News and Features Related to Health & Parenting

1. New Baby Leaves Many Parents Clueless
   

   May 5, 2008 -- If little babies could talk, their first words might not be terms of endearment, but rather something more like "Mommy, get a clue!" Couples are bombarded with information about what to expect when expecting, but new research presented Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies meetin

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2. Kelly Ripa’s Mom Survival Strategies
   

   For the woman who once famously said, “I think children are like pancakes: You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around,” Kelly Ripa’s kid-smarts come through first-hand experience, now that her third child, Joaquin, is 4. (Michael is 10 and Lola is 7.) That’s a wh

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3. 10 Secrets of Great Moms
   

   By Lindsey Palmer REDBOOK knows that moms know. So the life-tested parenting advice here comes straight from the mouths of the experts — you!     “Enlist everyone you can to help you. Just because you’re a mother, that doesn’t mean you have to be Wonder Woman. When my daughter was born, I called my

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4. Parents May Make Child Sleep Woes Worse
   

   April 7, 2008 -- Parents will often try anything when their young children have sleep problems, but some responses could lead to more sleep issues later on, new research suggests. Early sleep problems were highly predictive of future sleep problems in the newly published study. They were more predic

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5. TV in Teens' Bedrooms May Spell Trouble
   

   April 7, 2008 -- Having a TV in the bedroom may go hand-in-hand with some risky traits for teens. That's according to a new study of 781 adolescents in 31 Minnesota junior and senior high schools. Nearly two-thirds of the students -- 62% -- had a TV in their bedroom, according to surveys the student

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6. Why Kids Whine and How To Stop Them
   

   San Francisco mom Anne Crawford has three children, aged 8 through 13, so she has heard her share of whining over the years. “My kids whine about doing the chores, or about how unfair it is that one got something and the other didn’t,” says Crawford, 42, a freelance researcher. “I’d say whining pret

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7. Kelly Ripa's Take on Mothering
   

   Every day is Mother's Day for fans of Live With Regis and Kelly. That's because Kelly Ripa -- the prettier and perkier half of the popular morning talk show -- regularly amuses her audience with hilarious tales of pregnancy, parenthood, and, yes, the occasional poop story. This is a woman who once f

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8. Talking to Teen Girls About Sex
   

   My mom called me into her room for “the talk” when I was 12 or 13. As I recall it now, 25 years later, the conversation seemed more focused on fallopian tubes, ovaries, and the mechanics of reproduction (which I already knew about) than on the real issues in my head: cute boys, love, feeling good. M

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9. Tweens Favor Inhalants to Get High
   

   March 13, 2008 -- A newly released federal government report points to an alarming trend -- that preteens and young teens who use drugs chose inhalants as a "gateway" drug to other illicit drugs. The findings released at the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition's latest news conference reveal that

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10. Watching TV a Kid Gig?
    

    March 12, 2008 -- Some teens spend as much time using a computer or watching TV and videos as it takes to work a full-time job. That news comes from a Canadian study of nearly 1,300 teens in Montreal. The teens completed four surveys a year for five years, starting in 1999, when they were in seventh

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