parenting

Here's a heart-warming story for you:  I saw this 'status update' on Facebook this morning: It's our last day with Cappy....

Well kids, here's the skinny, the majority of parents lie.  So just when you thought you got one over on them, the shoe may have been on the other foot.

Well, this stinks. Following an explosion at a chemical factory in Japan, the world may be facing a looming (and smelly) crisis: a diaper shortage. The Nippon Shokubai Company's plant in Himeji is a leading producer of acrylic acid, a main component in disposable diapers. Over the weekend, it went boom.

Babies can be exhausting enough during the day, but when they cry throughout the night the so-called bundles of joy can leave their parents cranky and depressed.

As the summer winds down you’re counting down the days to freedom. Admit it — you can’t wait for your kids to go back to school.

I thought that this clip was cute: Dad dresses like Spidey, takes the kid to the "jump park", kid gets his own Spiderman outfit, thinks that he is spending the day with the real Spiderman!

It’s everyone’s fear. You have it, we have it — but it’s inevitable. One day you’re going to look at yourself and realize that you’ve turned into what you hate the most…your parents.

Have baby boomers created a lazy 'next generation'?  I heard someone say over the weekend that "this generation of young people seem to want everything handed to them on a silver platter.

While some parents prefer the use of non-violent disciplinary actions against their mischievous children, others take no shame in dishing out some good old-fashioned corporal punishment as a means of teaching little junior some of the lessons of life.

Let me start this by saying that I am not a parent.  I am not condemning or condoning these parenting skills (or lack thereof, depending on your view), I am simply putting this out there for you to view and comment on.

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

A recent Gallup poll of 1,020 adults shows that, if Americans could only have one child, they’d rather have a boy than a girl According to the poll, published Thursday, 40 percent said they’d want to have a boy, while 28 percent said they’d rather have a girl instead.

  DON’T KID YOURSELF That bundle of joy might not be so joyful after all. According to a new study, having kids might not actually make you happy, depending on your age.  Among couples under age 30, those with kids were less happy than those without kids, and the more kids the young parents had, the less happy they were.  However, the trend flip-flops in parents over 40- they are increasingly happ