Blog Profile / The Juggle
| URL : | http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/?mod=WSJBlog | |
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| Filed Under: | Lifestyle / Parenting | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1509 | |
| Posts / Week: | 6.4 | |
| Archived Since: | December 12, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Avoiding Airlines’ Littlest Passengers (Good Luck!)
You don't like sharing your airplane with kids, and now you don't have to. It's now possible to fly child-free, The Economist notes, on Malaysian carriers AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines.
Fashion Issues: What Adults Can Learn From Kids About Style
What does fashion have to do with regular people?
BPA Associated With Obesity in Children and Teens
New research, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that children with higher concentrations of BPA were more likely to be obese than children with lower concentrations.
How to Talk to Kids about Death
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The other day I was reading a children’s chapter book to my daughter, in which a group of kids find an unusual animal, and not realizing it is a dead skunk, take it home. They end up smelling a little, well, skunky – and get to bathe in an outdoor wash tub. Show More Summary
App Addiction: Food Makers Hook Kids Using Mobile Games
Your kids' favorite mobile games are also selling them their favorite snacks.
When Separation Anxiety Affects You and Your Spouse
Everett Collection Separation anxiety isn't just an issue that children deal with.
"Last week, when his wife left home for a two-week cruise with her best friend, Robert Sollars stocked up on hamburger meat and peanut butter, then settled into a weekend of football on cable TV. Show More Summary
Livening Up Date Night
Vowing to spend more time with your spouse is one thing. Figuring out what, exactly, to do together is another.
Wedding Vows, Under Revision
Nine years in, a couple makes a new wedding vow: To spend time with each other.
Question of the Day: What is the Best Possible Job for Work-Life Balance?
Are some careers that are more amenable to balancing work and family than others? Or is attitude (and resources) everything?
Is Maternity Leave Wasted on New Parents?
In some ways, I wish I’d just slogged to work those first sleepless, harrowing, confusing months, and now could have the time alone with my little one.
How Do Kids Succeed: Test Taking or Character Building?
High-achieving parents mostly want their children to end up as driven and successful as they are, leading to preschooler cram academies, a test-prep arms race and obsession over school admissions at every level. But is the focus on book learning missing the point?
Is Higher Education Out of Reach for Your Kids?
A recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has found that Americans are lagging behind other developed nations in children obtaining a higher level of education than their parents.
Time to Stop Commemorating 9/11? A Family Answers No
My kids were 2 and 8 the day of the terror attacks 11 years ago. We live right in the Battery Park City neighborhood on Manhattan, across from the Twin Towers. Our family has commemorated the anniversary efotoach year in our own private way since. This year, I had been thinking that it was time remember what happened that day -- but also move on and stop grieving.
Adopting a Child is Increasingly a DIY Endeavor
Get a lawyer, set up a website, create an advertising budget. These may sound like steps needed to launch a business venture, but this is actually the advice professionals give to people looking to adopt a newborn in the U.S.
How Much Homework is Too Much Homework?
How to handle children's homework is a contentious topic among parents. teachers and child psychologists.
Kids or No Kids: Timesharing at the Office
If a flexible schedule is sanctioned by your boss or your company, a coworker’s ill will shouldn’t deter you. Eventually most workers will need to take advantage.
Question of the Week: Pregnancy’s Best Season
Is it better to be heavily pregnant in waning days of summer or the dead of winter?
In the U.K., Teddy Bears Are Forever
The fact is, here in the U.K. if there is one thing from childhood you—or your parents—are likely to keep, it’s your bear. In fact, not having a bear is not seen as a sign of a sensible and mature adulthood. Rather, we think, it alerts one to a personality decidedly on the chilly side.
Uptick in College Students Seeking Counseling, Financial Support
For college students in general this fall, financial hassles are making the new school year transition much harder.
Goodbye to a Summer Sans Memories
It's difficult to plan good times together for a big family when in money-saving staycation mode. When do you force kids to go on outings when they'd rather stay home?