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Love Artificially A human and an AI boyfriend embrace. The AI boyfriend if made up of text bubbles with empty space between them. The text reads, "Love Artificially."

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Love Artificially

Falling for fake, people are increasingly turning from real relationships to digital companions.

Illustration of two adults and a child playing Twister on a colorful calculator mat against a bright yellow background, with limbs stretched across red, blue, green, and yellow circles and scattered papers around them. The screen shows $250. The illustration represents the struggle of affording a family.

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Affording a Family

Rising costs strain young families, but smart choices, communication, and realistic expectations can build stability.

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Relatable Reading

The power of children's books to impact lives comes through the power of agency, good character traits, and more.

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Raising Happy Athletes

Four tips to lower burnout, injuries, and dropout rates in youth sports.

Growing Up with AI
Fall 2025
Four ways to help kids use artificial intelligence and maintain authentic connections.
Giving It All Away
Fall 2025
What one family learned as they overspent on gifts—for others in need.
Raising Resilience
Fall 2025
BYU experts weigh in on how to help youth build grit, fortitude, and confidence.
Embracing the Whirlwind
Spring 2025
One mother discusses managing meltdowns and finding unexpected gifts in the chaos of parenting neurodiverse children.
Playing Favorites
Spring 2025
How birth order, personality, and gender affect relationships. And what parents can do to foster strong family bonds.
The Perfect Problem
Spring 2025
How growth, grace, and learning can replace toxic perfectionism.
Raising Readers
Winter 2025
Tips to encourage kids to turn off the TV, put down the phone, and read a book.
Raising Resilient Kids
Summer 2024
Four parenting practices can build emotional strength and self-confidence in children.
Parenting with Peace
Spring 2024
Learn four ways that parents can strengthen their marital relationships and experience increased peace.
The Sleep-Stress Cycle
Summer 2023
Child sleep disorders are impacting parental health.
Toddlers, Tantrums, and Tech
Fall 2021
Helping kids manage their emotions well means media shouldn’t be the go-to pacifier.
Maximizing the Mashup
Fall 2020
When earning and learning and living all happen in the same space, boundaries can blur. Here’s what to do about it.
Claiming Confidence
Summer 2019
Seven pregnant dancers at BYU joined together in dance, claiming their identities as both dancers and mothers.
Summer Fun for Stronger Families
Spring 2019
How to design quality, values-added summer activities with your family.
Up Your Parenting
Fall 2018
The latest BYU research reveals two ways moms and dads can up their emotional skills.
5 Skills to Teach Budding Chefs
Summer 2018
BYU caterer shares kitchen tips to teach your kids to help them learn their way around the kitchen.
A Mediator Mom
Winter 2018
This alumna, mom, and mediation expert says the same skills apply to toddlers and CEOs.
Building the Teenage Self
Fall 2016
How do teens build self-control? First, they have to grapple with adversity, says BYU research.
Last Lectures: Parents to Their Freshmen
Summer 2016
Change your sheets, live up to your name. See the parting advice parents gave dropping off the freshmen of 2016.
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Fall 2015
Bilingual parenting is easier than you would expect.