Parenting

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   Forget the executive orders. Forget the division. Forget everything you learned in high school biology. Instead, I want

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com   In 2016, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine made some pretty wild recommendations about how much sleep kids

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com As a parent, I see a lot of things normalized that I wish weren’t. Things like violence, hypersexualization, gender

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com A certain concept has made the rounds in many parenting circles. I don’t know how I feel about this

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com My daughter is entering her last year of middle school and she and her friends are navigating some difficult

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Middle school and junior high are challenging times for many adolescents. When I was that age, I was constantly

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Tonight, I feel like an awful parent. I feel like a failure. These feelings don’t happen very often, but when

By Melissa Stefanec  | MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com I am officially 150-parenting-columns old. That means I’ve been doling out advice and baring my soul to total strangers for

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com If you’re a fellow parent, your day might have looked something like mine. It was likely just as crazy, because

By Melissa Stefanec  |  MelissaStefanec@yahoo.com Recently, my family was sitting around the dinner table. My 12-year-old daughter had just joined us, fresh from an hour