I'm parenting coach Kristin Gallant with some tips for dealing with toddler temper tantrums. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News, photo: Kristin Gallant) It always seems to happen at the worst possible ...

You scroll through social media, see a perfect parenting moment captured online, and wonder if you're doing everything wrong.

The experience of having children is something that many of us have in common. In fact, in the United States, about 66 percent of women between the ages of 30 and 34 have children, and that number ...

A satirical quiz about parenting failure-styles appeared in “The New Yorker” the other day. It made me laugh out loud, but how impertinent, alluding to the fact that parents aren’t perfect. What about ...

We hear it over and over again, and every book, article, and TV show confirms it: Parenting is the hardest job on the planet.

Parents want nothing but the best for their children, and they certainly don't want them to go through unnecessary hardships. But sometimes making it a priority to prevent children from having any bad ...

In my very first Kids & Culture Alert! newsletter published in April of 2005, I discussed the sad epidemic of fear of failure that was rampant in America then. Well, more than five years later, fear ...

What gave me hope despite my repeated parenting failures. I still remember the first time I suspected that, contrary to my early conceits, I might actually be a terrible father. When our oldest child ...

Failure is one of the most uncomfortable topics for teenagers, and often for parents, too. At a stage where identity, confidence, and peer validation matter deeply, even a small setback can feel ...

The founders of the popular parenting platform Big Little Feelings — moms and real-life best friends Kristin Gallant, a parenting coach with a background in maternal and child education, and Deena ...