Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Grannies for the Future, Fertility Preservation for Transgender and Non-Binary People, More Kids Want to Be YouTubers, Skate After School, 6 Life Lessons for Raising a Transgender Child, A Growing Child-Free By Choice Movement, Gov. Cuomo Signs Green New Deal, UK Activists and Lawmakers Revitalize Green New Deal.

by | Jul 30, 2019 | Uncategorized

As climate change becomes more dire with each passing year, we are forced to look at its far reaching effects beyond those that are most obvious. This week, I learned how a growing movement of people are choosing not to have children in an effort to reduce their...

Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Should Kids Get Mental Health Days? 6 Things Happy Families Have in Common, Getting Ahead of Kids’ Inattention Issues, Creative Ways to Manage Screen Time, How to Stop Emotional Eating, Malala’s Dad on Pushing Equality at Home, Will Robots One Day Replace us as Parents?

by | Jul 23, 2019 | Uncategorized

As parents, we are constantly questioning whether we are doing enough for our children to ensure their success in the future. We worry about whether we are instilling in them core values such as a strong work ethic, or empathy. And with so much information coming at...

Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: What The Future Looks Like for Special Needs Parents, Hiring Screen-Free Coaches, Science Says Parents Are Taking it Too Far, The Pros and Cons of Working From Home, Robots as Elder Carers, Automation and Its Impact on Jobs, How AI Rooted Out a Sexist Culture, and Humans Still Do Some Things Better than Robots.

by | Jul 16, 2019 | Uncategorized

The old saying “Man plans and God laughs” seems to ring eerily true these days as we — and most notably our children — face many unknowns for the future. As parents , we can’t help but imagine our children’s futures once they leave our nests.  Now, more...

Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Teens Making Big Changes, Tackling Global Sanitation Issues, The Future of Work-Life Balance, 6 New Space Jobs for the Future, Why Kids Need a Side Hustle, Getting Your Kids to Move This Summer, Avoiding the “Summer Slide,” and How Cow Farts Are Contributing to Climate Change.

by | Jul 8, 2019 | Inspiration, Picks of the Week, Uncategorized

We are inundated daily by news of crises the world over — the perils of climate change, war and genocide, political corruption — just to name a few. For this reason, it’s not unusual to be anxious about the world our children stand to inherit, and what we...

Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Mom’s Post on Parenting Son with Autism Hailed for Honesty, Celebrating the good and bad this July 4, Kids and Self-worth, The dangers of “Helicopter Parenting,” Motivating Your Kids, Parenting in Poverty, What to do When Kids Say the Darndest Things, and the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week.

by | Jul 2, 2019 | Inspiration, Picks of the Week, Uncategorized

As parents, we are charged with navigating our children through this tricky world, responsible for helping them develop the resilience to rise to life’s many challenges, and also to provide a safe harbor for them so they know we always have their backs. This is the...