Health & Parenting Features
- Growing Pains: When Should Parents Worry?
Morning pain may mean something more serious is wrong with your child.
- Quality vs. Quantity: TV Guidelines for Kids
How does the amount and quality of TV-watching affect your child's development?
- Talk About Tsunami With Your Children
Few children have been spared from the graphic and disturbing images that every hour stream across the airwaves. And those images do affect them, experts say.
- Going to College: How to Prepare
Here are some important tips to make the transition to college a little easier.
- Back-to-School Health Checklist
Experts say how to keep your child on the right track to health this school year.
- Amusement Park Survival Guide
How to have amusement park fun and avoid injury.
- Germs Are Everywhere -- Really
As you hit the road for summer travel, get in touch with those unsuspected surfaces that are breeding grounds for illness.
- Summer Fun for Kids
Ways to keep kids happy and busy until school starts again.
- The Mother-Daughter Weight Connection
Tips for parents to help their children have a healthy attitute about weight.
- Light Up July 4th -- Safely
This year, before you light up that sparkler and start practicing amateur pyrotechnics, learn some safety tips from experts who can help you bring in the Fourth with a bang, and without injury.<BR>
- 10 Commandments of Good Parenting
Does your child have behavior problems? Your relationship with your child likely needs some attention.
- Bed-Wetting Myths Debunked
Bed-wetting is a normal part of growing up. Experts give parents advice on how to handle it.
- Overscheduled Child May Lead to a Bored Teen
Scheduling too many activities for your child may do more harm than good in the long run.
- The Stress of Youth Sports
Why three out of four kids hate sports by age 13.
- Parenting Tips for the Holidays
Get parenting tips to help ease holiday stress with your children.
- Is Your Child Spoiled Rotten?
Some experts say that about 5% of kids are spoiled in that they lack discipline, are manipulative, and are generally bothersome, but there's hope for the parents of spoiled kids.
- Home Remedies for Kids' Winter Ills
Antibiotics don't work on colds and the flu, and many doctors have stopped prescribing them if your child has the sniffles. Try these doctor-recommended home remedies instead.
- Halloween Safety Tips
Follow these Halloween safety tips for youngsters.
- 10 Parenting Tips for Raising Teenagers
The teen years bring plenty of parenting challenges.
- 6 Ways to BACK OFF and Encourage Your Child
Pushing teenagers too hard can lead to stress and anxiety.
- Dial a Coach for Parenting Advice
Having trouble honing your parenting skills? Some parents in the same boat consult a parenting coach.
- Less Stress for Healthier Mom, Baby
Pregnancy itself can be stressful. And combined with other influences, stress during pregnancy can be compounded. But stress relief might be easier than you think.
- Getting Started With Adoption
Starting a family by adopting may be a second choice, but advocates say it isn't a second-best choice. Still, there is a lot to consider after you've made the decision to adopt a child.
- Traveling With Kids: A Survival Guide
Planning keeps kids calm and comfortable -- and preserves parents' sanity.
- Is TV Really So Bad for Kids?
Is TV Really So Bad for Kids? Experts say it depends on what they're watching, and how much. And the key to keeping them safe and sound is monitoring their viewing, as well as your own.
- American Kids After 9/11
American Kids After 9/11
- School Lunches Get a Garnish.
Today's school cafeterias are offering leaner meals, with less salt and cholesterol and more fruits and vegetables. But given a choice, will your picky eater pick healthier foods?
- All in the Family
Reaserch shows that the family that eats together, stays healthy together.
- Making Sure Kids Get the Message
A one-time lecture on drugs won't do the trick, research suggests. Parents should talk with -- not at -- their children.
- School Violence: Expert Advice on What Can Be Done
Over the last few years -- with all-too-frequent regularity -- we've seen violent acts committed in schools across the country. Three experts weigh in with advice.
- The Bedwetting Blues
It's a messy problem for many children and parents. The good news: There are ways to help kids overcome.
- Taking Father Time
Why do so few new dads take the paternity leave they're legally entitled to?
- He Ain't Heavy
A father of four finds ways to incorporate his children into his exercise plan.
- Going Nuts?
The time you spend with your partner or spouse won't necessarily make or break a marriage or a partnership, but it may help you manage the stresses that new parenthood places on a relationship.
- Keeping Kids Safe
In a scary world, how can parents help kids protect themselves?
- Know Thy Parent
Contrary to popular myth, it's impossible for parents to hold or respond to a baby too much, child development experts say. Infants need constant attention to give them the foundation to grow emotionally, physically and intellectually.
- Mommy, Am I Fat?
How to help your children like themselves just the way they are.
- Learning to Like Themselves
If you are the parent of a son or daughter who seems unhappy with how he or she looks, here are some tips for fostering healthy self-acceptance.
- If a Child Is Overweight
Here are a few ways that parents can help.
- Kids in the Water
Kids swim safely in the summertime.
- Teens Who Drink Too Much
Teenage drinking is on the rise, and a number of organizations nationwide have introduced programs to help parents and teens identify problem drinking before it does long-term damage.
- Young. Eager. And Drunk.
Binge drinking among college students has been in the news recently, but surveys show that troubles with alcohol tend to start much earlier.
- A Woman's Work Is Never Done
Everyone knows that breast is best, but are working moms getting the help they need? You may be surprised at the answer.
- Talking to Teens About Drugs
Talking to Teens About Drugs
- How Safe Is Junior at Play?
More than 240,000 playground injuries are treated each year in U.S. emergency rooms.
- Positive Time-Out..
While some discipline experts have rejected the idea of time-outs, Jane Nelsen, author of Positive Time-Out, suggests modifying time-outs to make them a comforting experience.
- Gentle Discipline Tips
The new parenting approach
- Positive Time-Out
Try modifying time-outs to make them more effective.
- Positive Time-Out
While some discipline experts have rejected the idea of time-outs, Jane Nelsen, author of Positive Time-Out, suggests modifying time-outs to make them a comforting experience.
- Gentle Discipline Tips
Three experts who have written extensively on the new, enlightened approach to parenting young children, offer suggestions for dealing with toddlers.