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By Sophia Richards

Part of our Life Skills by Age guide — this is the deep dive for the early-elementary years.

Six and seven is the age everything gets more capable — and a little more negotiable. Your kid can read a chart, tell time well e...

My middle kid found a light-up headband in the Halloween clearance bin last year — the kind with a cheap plastic gem that pulses red and blue when you press it. She wore it around the house for two days before the button on the side popped loose and I found the little silver battery sitting on the living room rug, next to a very determined one-year-old who was crawling straig...

By Sophia Richards

Part of our Life Skills by Age guide — this is the deep dive for the middle-childhood years.

Eight and nine is the age your kid quietly turns a corner. They can read a clock and feel time passing, follow a written recipe, ...

By Sophia Richards

Every October our kitchen table disappears under a pile of tulle, capes, plastic swords and one very determined child explaining why this costume and only this costume will do. I love it. I also know that the moment a costume is chosen, nobody in the house is thinking about hems or headlights — least of all the one who has just become a drag...

By Sophia Richards

The first time I really understood after school restraint collapse, I was standing in the kitchen with one shoe still on, holding a lunchbox that smelled faintly like warm cheese. My child had been “wonderful all day,” according to the teacher. Then the backpack hit the floor, the wrong cup was on the counter, and suddenly the whole afternoo...