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What has more letters than the alphabet? That’s easy: The post office. That joke sponsored by the letter A is a highlight of the first original podcast from “Sesame Street,” featuring music, interactive games and Muppets galore.

Emmy Award-winning actress Sarah Michelle Gellar says she’s “trying to take the good with the bad” during the pandemic. That includes coping with the ups and downs of helping her kids learn from home as well as finding the best solution for her son’s diagnosis with myopia, or nearsightedness.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have shared with the world that they lost their baby following pregnancy complications. We welcomed Stacey Stewart, the CEO of March of Dimes, a nonprofit that works to improve the health of mothers and babies, to discuss how the couple’s openness about their loss is helping to break the culture of silence around miscarriages and...

Children who had preschool cut short in the spring are now being held out of kindergarten at higher than normal rates as many school districts begin the year online.

Cincinnati father Andrew Beattie couldn’t bear to miss out on Halloween this year, so he created a “candy chute” for safe trick-or-treating during the pandemic, using a 6-foot-long chute made from household materials.

Daddy-daughter haircuts? Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are proving once again that they’re the fun parents. On Sept. 17, Shepard took to Instagram to share a video of himself shaving one side of his head to match with his daughter. The two-minute video shows him using an electric razor to buzz half his head, leaving his dark blonde hair swooped to the other side, all...

Tiffiny Dixon looks at her 4-year-old son and knows that someday he will “stop being cute” and start being stereotyped as a threat. That’s why she takes him to Black Lives Matter protests – to teach him how to fight back by using his constitutional rights of assembly and free speech.

If your car seat is about to expire, or it’s just covered in applesauce stains and Goldfish crumbs, Target has you covered with their 2020 car seat trade-in event.

Georgia mom Jana Coombs tapped into the feelings of many parents on social media when she shared a heartbreaking image of her son in tears on his first day of online kindergarten. She joined LX News to discuss her own family’s struggle with online education and the way she has banded together with some other parents to make it better...

If the thought of homeschooling your children leaves you feeling overwhelmed, read our guide for product suggestions to help you get set up and dozens of educational resources to get you going.

Our son Henry is not doing very well with the COVID lockdown. I won’t bother with the perfunctory caveats about all children suffering without school, and all families struggling in this climate of fear and isolation, because it’s only partially true. I think we all know by now that this has not been a collective experience and that families with...

Keeping kids entertained while cooped up inside for days is no easy feat. This list of resources will hopefully provide hours of fun for your children of all ages.

After coronavirus cases first exploded in the U.S. in March, fertility treatments ground to a halt. Some women were forced to stop treatments mid-cycle, while others had embryo transfers delayed. NBCLX spoke about this painful process with four couples, as well as with Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a fertility specialist who goes by “The Egg Whisperer.”

Alysia Montano, an Olympic runner and mother of two, talked to The New York Times about her struggle to maintain her career and her sponsorship with Nike during her pregnancy. The system should stop treating pregnancy like an injury, she says.

As the schooling dilemma continues to daunt millions of parents, some with the means to front the steep costs are hiring private educators and tutors.

Studies estimate that 90 percent of American children have a social media presence by age 2. The New York Times captured a few families’ conversations about parenting and “sharenting,” or the overuse of social media by parents, which can lead to identity theft and online fraud.

Across the country, parents are having difficult conversations with their children about race and racism. A new mother tells The New York Times her hopes and fears about raising a Black son in America.

School districts across America must make wrenching decisions over how to resume classes in settings radically altered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Working from home presents its own set of unique challenges, but one health expert found that out on live television as her young daughter sought a place to showcase her unicorn picture.

So how does one juggle a Zoom conference call while checking homework from their 5th grader? These parents share with The New York Times the secrets they learned on the fly of parenting through a pandemic.