New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.
Las aplicaciones de inteligencia artificial que generan desnudos falsos, entre otros problemas de privacidad, hacen que compartir imágenes de tus hijos sea mucho más arriesgado que hace unos años.
David Wallace-Wells and Emily Oster argue that the effects of MAHA will be long-lasting.
Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago.
In a neighborhood that appeals to people from both the right and the left, residents strive for a finely tuned state of political harmony.
Now she’s saying that she’ll cut me out of her will if I don’t have a child.
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?
When I constantly check in with my teenage son, am I really trying to protect him or just calming my own nerves?
Here’s what to know about symptoms and treatment of the infection.
Did the shocking disappearance of a 6-year-old in 1979 forever alter how Americans raised children? Or were there other reasons for parents to be anxious?
I know that craving the high of posting, of all those comments and hearts, is lame, but leaving is really hard.
“Inter Alia,” at the National Theater in London, is a successor to the award-winning “Prima Facie.” It brings familiar tropes, and melodrama.
Economic growth has the unintended side effects of making parenthood more difficult and expensive.
The New York Times is looking to talk to today’s parents, who face challenges that would be unimaginable to previous generations.
Bed sharing tends to be unpopular and contentious in the United States. But in many Asian countries, the question is often not whether to do it, but when to stop.
Una afección del sistema inmunitario le quitó su independencia y nos enseñó a ambas a ver el arte de otra manera.
Mandy Patinkin y Kathryn Grody, artistas de éxito casados desde hace 45 años, reflexionan sobre su nueva fama en TikTok.
Una dentista pediátrica lleva décadas respondiendo a correos electrónicos dirigidos al ratón de los dientes. “Hay algo increíble en hacer algo por alguien que no sabe quién eres”, afirma.
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.