In a desperate parenting moment after dinner, I told my six-year-old, who was mid-meltdown, to “use your words!” He had just started yelling and hitting his eight-year-old sister because she wasn’t ...

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Using safe words in the sack is a way many couples stay on the same page between the sheets. But for Locke and Ashley Haman, their safe word, “sassafras,” has less to do with hot and heavy petting and ...

When it comes to settling down young children, parenting advice focuses mostly on one tool: What to say. If the toddler starts to have a tantrum, say this. If a child can't go to sleep, say that. And ...

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A boy unearths a treasure trove of adjectives, and a strange word discovered by a scholar becomes an overnight sensation. From “A Chest Full of Words.”Credit...Rebecca Gugger and Simon Röthlisberger ...