Habits For Humanity: Books to Nourish Gratitude in Children
Get kids into the habit of reading with these great recommendations.
Browsing: Family
Family Favorites! Meet the Fabrio Family
Meet the Fabrio family from Croatia and find out what their favorite places in Beijing are.
Coping with Holiday-Related Anxiety
The holiday season is especially difficult for some. Don’t go through it alone.
Strict Holiday Traditions Are Overrated: Adapting Western Holidays to Fit Our Beijing Lifestyle
We drank the holiday drink with the unappealing name that turned out to be delicious — eggnog, who would have thought drinking raw eggs would be good? And we ate something delightful called stuffing that turned out to be bread that was cooked inside a turkey’s rear end.
The Teen Christmas Shopping Tips
It’s not about how much money you spend, it’s about spending it on the right things.
Would You Track Your Kids on an App?
News of Zenly, an app that only works when you allow it to track you all the time, brings up some uncomfortable parental conversations.
Can COVID-19 Stop the Christmas Magic?
It’s going to be a bit hard to explain Santa to the kids amidst COVID-19, but we’ve got some suggestions.
Live Streaming School Shows: A New Kind of Parent Participation
We’d spent a good bit of time explaining to our kids, especially our youngest, why we couldn’t be there. Our 4-year-old didn’t quite understand what a live stream is, so we told them it’s like we have a private YouTube channel that’s just for the parents of their classmates.
Gratitude Journal 2020: “It Wasn’t the Pregnancy I’d Imagined”
Honestly, at first, I didn’t think it would become a global pandemic. I thought it would be something that was contained in Wuhan and disappear a few weeks later. When it became clear COVID-19 was much, much more serious, I pretty much didn’t go outside anymore. I didn’t really know how to react because you don’t know who has it or how it was even spread back then.
The Reality of Postpartum With a Yuesao
We’ve heard about those weird customs. Now it’s time for the reality of postpartum with a yuesao.