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5 books featuring dark woods where dark things happen

Parents / Mom's Advice / Oct 20, 2025

There are countless reasons why the woods make for a great setting in novels.

In the woods, it’s easy for us to get lost, easy to think we’re progressing towards a destination only to find ourselves back where we started, easy to disappear. In the woods, technology is unreliable, and often we find it best to leave our phones behind. Our ...Read more

Which Kind of Country Will We Be?

Parents / Georgia Garvey / Oct 18, 2025

My two boys recently got new passports. The little books are gorgeously designed.

On thick paper, drawings are etched of wheat fields and farmers, statues and monuments. Quotes from great Americans - former Presidents George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, as well as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., -- top each page. The ...Read more

Family guide to new movie releases

Parents / Parenting News / Oct 15, 2025

'BLACK PHONE 2'

Rated R for strong violent content, gore, teen drug use, and language.

What it’s about: Siblings in 1982 Denver have to fend off the kiddie serial killer the Grabber who haunts them in their dreams.

The kid attractor factor: This is a fairly violent horror movie — not really for kids.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Families ...Read more

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The new talk -- The need to discuss AI with kids

Parents / Parenting News / Oct 15, 2025

“(I)t is a massively more powerful and scary thing than I knew about.” That’s how Adam Raine’s dad characterized ChatGPT when he reviewed his son’s conversations with the AI tool. Adam tragically died by suicide. His parents are now suing OpenAI and Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, based on allegations that the tool contributed to his ...Read more