Parenting News

Earlier this month, TLC brought back "Sister Wives," a reality show featuring the Utah-based polygamist Brown family of four wives and 17 children, for another season.

I've mentioned this before I'm sure - but I'm a total convert to the Kindle way of life; the Kindle way of reading.

TACKLING THE BIG ISSUES: Nigel Latta about the way things are in New Zealand and why we could all do better.

Dr. Frank Stass, the Clinical Director at Heritage Oaks Hospital who specializes in addiction medicine, in his new book, Why Smart People to Stupid Things", offers insights for parenting cyber-powered kids.

Children who have been abused or neglected early in life are at risk for developing both emotional and physical health problems.

I guess pretty soon we'll be able to add Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi to the list of couples who have desperately had a baby with the hopes of it salvaging an already failing relationship heading towards divorce.

Having raised their own children, the Lebanon, N.J., couple, who declined to give their last name, planned to retire to Florida.

Jade took on the role of surrogate mother to the baby bird when, unfortunately, the breeding adults didn't prove to be the most capable of parents.

Parents are always told no tv, no computers, on electronics, etc. However, a lot of very good information is out in forms of electronics.

And I didn't want another puppy. The first one died, horribly, in a mess of blood and vomit, the victim of parvovirus, a harsh environment with virtually no veterinary care, and my ignorance.

Union J singer J.J. Hamblett's bandmates say he uses parenthood to get out of things he doesn't want to do.

The writer John Shea tells the story of Margaret, who found a bag of pot shoved in the back of her 14-year-old son’s sock drawer.

Debra Harrell was arrested recently after the McDonald's employee let her daughter spend the day playing in a nearby park while she worked her shift.

Daisy Wyatt oversees Arts + Entertainment for The Independent website. She describes herself as somewhere between The Hits and Radio 4. Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature.

The Arizona mom arrested after leaving her kids in a hot car while she went on a job interview said she's "extremely grateful" for a second chance, a week after reaching a deal with prosecutors that would drop criminal charges against her.

Words have the power to wound or lift our hearts. This isn't new news. Of course, the challenge is when you are small and new to the world - the words you hear help shape your self-esteem and ultimately, worldview.

Sarah McLachlan, the Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter whose ballads helped so many of us through heartache, breakups and loss, was barely out of her teenage years when her first album was released back in 1988.

Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced Thursday that the feature "Captain Fantastic" will begin principal photography in Albuquerque, Las Cruces and Mesilla next month.

Among those peeves listed in this modern day Necronomicon ? Gravity, sound, the existence of shoes and the proliferation of dust-in the cultural imagination once mostly composed of human skin, much like the pages of this so-called "manual"-in the home.

DEAR ABBY: When my friend "Fran" and I get together with our kids, they often play games on her cellphone until the battery dies.