A visitor looking for Eastside Baby Corner (EBC) might be excused for thinking they were searching for a modest storefront...
K.C. Compton worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for newspapers throughout the Rocky Mountain region for 20 years before moving to the Kansas City area as an editor for Mother Earth News. She has been in Seattle since 2016, enjoying life as a freelance and contract writer and editor.
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a catastrophe that helped reveal some of the deepest fissures in the isolated nuclear family,...
As kids head back to school—in person, hybrid or remote—a wistfulness for the missed opportunities of summer might be setting...
Women come of age steeped in conversations about reproduction. Different cultures interact with women’s bodily changes in various ways, but...
Getting a child outdoors to embrace literacy, art and the great outdoors is simple: All you need is a cordless...
Praise is a funny thing. Words of acknowledgment can be the water and sunshine that help children grow into sturdy,...
After babies master the basics of Mama, Dada and baba, and understand that they are able to summon Mama, Daddy...
Call it baby talk, call it parentese or call it infant-directed speech—whatever term you choose, babies love it, in any...
BOOK REVIEW: Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
An Indictment of U.S. Policy and Clarion Call to Fix It
Thanks to U.S. public policy going back decades, nearly 40 million people in this country live below the poverty line...
Crying is Easy; Laughing is Hard
The Science and Wonder Behind a Baby’s Laugh
The game of peekaboo is a universal language—and there’s way more to it than you might imagine. You know the...
This may be one of the saddest facts you read in a while: One in three moms in the U.S....
For years, adults have been encouraged to get sufficient exercise to support their brain health. As it turns out, cardiovascular...
