Parenting News

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

Leaving the television on can be detrimental to children's learning and development, according to a new study.

This week, a group of Sailor Moon fans recreated an entire episode of the anime classic, shot for shot.

"Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love" .

Is it child abuse if someone leaves a toddler in a car to run into a store? That's a question the New Jersey Supreme Court is going to take on.

Human parents aren't enough...now we need robots to raise our kids. When public outrage drives the legal community there are dangers to be found.

It's no secret that parenting is difficult. As a combat veteran, I've even sometimes wondered which is harder; war or raising children? So is managing a team just as hard? Granted, children need more attention and supervision than adults , but the similarities between managing and parenting are interesting.

After my other-half Rob read last week's blog he told me that any expectant mother reading it would probably be petrified and that it all sounded a bit negative.

Jimmy Kimmel became a dad again earlier in July, and this time, he decided to skip the baby books and go to a more obvious source for parenting advice: A fellow child.

On Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night television after a two-week hiatus surrounding the birth of his daughter Jane.

It feels like the Parent Police were working overtime June 30 when single mom Debra Harrell was arrested in North Augusta, S.C., and charged with child neglect while her daughter was taken t0 the Department of Social Services.

A successful voluntary group has been praised by the Deputy Prime Minister for its work in supporting young Sheffield families.

Does seeing the wreckage of downed airliners, missiles flying and gunfire in the streets affect them? What do we tell them? It is unlikely children are actually going to be touched by war or terrorist attacks in New Zealand but our children could become frightened and upset.

A disgusting, terrible story, just got disgusting-er and terribler: McDonald's has fired Debra Harrell, the woman who was arrested for letting her nine-year-old daughter play alone at the park while she was at work.

Here's how this crazy experiment came about: I was watching TV with my wife and suddenly found myself in a big fat puddle of embarrassing ugly cry, thanks to an Extra Gum commercial about birds and college and heartbreak - something like that.

It's hard to believe it, but Lady Antebellum 's Hillary Scott celebrates her baby Eisele 's first birthday Tuesday.

Q: Using your advice, I successfully toilet-trained my daughter by age 16 months.

Little Katy Grace Leeson may have been accidentally suffocated before she was found lifeless by her father in the early hours of March 14. But a Doncaster coroner recorded an open conclusion because no cause of death could be determined by a Home Office pathologist.

Prince George turns 1 on Tuesday. While he may be too young to appreciate it, the milestone is causing a nationwide frenzy.

After three teens were arrested and charged for murdering two homeless men while they slept, many people have asked "where was the parenting" as the teens roamed the streets in the middle of the night terrorizing the homeless.