Being a parent is complicated. Most of parents walk through life following a script handed to them by others – their parents, religion, culture – with little thought about what is actually necessary for raising kids these days. In this modern age of increasing diversity and calls for inclusion and justice, integration of current empirical research is animated by real life stories in this blog. Raising Kids These Days aims to clarify and empower parents to see themselves in the science on parenting in a new way and chart their own way forward.