Parenting Playbook is a monthly column from Forbes Vetted that offers strategies and tactics to help you tackle parenthood like a pro. Starting preschool is a major milestone for your kiddo and your ...

A mother daughter embrace after a tough day at school in this undated photo. On her first day of preschool, my daughter woke up ready to go! She was joining the Owl class, and so she put on an owl ...

Growing up, my mom and dad read me a picture book the night before I started each new school year. When bedtime came, I would curl up in bed next to my parents—and my dog—and listen intently as they ...

"By the second line, I couldn't say it out loud because my lip was quivering." It's a rite of passage many parents are familiar with – that emotional experience sending kids off to kindergarten for ...

How can parents really prepare their kids for kindergarten? Take advice from a teacher who says parents need to do one important thing: “Tell your kid no.” “‘No’ is not a bad word,” Emily Perkins, a ...