As another American election appears on the horizon, it’s difficult to see where we are heading. The country has never been more divided. We have a pandemic eating away different states at an alarming rate. Racial unrest is bubbling up after months of being...
I am an American author and parenting expert currently living in Rome. I recently spoke to BBC World News about how it felt to be here. As many know, Italy was one of the first countries in the western world to go on lockdown....
We were on holiday recently and I witnessed a fairly familiar scene. I don’t need to talk about where we were. It could have been Anywhere, USA or Wherever, Europe. It could have been on a beach, in the snow, in a restaurant...
I recently contributed to the LEGO Play Well Report, a study of 13,000 people in nine countries, which found that families who play for five or more hours together a week were happier than those who played for less. I concur that Denmark’s belief...
We’ve said it once and we’ve said it a gazillion times—play is vitally important. Both for your kids and for yourself. Which is a finding echoed in the latest LEGO Play Well Report, a just-released study which looks at the habits and attitudes around...
We have all thought about what it means to be a parent from time to time, but have you ever wondered how our culture affects the way we view what we think is the right way to parent? In Norway, parents regularly leave children...
Danish men believe in breastfeeding so much that it becomes a team effort rather than just a woman’s experience. Breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world, people say. From my experience, this is like saying that twisting yourself into a pretzel while...
I finally did it: I told my daughter she had a vagina. She was fiveat the time and it was a big moment for me as a parent. Truth be told, I had already been telling her she had a vagina since she was...
We all want our kids to be happy. And happiness is something the Danes have supposedly figured out, with research consistently showing that residents of Denmark are among the happiest in the world. So, it’s not a huge surprise that an article we published...
Parenting expert Jessica Alexander worries that even in Denmark, where play is seen as a necessary part of a child’s life, free play could be pushed out by a focus on competitiveness. I recently took a tour around the International School of Billund, Denmark...
