The screen time rule for kids just changed

For more than two decades, parents were told to keep kids recreational screen time under two hours a day. That guidance is now officially gone. In January 2026, the American Academy of Pediatrics retired its longstanding hourly framework in favor of a more nuanced policy that asks families to weigh online activity within the broader…

ByDorcas OnasaJuly 17, 20260Comments

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Ways childhood trauma shows up in toddlers and how to help them

Childhood trauma is one of the harder realities of parenting to sit with, partly because it can be difficult to recognize and even harder to know how to address. Children do not process distressing experiences the way adults do their brains are still developing, their emotional vocabulary is limited, and their understanding of what happened…

ByDorcas OnasaMay 29, 20260Comments

Parenthood

4 real reasons your child prefers the other parent

For a lot of parents, there comes a moment at bedtime, after a scraped knee, or on a slow Sunday afternoon when the child makes their preference crystal clear. Not you. The other one. And no matter how well you understand the logic behind it, it still lands differently than you expect. It is one…

ByDorcas OnasaMay 6, 20260Comments

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