Parenting News

Police say 2-year-old Destinee Massey died after her mother held her face down on a bed until the child stopped crying.

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A CHARITY which helps parents learn the skills needed to bring up their children has won national praise for its work.

Darren Spedale is anything but lazy. He's been an investment banker, lawyer, and small business owner.

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In today's society, the makeup of families is not quite as traditional or cookie cutter as in the past.

It's likely you've seen a child that's too young to speak in complete sentences operating his mom's iPhone better than, well, his mom.

Repeated Showings of Frosty the Snowman , A Christmas Story, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas are inescapable during peak holiday season.

Q: My 5-year-old son is an only child whom I homeschool. He talks back, argues and generally wears me down.

A commonly shared keen observation or even a funny "urban legend" of sorts is how a first child in a family is cared for completely differently from how the following children are raised.

In fact, for the past two decades, her home has been a lively epicenter for foster children, and, now, her adopted children.

The law governing out-of-state relocation of children changed dramatically in 2006 with the adoption of Minnesota's removal statute, Minn.

The holiday season is here and for most of us that means Holiday dinners, parties, New Year's celebrations.

Police said parents with difficult, defiant, or problematic children are encouraged to attend the Parent Project classes.

It's still a little hard for us to imagine her as anything other than Cher from Clueless , but could Alicia Silverstone be on her way to mama mogulhood ? We're intrigued by the actress and author's new trailer for her forthcoming book, The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, ... (more)

Dr. Ken Adams does not let parenting get in the way of his exercise. In fact, he says his three girls, who are 10, 7 and 3, make it easier than ever for him to exercise because it's part of their playtime together.

The right wing talk show host, who loves traditional marriage so much that he has done it four times , bashed the growing trend of coparenting, in which two people who want to be parents come together to create a child without marriage or romance as part of the equation.

The House and Senate farm bills would repeal the costly and indefensible direct payment program, which sends taxpayer dollars to people who don't even plant a seed.

A woman who so severely neglected and starved her grandson that he wasted away and died portrayed herself in testimony Wednesday at a coroner's inquest as the boy's only hope, lest he be shipped off to foster care.

Fast & Furious star Paul Walker was killed in a fiery car crash over the weekend.