Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Latchkey kids had a lot of time to themselves to do whatever they could come up with to pass the time. In a world before screen ...

One thing Gen X and elder millennial kids had during our childhoods was autonomy — and often too much of it. All those online jokes about running "feral" as kids with no supervision are not really ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I don’t know why it happened, but it seems like the legacy of “latchkey ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As an early GenXer, I was among the leading wave of kids whose parents both worked, so I went home to an empty house every day.

If you want to understand why I have approximately seventeen work-from-home jobs and zero desire to sit in a beige cubicle ever again, you have to understand one thing first: I’m Gen X. Which means I ...

On a recent out-of-state college visit, my youngest daughter and I experienced a scene that is best described as the Brigade of the Packages. Several delivery people entered the dorm we were touring, ...

As summer transitions into the return to the classroom, divorced or non-married parents should look ahead and revisit parenting plans and time-sharing schedules. What lies ahead during the new school ...

Picture this: You’ve childproofed every cabinet, installed safety gates at the staircase, and triple-checked the car seat installation—yet you didn’t put a ...

Latchkey kids had a lot of time to themselves to do whatever they could come up with to pass the time. In a world before screen time and doom scrolling, you could do a lot (of damage) with a few free ...