An Open Letter to My Teenage Sons
I have high expectations of you. I have no doubt that you will live up to them all, but in the wake of recent news events I feel like I have to verbalize them.
I have high expectations of you. I have no doubt that you will live up to them all, but in the wake of recent news events I feel like I have to verbalize them.
A new mom is convinced her 5 month old baby has autism. But the only red flags we are seeing relate to the mom’s anxiety right now.
in 2013, there were 113 children’s products recalled. Whoa. I couldn’t name one of them. However, Empowered SAFETY does all the legwork for you.
Out of nowhere my recently potty-trained toddler has started peeing indiscriminately. Is this a behavioral regression or is there something more I should be concerned about?
We’ve been talking a lot about teaching your teen to drive ’round here, lately, and so we thought it might be a useful thing to come up with a sample template of parent-teen driving agreement.
Last month I wrote about Kellogg’s limiting its advertising to kids under 12 to only foods that meet a new nutritional criteria. Well, more than a bunch of new companies have joined them: McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Mars, Hershey Foods, Unilever, Campbell, General Mills, Hershey, Kraft, and…
What are the best ways to help a friend with a special needs child? Author and mom Jennifer Graf Groneberg shares her tips on what to say and do.
It greatly saddens me that it was just four months ago that I wrote Thinking of Newtown. Here we are again mourning as a nation. Thinking about how to explain and talk about this tragedy with our children.
When should you expect progress? When should you demand a change?
Guest contributor, Laura Bennett has come to realize she is facing male puberty at home. And in her case, she’ll have to deal with it for the next DECADE.
LICE, is a four-letter word for a reason. We wade through all the myths surrounding lice leaving you with the truth and how to get rid of the buggers.
Once you accept that your kids will be monitored around school by a tracking device, what’s next? Should we have a problem with schools tracking our children with chips embedded in their school ids?
The real questions you need to ask when interviewing teenaged babysitting prospects.
You’re a new mom and probably still in mother shock. Though you will learn the ins and outs of navigating your new best friend’s (aka pediatrician) office, here’s what I have learned.
In between competitions I’ve been able to spend time with Olympic moms as they’ve dined or just hung out watching Team USA compete. They have some great advice to share with the parents of aspiring Olympic athletes and just any competitive sports kids.
By now you have heard about the FDA panel’s review of cold medication for children. Probably, right unless you’ve been under a rock. But I don’t want to rule that out a possibility. If not, here’s the PSA. At the end of last week, an…
Watch me turn “dirty water” into clean drinkable water– in minutes– using P&G’s purified water technology.
Our human mosquito magnet tested out several different bug repellents, from skin protectants (DEET and DEET-free options), to wristbands and insect traps. And we share our favorites repellents.
How do you put together a first aid kit for your college kid? With a little time and thought, and they’ll thank you later.
My teen son and I concluded our Invisalign® treatment. Here are our final thoughts looking back on treatment. Pictures included!