Every evening as the sun sets, Robb Wolf begins his nightly ritual: While his two daughters play, he slowly dims the lights, just a few lumens every 20 to 30 minutes, until the house, in Reno, Nevada, is dark. The family is asleep before 8 p.m. and awake before dawn, as Wolf imagines our ancestors were millennia ago, before artificial light interrupted our “normal circadian rhythms.”

Kids are anything but indecisive.

“It’s irrational, this isn’t his fault, but I can see him (if he doesn’t die soon) at 30 or 35, telling people about his ‘best friend Paul’ and about how he tried to save you but couldn’t, and I can hear him tell it with earnestness and persuasion and even see the girl who will be with him, rub his back, and cry one single tear and think to herself, ‘What an amazing man to have come through all this.’ And Ryan—yes, by then, he’ll use his real name—will never mention his...” By Barry Friedman.

The drive to perfection has made children risk averse for fear of failure. Parents and teachers can work together to give kids more autonomy and opportunities for agency.

AS A single man, babies didn’t really come into my thought process. Then, about 18 months ago, I was watching my father, brother and nephew play together and I just thought, “This is what the good men in my family do – they have a family.”

In Calgary, between the soccer practices and the hours at her accounting job and the potlucks with the neighbors, Christianne Boudreau spent every spare minute watching Islamic State videos, her nose pressed up against the computer screen. She sat in the basement of her middle-class home in her middle-class suburb, a bare room that once belonged to her eldest son, Damian, and watched men posturing with big guns like teenagers. She watched firefights. She watched executions.

Sexual education is extremely important and yet a lack of regulations means that children attending different schools all over the country will receive completely different information on the topic, some of which is false and a lot of which includes shaming kids (mainly girls) who have had or want to have sex. - 2015/08/10

“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that ‘words failed.’ But words were not failing Teri and me at all.” A child’s isolating illness. By Aleksander Hemon. (June 13, 2011)

Nicola Smith, who has multiple sclerosis, tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme she is worried that her condition will lead her son to miss out.

A 91-year-old woman who believed she had a large tumour growing inside her, has learnt it was actually a foetus.

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has decided to terminate all state funding to Planned Parenthood, according to his office.

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Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports. By Lori Gottlieb.

The new policy is consistent with Netflix’s larger mandate that employees should be free to figure out their own work-life balance. The video streaming giant announced a new policy today that offers unlimited maternity and paternity leave to employees for the first year after a child’s birth or adoption.

"What kind of person forgets a baby? The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate." Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

If you're a parent who's posted a picture of your child online, the role-playing game #BabyRP may make you double check your privacy settings. Players take photos of children harvested from other people's accounts. They then post the stolen pictures to their own Instagram account with a new name and an imaginary storyline, inviting others to role-play being daddy, mummy or child.

A mother’s difficult quest to discover what her children's playthings are made of—and whether they are safe and environmentally friendly. By Jamie Passaro.

Owen barely communicated with my wife and me. But he opened up to the parrot from “Aladdin.” By Ron Suskind. (March 2014)

Technologies that predict the possibility of a neurological disorder have the weight of affecting conceptions of not just “what” these children have but “who” these children will become.

She didn’t want to give up her career. But the pace was killing her. How one woman left behind the jet-set life, found success and returned to her family.