parenting

When my wife and I found out she was pregnant with our first child, our thinking about food safety seemed to shift overnight. Fears that we once disregarded suddenly morphed into potential threats we had to assess for our son's sake.

Obesity-related issues are more problematic than those associated with smoking, considering the tsunami of at least forty chronic preventable diseases, which result in its wake.

"When you don’t know someone well enough to buy them a gift, you give them money; likewise, self-confidence and diligence are seen as the universal tool for the child who must “become someone”—you know not who.

I'm the proud new father of a baby girl. And as Alexandre Dumas once said, "It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman." He's absolutely right.

In a piece published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers present a proof-of-concept study maintaining they designed “an accessible solution that uses speakers and microphones within existing smartphones to det

New research published in Pediatrics analyzed the rate of foreign-body ingestions (FBIs) in young children (under age 6) only to determine it inc

Expectant parents are bombarded from all directions about what they should or should not worry about before the baby is even born - not that this ever stops after delivery.

An NPR account of a teenager getting vaccinated despite his parents opposition is making the rounds in the press and on s

Bet you can’t count how many movie scenes about childbirth you have watched in your lifetime. You know the ones highly choreographed to protract the drama leading up to the birth that then capture the magical, emotional euphoria after delivery.

A 16-year-old Ohio teen was in for an apparent rude awakening after calling 911 on her father for “theft of property.” In a now viral video (see here) capt