Katherine Reynolds Lewis

While schools face the monumental challenge of making up for months of unfinished learning, parents have a role to play at home as well.(Getty Images) Two years into the pandemic, public schools are struggling to help students recover from the…

Families can create a sense of safety for children by establishing routines and rhythms for the day and week, especially those that emphasize connection, such as family dinnertime and a bedtime chat.(Getty Images) The end of a semester can be a…

If your kid still wakes up in the middle of the night or is irritable during the day, they may have an underlying breathing issue. Treatment can help get them the rest they need. Vanessa Lutz, of Henderson, Nevada, grew concerned when her then…

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of dispatches from the Knight Science Journalism Program’s 2020-21 Project Fellows. Our brains are association machines. They rely on our past experiences to predict the future. They take cognitive shortcuts to…

(CNN)Teens, this column is for you. You've been stuck at home with your parents for months now, unable to see any of your friends in person, at least not up close and personal like friends should be. Our current situation is a nightmare for most of…

Ellen Miller, 71, gave her grandsons their first taste of ice cream. She didn’t think anything of it until she saw her daughter-in-law’s face drop after Miller returned home from the ice cream parlor with the boys. She immediately realized she’d…

How to arm kids with tools to deal with the difficult adults in their life Feb 24, 2020·5 min read Jump To Section Photo: Cavan Images/Getty Images When my son was in the third grade, he came home one day complaining about the school librarian. She…

Skulls from the Morton collection at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. Photography by Jonah Rosenberg and Lyndon French A motley crew of scientists argue that our ever-shrinking skulls are wreaking havoc on our well-being Sep 19, 2019·16 min…

I hope we will look back on the recent college admissions scandal involving actresses and coaches at exclusive colleges as the moment when overparenting hit its zenith and began a slide into obscurity. Parents across the Internet are aghast at the…

The transition to high school is possibly the most fraught back-to-school season since kindergarten. Newly minted ninth-graders will be rubbing elbows with seniors who often tower a head above them. For the first time, grades really count. The…

In education, initiatives tend to roll down from above. A district buys a new curriculum, or gets funding for a new program, and principals receive their marching orders, which they in turn hand down to teachers below. That’s not the case at Ohio…

“That’s not fair!” my 11-year-old screamed at me. James stormed from my parents’ porch, where we’d been talking, and slammed the heavy oak and glass door leading into the house. Opened it. Slammed it. Opened it. Slammed it. Soon his angry footsteps…

Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Imagine, for a moment, that you are lying inside an MRI scanner. A giant plastic cylinder surrounds your head and shoulders, and the…

In her new book, “The Art of Screen Time,” Anya Kamenetz, NPR’s lead digital education reporter, tackles possibly the toughest question facing today’s parents: how to manage kids’ use of technology. Kamenetz looks at the latest research about the…

In his new parenting book, the child psychologist Ross Greene outlines his environmentally focused method for remedying misbehavior. Many adult assumptions and practices related to children take for granted that when kids misbehave, the reason is…

In her new book, The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik offers up a more organic approach to raising children. Could a 4-year-old possess better instincts for scientific discovery than a college student? In one experiment, researchers showed…

One of the last nights before my stepdaughter headed off to college, I was sitting on her bed as she snuggled in for sleep. The conversation turned to sex and boys, as she confided that a girlfriend of hers planned to buy and carry condoms with her…

Watching news reports of the 132 dead in the Paris terrorist attacks, it’s natural to feel a jolt of fear. At times like this, we parents must dig deep for the courage we need to lead our families confidently. We can’t parent from a place of fear, or…

When my son was born, I didn’t think twice about choosing a white-sounding name for him. After all, I was named Katherine Mary Reynolds despite being half-Asian, so it almost seemed like a family tradition to have a secret Chinese name that wasn’t on…

June Arbelo, a second-grade teacher at Central School, comforts a student who wants to go home during the first day of school. Tristan Spinski/GRAIN Leigh Robinson was out for a lunchtime walk one brisk day during the spring of 2013 when a call came…