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by Sue Shellenbarger 

Children raised with a shared family phone learned several grown-up skills, including proper telephone manners. WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger joins Tanya Rivero to discuss how smartphones could be getting in the way of learning how to speak on the phone to strangers and other etiquette. 

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by Elizabeth Broadbent 

OK, I confess: I let my kids climb up the slide.

Some of you are gasping and shaking your fists. Others are shrugging. Apparently, I discovered recently, the Great Slide Debate is one of the throw-down, gloves-off, all-out mommy wars. We've all heard the old playground mantra: up the stairs and down the slide. Based on the...Read more...

Nine Questions (and a Free Card Game)
to Help You Get Beyond the Ten Plagues This Passover
Written by Behrman House Staff, April 6, 2016

Frogs are a safe, useful, and age-appropriate way to introduce very young children to some of the themes and rituals of Passover. As our children grow older, however, we want to move beyond a focus on these elements to help them develop a deeper understanding of not...Read more...

As an elementary school teacher, I have encountered a broad spectrum of personalities over the years: the rule followers, the troublemakers, the mother hens, the class clowns, the overachievers, the underachievers. You name it, and I've had one in my class. Not surprisingly, meeting with the parents of any of these students explains everything about their...Read more...

ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue. I simply couldn't marshal the necessary focus.

I was horrified. All my life, reading books has been a deep and consistent source of pleasure, learning and solace. Now the books I regularly purchased were piling up ever higher on my bedside table, staring at...Read more...