Topic: Parenting
Joel Austin, Dean of Daddy University
Twenty-two years ago, a veteran from West Philly felt left out of the parenting equation. Today, he’s turned thousands of local dads into successful child-rearers
By Ashleigh N. DeLuca
You Get a Car Seat! And You Get a Car Seat!
A group of PA Masons, our Citizens of the Week, have come up with an ingenious way to surprise, delight and assist growing military families: mass baby showers
By Natalie Pompilio
New Mom School
A Graduate Hospital mom opens PA's first postpartum education center, serving moms after baby arrives and baby showers are a distant memory
By Laura Brzyski
Sara Novic’s Mother Tongue
The Philadelphia writer on her new memoir on becoming deaf, parenting a deaf child, and the history of deaf culture in the United States
By Courtney DuChene
Mt. Airy Family Commons Founders
Parenting infants and little children can be incredibly lonely. Hannah Fenlon, Linda Joy and Hannah Newman have a solution in a co-op that already includes 80 families
By Courtney DuChene
The Reiner Family is Our Family
In light of a recent Hollywood tragedy, a Main Line recovery specialist says people who love people with mental health disorders are quietly asking: Could this happen to us?
By Kim Ferris Porter
The Baby Gear Revolution Launched in Philly
Baby Gear Group, now a B Corp, was named a Time magazine invention of the year by letting families rent strollers and other childcare essentials for a fraction of the cost and environmental impact. It’s now expanded across the region and country
By Courtney DuChene
Quit Whining about Travel Sports
Intense youth sports are a rational response to the hyper-competitive world we live in.
By Diana Lind
All Politics is Personal
Seven years ago, Committee of Seventy’s CEO set out to adopt a little girl from foster care. Here’s what it taught her about democracy
By Lauren Cristella
What’s a Dadcathlon?
Joseph Gidjunis and Joshua Kagi, creators of the new show Grown Up Dad, want to build a nationwide community of dads. On Father’s Day eve, they start by asking dads to … step on LEGOs?
By Charissa Howard