Parenting

Most kids eagerly await the day when they get to move out on their own to either go to college or simply join the workforce and live by their own rules. However, sometimes things do not work out quite like junior thought he might – giving him no option but to move back home to live with mommy and daddy.

Okay, new fathers, pop quiz: it’s 2 a.m. and your infant hasn’t stopped crying for an hour. What do you do? If you don’t know, maybe it’s time to enroll in baby boot camp.

Want to keep your kids from drinking and driving? A new study says not doing it yourself is a good start.

A 9-year-old North Carolina boy was suspended from school after saying a teacher was “cute” — a remark the school principal called sexual harassment.

A study of 20,000 US families found kids with fathers suffering from depression are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than other children. Michael Weitzman at the New York University School of Medicine, who authored the study, said these findings are especially important at a time when unemployment is high and some military dads are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with emot

The parents of three children, who gave each of them Nazi names, including Adolf Hitler, have finally lost custody of all three kids. On Thursday, a New Jersey appeals court ruled that the children, who have been in foster care, should not be returned to the couple due to evidence of domestic violence in the home. The court has returned the case to family court for further reconsideration. Read Mo

Police took custody of a Honolulu couple’s 3-year-old daughter after they were arrested for stealing $10 worth of sandwiches in a local Safeway, even after they offered to pay for the food.

Naming a child is usually the first big decision a new parent makes, and one that almost one and ten would like to do be able to do again.

In its latest guidelines for doctors, the American Academy of Pediatrics is advising against the usage of bumper pads in cribs, saying they may increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

In the first study of its kind, researchers compared the testosterone level of men when they were single and childless to their testosterone level after they had had a child. While testosterone always decreases when men age, the decline was much more pronounced among the men who had become fathers.

A co-worker posted about this story on Facebook and I just knew that I had to pass it along. David Stocker and Kathy Witterick of Toronto have decided to keep the gender of their third child, named Storm, an absolute secret from not only the public at large, but from their friends and family as well.