Parents & Kids

When trying to identify why many children gain weight at an early age, the conversation always seems to include the idea that schools, with their scheduling constraints and ever-tightening budgets, find it increasingly difficult to fund or create

Aren't spa treatments great? Don't those women seem to be having a lot of fun? Indeed, as wonderful as a day at the spa may be, we need to keep the benefits of a little pampering in check. 

The decision of what to feed a newborn can be fraught with anxiety — is breast milk the only way to go? If I choose formula am I somehow cheating my baby?

The emotional agony of losing a baby in utero can only be understood by the people that have experienced it. To the rest of us, it is unimaginable. 

If there is any group that could take the fun out of Halloween, it's chiropractors.*

As a nation, we have made progress in the medical and legal professions over the years in closing the occupational gender gap. Today, close to half of all med school graduates are women.

Yesterday, we wrote about the new SIDS recommendatio

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) falls into a larger category of "sudden uncategorized infant deaths" (SUID) alongside 'accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed' and those of 'unknown cause.'

Some clear thinking and sound guidance from one of the nation's leading medical associations on the issue of screen time is giving both parents and their technology-laden children reason to text thumbs-up emojis to one ano

Did the sea part?  The Earth spin off its axis?   Or, am I just dreaming that the rebirth of joy and humor and common sense and reasonableness could be the latest trend in parenting?  Pinch me, please.