Mei Lin Foster, Books & Guides Editor at Decoded Kids
Books & Guides Editor

Mei Lin Foster

Mei Lin reads every parenting book so she can tell you which ones are worth your time. Mom of three, professionally tired, still curious.

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7 minHe Picked the Eyes, You Held the KnifeParenting Tips+9 minFive Forty in the Morning and She Is Standing Next to Your BedTools & Apps+9 min9 Baby Shower Gifts That Are Still in Use in Month ThreeParenting Tips+8 minShe Chose the Tree With the Hole in ItParenting Tips+8 minHe Wanted the Wagon, Not the PumpkinParenting Tips+8 minThe Magic Was Never the Big ThingParenting Tips+7 minNobody Remembers the Cocoa. They Remember Choosing.Parenting Tips+7 minYou Made a Very Nice Hedgehog and She Watched You Do ItParenting Tips+8 minShe Wants the Matching Set and He Has Decided He Is a Traffic ConeParenting Tips+6 minEight Nights, and Only Two of Them Are BigParenting Tips+6 minThe Handwriting Is the Gift. The Rest Is Packaging.Parenting Tips+8 minThe Craft That Survives the Day Has a JobParenting Tips+7 minForty Minutes in the Queue and He Will Not Look at the ManParenting Tips+7 minThe Traditions Cost Nothing and Those Are the Ones They RememberParenting Tips+9 min12 Advent Calendar Fillers That Are Not ChocolateParenting Tips+7 minYour Child Can Read the Words. That Is Not the Same as Reading.Books & Guides+9 minThe Baby Sleep Books, Sorted by What They Ask You to DoBooks & Guides+7 min10 Gifts for 11 to 13 Year Olds Who Are Too Old for ToysTools & Apps+7 min9 Gifts for 2 to 4 Year Olds That Aren’t More PlasticParenting Tips+6 min10 Old-Fashioned Toys Kids Still Pick Over the Loud OnesTools & Apps+7 min12 Christmas Gifts for Kids That Are Still in Use by MarchTools & Apps+10 minChild Decoded, Reviewed: The Book for When No Single Diagnosis Explains Your KidBooks & Guides+8 minBest Volume-Limited Bluetooth Headphones for Kids (Where the Cap Holds)Tools & Apps+6 minAlpine Muffy Ear Defenders Review: Worth It for a Sensitive Baby or Toddler?Tools & Apps+7 minBooks for When the Big Feelings Are Bigger Than Both of YouBooks & Guides+7 minBooks for the Kid Everyone Calls Too MuchBooks & Guides+7 minIn My Heart, Reviewed: The Big-Feelings Book That Gives Kids the WordsBooks & Guides+9 minThe Best Ear Defenders and Headphones for an Overwhelmed KidTools & Apps+10 minBest Visual Timers for Kids: The Ones We’d BuyTools & Apps+6 minHey Warrior, Reviewed: The Book That Finally Explains Anxiety to a Worried KidBooks & Guides+6 minNo-Drama Discipline: How to Hold the Limit Without the Shouting MatchBooks & Guides+6 minThe Whole-Brain Child: The Meltdown Strategies That StickBooks & Guides+11 minThe Kids’ Sleep Tools That Earn Their Spot on the NightstandTools & Apps+8 minThe ADHD Parenting Books Worth BuyingADHD & Focus+5 minThe Books That Got Me Through Co-ParentingBooks & Guides+
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