
Dear New Owners of Chuck E. Cheese
I used to call it Chuck E. Sneezes, because one or all three of us would contract some sort of upper respiratory virus within 48 hours of visiting your facilities.

Mom, You Did Something Right. “Wait, What?”
When your parenting is chronicled for all to see, you run the risk of screwing it up in a big public way.

Help! I Hate Playing with My Kids.
Though my kids have never complained about it, I feel horrible that I just don’t like to play with them.

Keep Your Flash Cards Out of Our Gym Classes
Learning about geometry while you’re supposed to be just running around? That’s all wrong.

New Study Cautions Moms Against Hovering Over Play
A new study from the University of Missouri found that the “more directive” (ahem, “helicoptery”) mothers are during play, the less engaged children were with them.

Parents Less Likely to Take Girls Outside to Play
Preschool girls are 16% less likely than boys their age to be taken outside by their parents to play.

Is Your Backyard Thunderdome or M.I.T.?
It was like Mad Max for the elementary school set: “Two men enter. One man leaves.”