"Parents who are serious about raising children to be decent people spend an awful lot of time guiding them. It's not enough for us to...

“Dr. Laura....How will they know right from wrong when they are never taught something will happen when they do wrong? What ...

The plots of dystopian novels can be amazing. A group of teens in Holland, Mich., tells me about some of their favorites: In Delirium by...

1 Limits Teach Kids Self-Discipline Setting limits teaches self-discipline skills. When you say, “It's time to turn off your video gam

Storytelling is one of the oldest and most powerful ways of sharing ideas and transferring knowledge from one generation to the next.

Ask a room full of adults how to handle a child’s bad behavior, and you will get a rainbow of answers. Parents across generations have...

Check with your local department of parks and recreation about camps and other activities.

Path to improved health: Below are some ways to help your kids have healthy habits: 1. Nutrition and physical activity: Children in the...

General Facts, Statistics, and Trends: There are over 2.3 million home school students in the United States.  That is, there were an...

Parents want the best for their children and, for some of them, that means sending their kids to private school. Maybe they don’t like...

Education is widely accepted to be a fundamental resource, both for individuals and societies. Indeed, in most countries basic ...

Of course, Mr. Kalman’s strategies are likely to be most effective if they are used to shut down teasing as soon as it starts. Some bullying

The labels are becoming all too familiar to modern families: ADHD, ADD, OCD, ODD and Bipolar Disorder just to name a few. Twelve percent...

“He is the heaviest six-week-old baby I’ve seen in thirty years”, exclaimed our Scottish midwife. As the words left her mouth, our son...

A mother berates her 13-year-old for what she’s posting on Facebook. A father gives his boy an embarrassing haircut as a punishment. A mot

There are plenty of ways to encourage kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says.

New parents worry about a lot of things, but the American Academy of Pediatrics says one thing they can cross off that list is concern abo

Obesity can lead to physical, social and emotional struggles for kids, so parents need to help their children maintain a healthy weight, e

Fathers-to-be who expose their pregnant partners to secondhand smoke put their babies at risk of heart defects, researchers warn. For ...

When it comes to reading to toddlers, apparently there is no substitute for an old-fashioned book.