certain immune cells, not just antibodies.
Covid vaccines for young children are finally coming.
Times readers with babies, toddlers or preschoolers who are unvaccinated against the coronavirus wrote in about worries and strains, loneliness and lost time.
Take this Times test to find out.
My fourth grader thinks about every event she’s missed, and I can’t pretend it doesn’t hurt.
A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal consequences.