The All-Important Dog Question THE BARKING at home has become so spirited lately that I worry the neighbors will complain. Thankfully, it’s pretty easy to get it to stop. Our pup ...

At Last, a Lucky Break So your kid used the living room as a kickball field or a cartwheel stage and knocked over the heirloom bowl/vase/pitcher. Enter kintsugi, the Japanese art o ...

• Recent parenting win Getting my daughter Olive to help me load and unload the dishwasher. • Recent parenting miss Losing it when Olive tried to tell me how to drive. • Upsi ...

HELP THEM THRIVE IN EVERY WAY Sugar & Sprinkle Eggs Sparkly sugars and colorful sprinkles can offer as much unbridled joy as glitter. Instead of glue, opt for edible adhesive, a pr ...

Bunny Linzer Cookies Active Time 15 minutes Total Time 45 minutes Makes 10 sandwich cookies INGREDIENTS 1 16.5-oz. roll refrigerated sugar cookie dough½ cup all-purpose flour, plu ...

YOU NEVER asked to be the food police, and yet here you are: negotiating with your kids over steamed vegetables, arguing about staunch food refusals, and handing down “three more ...

• LEAVE IT AT THE DOOR When your child comes in from outdoor play, it’s worth having them change clothes and take a bath or a shower. No time? Make sure they scrub down before ...

IT WASN’T until Spencer, our rescue pup, turned 10 that we threw him his first-ever birthday party. That was in April 2020, and we were in lockdown. My husband, our kids, then 5 ...

5 New Titles to Pick up Now 1. Armadillo Antics Written by Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson, illustrated by Nathalie Beauvois A collab between Martin, the late author of Chicka ...

1 He loves to sleep, no matter where he is. Living in a mattress store would be Wilbur’s heaven. 2 When Wilbur wants me to pet him, he turns upside down and wriggles his body lik ...