Parenting: Interesting Stories from The New York Times

Here is the latest Parenting News from The New York Times.

Well Family: A New Name and New Home for Motherlode
The Times is introducing Well Family, a new online report with expanded coverage of parenting, childhood health and relationships to help every family live well.

Whether Our Foster Child Stays or Goes, He Is Loved
I can’t promise that our foster son can stay with us, but I can I try to prepare him for the possibility of leaving without adding to his fear.

The School Conference Blues
As much as parents want to know about areas that our children are struggling in, we’re also wondering what teachers like about them.

When Another Child Wants to Be Friends and Yours Does Not
By the time children are in middle school, parents should be stepping back. But what if another child won’t stop annoying yours?

A Family Adds Five Children, Special Needs and All
In November, this family adopted five young children from foster care.

Calorie Counts on the Kids’ Menu
Will posting nutritional information at chain restaurants change our behavior, and our weight?

Stop Asking if My 4-Year-Old Has a ‘Girlfriend’
Gender indoctrination for the pre-K set.

Food Lessons From Families of Kids With Allergies
They have something to teach the rest of us about healthful eating: It’s not as hard as we think.

Why Teenage Girls Roll Their Eyes
Eye-rolling serves a variety of purposes, and the meanings behind the mannerism tell us a lot about what it’s like to be a teenager.

Mile 13 in the Military Marathon
Halfway through a deployment, looking for the “I can do this” moment.

Doctor’s Orders: Stay in Bed and Do Nothing
Bed rest is like Las Vegas. It’s nice for three days, but stay any longer and you might lose your mind.

A Blended Family Survival Guide
Blend is how you make smoothies. Put children in a family ‘blender’ and something quite different happens.

A Conversation With ‘The Restaurant Critic’s Wife’
A real restaurant critic’s wife writes a novel, “The Restaurant Critic’s Wife,” with just enough truth in the fiction.

Two Cooks, Two Kitchens, Two Organizing Plans
Do different cooks need different approaches to organizing the kitchen?

Why Students Lie, and Why We Fall for It
All kids lie, the writer Maria Konnikova says. It’s a part of growing up, testing limits and adjusting to social expectations and norms.

Learning to Walk Alone
My daughter took her first steps in a homeless shelter. In some ways, I did, too.

When a Public Family Is Publicly Attacked
A well known blogger’s children become the target of abuse on Twitter. Should she stop sharing their family stories?

Ask the Experts Your Parenting Questions
Times journalists and experts will answer your questions on family matters.

Six Steps to Curb Materialism in Your Kids
A program helped teenagers learn to distinguish wants from needs.

Wanted: Temporary Foster Homes for Newborns
Interim caregivers provide a temporary home for an infant whose parents need time to decide what’s next.

Six Steps to Teaching Children About the Stock Market
The goal of letting kids invest is to teach them that buying individual stocks is essentially gambling before there’s much money involved.

Parents Monitoring Teenagers Online, and Mostly, Getting It Right
Parents are relying more on talk than tools to monitor teenagers online.

A Less Prominent Career, a More Primary Parent, and Satisfied
Taking the lead role in parenting, and supporting a spouse’s career, isn’t necessarily a compromise.

Get Paid to Organize Your Children’s Closets (and Yours)
Three bags of unwanted clothing turned into $175 in gift cards and $86.09 in Paypal cash.

When Children Say ‘I Can’t,’ but They Can, and Adults Know It
Parents and teachers can inadvertently teach children that feigning incompetence gets results.

Snape Is Dead
With the death of Alan Rickman, who played Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies, our children will experience the curious grief that accompanies the death of someone you knew without knowing.

A Daughter Too Kind for Her Own Good
What we said was “be nice.” What she heard was “you don’t matter.”

A Military Wife During Deployment Is Asked, ‘Is It Worth It?’
A 5-year-old’s wail at a family party: “I don’t want YOUR daddy. Not Finley’s daddy, or Addie’s daddy, I want MY daddy.”

When Your Child’s Friend Is in Crisis
When your son stays up through the night to text with a buddy who is falling apart, you need to step in. But how?

‘Nice Try!’ Is Not Enough
Too many parents misunderstand and misuse the concept of the “growth mind-set.”

Loving a Grandpa Right Down to His Toes
There are some things only life can teach our children. Living with dying is one of them.

To Love, and Maybe Lose, a Foster Child
In this courtroom, where time is tight and details are long, genes trump all else. We were not an option. We were a footnote.

Has Your Student Experienced Racism in High School?
Is there racial insensitivity in your high school, and how do officials respond?

A Day at the Bookstore for All Kids
Taking a preschool class on a field trip into the mostly unknown: a bookstore.

Coming of Age, Whether They Like It or Not
With a ritual like a bar mitzvah, kids learn to take on something that is extraordinarily hard, something that takes persistence and focus.