Parenting

Want to make your kids better people? Here’s new that will be music to your ears.

When I was a kid, one of my biggest fears was getting in trouble and being punished by my parents.  Knowing that if I acted out and was in hot water enough to be punished, I'd have to face my father and his "Belt".  Growing up in the south, many parents believed then and even today in the bible's teachings of - "Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child".

Okay, new fathers, pop quiz: it’s 2 a.m. and your infant hasn’t stopped crying for an hour. What do you do? If you don’t know, maybe it’s time to enroll in baby boot camp.

Want to keep your kids from drinking and driving? A new study says not doing it yourself is a good start.

A study of 20,000 US families found kids with fathers suffering from depression are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than other children. Michael Weitzman at the New York University School of Medicine, who authored the study, said these findings are especially important at a time when unemployment is high and some military dads are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with emot

The parents of three children, who gave each of them Nazi names, including Adolf Hitler, have finally lost custody of all three kids. On Thursday, a New Jersey appeals court ruled that the children, who have been in foster care, should not be returned to the couple due to evidence of domestic violence in the home. The court has returned the case to family court for further reconsideration. Read M

Naming a child is usually the first big decision a new parent makes, and one that almost one and ten would like to do be able to do again.

In its latest guidelines for doctors, the American Academy of Pediatrics is advising against the usage of bumper pads in cribs, saying they may increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

In the first study of its kind, researchers compared the testosterone level of men when they were single and childless to their testosterone level after they had had a child. While testosterone always decreases when men age, the decline was much more pronounced among the men who had become fathers.

Citing evidence such as birthday cards that contained no money and a lack of care packages when they were away at college, Steven Miner, 23, and Kathryn Miner, 20, tried to sue the woman who brought them into the world for being “negligent” and causing them “emotional distress.”

A co-worker posted about this story on Facebook and I just knew that I had to pass it along. David Stocker and Kathy Witterick of Toronto have decided to keep the gender of their third child, named Storm, an absolute secret from not only the public at large, but from their friends and family as well.