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Being a parent is awesome. It is the most amazing thing I have ever experienced.

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Being the parent of a 20-something means skulking around the sidelines while your child weathers enough major events for a lifetime of "Friends" episodes.

Todd Duplain is known is local real estate circles as director of development for Beavercreek-based Mills Development.

You could call it "distracted parenting," when mom and dad pay more attention to their smartphone than their kids, CBS 2's Jericka Duncan reported Monday.

Jenna Elfman, left, returns to sitcoms as a mother to Eli Baker and Ava Deluca-Verley in NBC's new comedy 'Growing Up Fisher.'

Parenting is a life-changing, meaning-infusing, deeply profound experience. It is also, day by day, a huge drag.

Melissa Harris-Perry is currently on leave from her dual posts at MSNBC and Tulane University in order to spend time with her newborn daughter and family, but she's still doing her thing as America's foremost public intellectual .

Worzalla's family told police on Feb. 4 that he hadn't been heard from for a week and asked them to conduct a welfare check.

Move over Honey Boo Boo, there's a sassy new Georgian taking reality TV by storm: Get ready to meet Todd Chrisley and his blond-haired bunch on Chrisley Knows Best on Tuesday, March 11 at 10 p.m. on USA with reruns on E! beginning Sunday, March 16 at 10:30 p.m. Todd, wife Julie , sons Chase and Grayson , and daughters Lindsie and Savannah are at ... (more)

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Here's a look at parenting headlines that caught our eye today. Kids and scoliosis: Remember the day when the school nurse would come by and ask everyone to bend over so she could check their spines for scoliosis? Georgia Najarian, a Southwest Portland girl who learned she did have an abnormal curve in her spine, has found support from the Curvy ... (more)

You've seen it before: Parents using cell phones while their children vie for their attention.

Flowers, candles and stuffed animals at a makeshift memorial in Newtown, Conn., the week after 20 children and 6 adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Mealtime is supposed to be family time, but a new study suggests that ever-present smartphones are impeding parent-child communication at the table.

IT'S SOMETHING WE'RE ALL GUILTY OF... FOCUSING ON OUR PHONE OR TABLET WHILE TUNING OUT THE WORLD.

The service which treats children and young people with mental illness in Wales is in a state of crisis, according to child health experts.

Have you been one of the parents that have read the new release Out of Control: Why Disciplining Your Child Doesn't Worka and What Will ? If not, you are missing out as the general consensus of the readers of this amazing book is "Where was this information when my kids were younger?" and "The atmosphere in our home has begun changing already!" ... (more)

The controversy over three-parent embryos could soon be old hat. Writing in one of the world's leading journals, one of Britain's best-known bioethicists has outlined a strategy for creating children with four or more genetic parents.

Back during the days when my daughter was a sweet, easy infant, I remember another mom telling me that having a child is like having your heart walking around outside of your body for the rest of your life.