Articles

"Sex Education" for the 3 to 7 year old child

Learning to Listen

10 Stresses on Working Families

10 Tips for talking with kids about tough issues

10 Ways to Tune out the TV

20 Most Common Reasons Parents Call their Child's doctor

2006 Top Baby Names

30 common Myths about Children debunked!

30 million children need emergency care each year - They can't all belong to someone else

4 Things to Avoid When Talking to a Teenager, and What You Can Do Instead

80 Organizations Support 10th Annual TV-Turnoff Week

A Best-Kept Secret of Your Teen: They Really Do Care What You Think

A Guide for Choosing the Right
Car Seat

A Night Out for Mom and Dad

A Nontraditional Families Recipe for Failure

A Parents Job Description

A Prayer for Children

A Quick Guide to Four Disabilities

A Sick Child and a Demanding Job

Adoption - Where do you start?

Aggression in children

Alcohol Pregnancy don't Mix

American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Firearm-related Injury Policy

And How are the Children?

Anger Management Strategies for Kids

Are There Benefits to Daycare?

Are you an Askable Parent?

Are you planning a trip this summer? Make it a success!

Articles and Q & A's on Toilet Training

Assessing and Managing School-Age Children with Behavioral Problems

Attention Deficit Disorder (Short Attention Span)

Autism -- Act Early To Make a Difference

Avoid Heat Related Injuries

Bad Eating Habits Start Near Age 2

BANISHING BABY BOTTLES

Be the Best Father You Can Be

Bear in the Little Square Box
How Television Affects our kids physical well-being

Bear in the Little Square Box
How Television Affects Our Youth's Mental Well-Being

Bedwetters

Benefits of Having Kids

Birth Order Helps Make Us Unique

Breakfast: The Most Important Meal of the Day

Breastfeeding: Information for the new mother

Building the right "self" for Life

Candy Cigarettes May Lead to the Real Thing

Casual Remarks

Causes of Misbehavior

Celebrating Memorial Day With Kids

Census Bureau Says 7 Million Grade School
Children Home Alone

Child care and child socialization

Childcare - The Right Person and Discipline in Childcare

Childcare - When Relatives or Neighbors Provide Daycare and Preparing Your Child for Childcare

Childcare- Keys to Good Childcare and Kids Need Time and Attention

Childhood Injury: It's no Accident!

Children Need Body Mass Checkups!

Children riding in pickup trucks

Children's Sleep Habits

Choosing a Baby Sitter

Choosing a Dog for your Child

Choosing a summer camp for your child

Choosing Your Battles

Code of Conduct for Children's Sporting Events

Cold Medicine Risky for Babies, Toddlers

Common Characteristics of Learning Disabilities

Controling Sibling Rivalry

Cooking Turkey Is a Family Affair…with the Right Food Safety Tools

Dealing with Chronic Kidney Disease

Dealing with Chronic Kidney Disease - Part 2

Dealing with Sibling Rivalry

Developmental Milestones

Developmental Milestones of Early Reading

Diapers and your Baby's First Year

Discipline: A Parent's Guide

Divorced or Separated Parents can make holidays bright for children

Do Parents Care if their Kids are Fat?

Do you have a Parenting Plan (part 1)?

Do you have a Parenting Plan (part 2)?

Do you have a strong family?
A Checklist for Parents and Teens

Do You Smoke? So do Your Kids and Grandkids

Does Divorce Damage Your Kids? 10 Tips for Survival

Dog Days of Winter!

Don't Invite Food-Poisoning to Dinner

Don't Let Food Poisoning Spoil Your Summer Fun

Don't let your Child's Health Go Up in Smoke

Down Syndrome Demystified

Eating misbehavior

Evaluating Vaccine Information on the World Wide Web

Eye on Safety Makes Halloween Less Scary

Family Meetings Build Stronger Ties

Family Support in Community Pediatrics: Confronting New Challenges

Fear not Fever

Fit Teens May Be Safer Teens

Five Resolutions Every Parent Should Make

Five Truths about Teen Smoking

Follow these steps to avoid homesickness at camp

For the Love of Children, Follow these Guidelines

Four Big Tips for Parents of Teens

Getting Children away from the Television

Getting kids out of the crossfire

Getting Kids to Write Thank You Notes

Getting the Lead Out

Getting through the School Daze

Gimmie-free Holiday Shopping

Give Your Child the Gift of Self-Esteem

Good Teens Start With Good Beans

Halloween and Hounds

Halloween History and Trivia

Halloween Safety Tips

Handling Unwanted Advice

Happy Holiday Season Depends on Family Financial Planning

Have you Played a Board Game Lately?

Head Banging

Healthy Baby: 7 - 9 Months

Healthy Eating for Kids

Healthy holiday eating for kids

Healthy Sexuality in Children

Healthy Sexuality in Children, part 2

Hearing Damage from Noisy Toys

Help Your Child Do Better in School

Helping Children Cope With Holiday Stress

Helping Children of Divorce

Helping Children Understand Other Cultures

Helping Our Children Deal with Shocking Events

Helping our Children Feel Safe: Tips for Every Parent

Helping Your Baby Adjust to Strangers

Helping Your Child Make The Grade

Helping Your Children through the Grief Process

Helping Your Children to Be Money-Savvy

Helping Your Teenager through the Grief Process

Herbal Medicines May Hurt Children

Here's to the Kids who are Different

Hidden Messages to our Kids
What our actions really mean!

Holiday Meltdowns are Predictable and Important

Honey, Turn that TV Off!

How are Our Boys Doing?

How does your state measure up?

How I Grow in your Care: Eight to Eighteen Months

How I Grow in your Care: Eighteen Months to Three Years

How To Avoid the Hyper-Parenting Trap

How to be an Imperfect Parent

How to Best Control Family Television Viewing

How to Control Biting
in a daycare or preschool setting

How to Have a Good Relationship with Your Child's Teacher

How to Raise a Healthy Baby: 1-2 Months

How to Raise a Healthy Baby: 5 - 6 Months

How to Respond when your Child Asks about Death

How to Talk to Your Kids About Anything

How to talk to your kids about death

How TV takes a toll on young minds and bodies

How we grow as Parents!

Hurricanes: Coping with Children's fears

Immunize Children Against Prejudice

Important Family Records

In the event of Bioterrorism

Infant Swimming Classes: A Good or Bad Idea?

Infantile Colic: Which treatments work, and which do not!

Influence Your Child's Brain Potential

Inhalants - A Middle-School addiction that kills

Injury Prevention

Innocence Lost: Helping your child cope with tragedy

Is it safe to sleep with your infant?

Is My Child Okay?

Is your child at risk for an eating disorder (results and resources)

Is Your Child Being Retained a Grade in School?

Is your child cheating

Is Your Child Ready to be Left Alone?

Is your teen at risk for an eating disorder?

Is Your Teen Drug Dependent? Would You Ever Know?

Just a Few Clicks Away

Just Say YES

Keep a current immunization record

Keep Your Kids Safe and Sound This Halloween

Keeping teens on the right track all summer long

Keeping the Kids Clean and Germ-Free

Kids and TV Researchers Urge Parents to Cut Back - and Offer Help on how to pull the plug

Kids Finances: Allowances and Chores

Kids Heed Anti-Smoking Messages From Schools, Parents

Kids of Separated Parents: The Annual Holiday Access Dispute

Kids Still Riding In Front Seats

Learningames

Low Birthweight Infants

Lying, Cheating, and Stealing

Magazines for Kids

Make "roughing it" safe for campers

Make America Safe for Children

Make Lemons into Lemonade: Use Positives for Disciplining Children

Make the Most of Your Child’s Appointment

Make Volunteering A Family Priority

Managing Morning Madness

Meeting the Needs of the Brothers and Sisters
of Children with Disabilities and Special Needs

Messy Mealtimes? Try these tips!

Minor Problem or True Emergency

Mom I am bored!

Moments in America for All Children

Most Popular Baby Names for 2001

Most Popular Baby Names in 2002

Moving: Easing the Transition for Children

Myths about Kids and Sleep

Myths about Parenting

Myths of the Only Child

Nail Biting

National TV-Turnoff Week - Alternatives to Television

National TV-Turnoff Week - By the Numbers

National TV-Turnoff Week!

New Museum Teaches Tolerance

New Survey Reveals Parents’ Reactions to Children who Stutter

Number of Smoke-Free Households on the Increase

Nurturing your Child's Development 2 to 6 months

Nurturing your Child's Development 6 to 9 months

Obese kids: A weighty problem!

On Coping with Death

On-Line Data Base of Hate Group Signs and Terms Now Available

Our Children: Are They Suffering From Stress?

Our Resources for Avoiding a Parent's Worst Nightmare - Substance Abuse

Parenting American Style

Parenting Behaviors predict problems

Parenting Magazine Printouts

Parenting Tip of the Week: A Short Course in Parent-Child Relations

Parenting Tip of the Week: Dealing with the Child who is Stubborn

Parenting Tip of the Week: How to Turn Household Items Into Fun Learning Tools For Young Children

Parenting Tip of the Week: Some Ideas for Family Communication

Parenting Tip of the Week: The Joys of Volunteering

Parenting Tip of the Week:
Working Parents: Show kids they are the priority in your life!

Parenting Tip of the Week:
Parent's Bed - Off Limits!

Parenting Tip of the Week
Family Overload and How to Manage It!

Parenting your teenager: It doesn't have to be all or nothing!

Parents and Coaches can save good sportsmanship from extinction

Parents Can Halt The Alarming Increase In Childhood Obesity

Parents Should Help Kids Prepare for September 11 Anniversary

Parents urged to check furnaces to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning

Parents' Guide for Dealing with the tragedy of September 11, 2001

Parents, Kids Don’t Perceive being overweight as a Health Problem

Parents: Your kids need you!

Pesticide Safety for Home Gardening

Picky Eaters

Play it Safe for the Holidays

Play it Safe when on Amusement Park Rides

Playgrounds Pose Threat to Children

Playing with Fire

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children: After an Emergency is Over

Prayer for a Tired, Irritable Parent

Prevent Household Poisonings

Preventing accidents and injuries during your child's bath

Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Preventing Child Abuse

Prevention of Infant Sleep Problems

Printable Immunization Information for Parents

Protect kids from Joe Camel

Protect your Family From Travelers' Diarrhea

Protect your kids from illness; Don't Smoke

Protecting your child's vision

Ramadan

Reducing Sibling Rivalry

Replenish thyself: Steering clear of parent burnou

Ronald McDonald vs. Joe Camel in Smoking Debate

Safe from Strangers

Safe on the School Bus?

Safety and the Internet

Safety on Wheels

Safety Tips for the Holidays

Scheduling a Diversity of Holidays

School Bus Safety

School Phobia

Self-Righteousness vs, Self-Esteem

Set Aside Time to Exercise with your Kids

Setting Limits with Teens

Seven Steps to Better Negotiation With Your Child

Seven Things you can do if your child cheats.....

Should I give my daughter the cervical cancer vaccine?

Should I Let My Baby Cry it Out?

Should Parents be worried about Bioterrorism?

Sibling Rivalry and How to Stop It

Siblings Fighting with Each Other

Sit-Down Restaurants’ Kids’ Fare Often Worse Than Fast Food

Six Parenting Myths

Six Positive Things Parents Can Do for their Child

Sleep Problems and the Television

Sleep-Deprived Teens Pose Safety Hazard

Smoke-Free Class Halfway to Goal

Sometimes a Child's Best Teacher is a Loyal Pet

Statistics show molesters are usually known to the family

Stepfamilies - Facts and Fictions

Strike a pet, strike a person

Study shows most new moms exhausted

Study: Many Kids Too Fat by Preschool

Successfully Raising Teenagers in Today's Crazy World

Suddenly Single: The Five Stages of Grief

Suffer the Children of Abused Mothers

Summer Break - Tips For A Healthy Summer A Guide for Parents of Young Teens

Summer Can Bring Sun, Fun and Trouble

Summer Home Learning Recipies

Summer Months Tempting Time for Teenagers to Try Drugs, Alcohol for the First Time

Summer Reading List for Elementary School Children

Summer Safety Tips , part II

Summer Safety Tips - 2007

Summer tips for parents and students

Surviving Sibling Rivalry

Tables of Normal Growth

Talking to Kids about Elian Gonzalez

Talking to Kids about Puberty

Talking to Kids about Strangers

Talking to Kids about War and Terrorism

Talking to your Children About Strangers

Talking With Children About Iraq

Talking with kids about disasters

Talking with Kids About War

Talking with your Kids: Resources on Kidsgrowth.com

Teach Your Children Tolerance

Teaching Children to Bounce Back
Ways to Raise Resilient Kids

Teaching Good Manners

Teasing and the Short Child

Teens and Depression

Teens' reactions following a Crisis

Television and the Family

Temper Tantrums getting the better of you?

Ten Back to School Tips

Ten Steps for Step-Parents

Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew

Ten Tips to Prevent Child Abduction and Molestation

Thanks to Ads, Kids Won't Take No, No, No, No, No for an answer

The 25 Unwanted Things Parents do to their Kids

The Angry Child

The Emotional Ties Between Parents and Children

The Fifty Commandments
of Family Etiquette

The Five Stages of Grief

The Future Cost of Education

The Joys of Homeschooling

The Myths and Truths about Down Syndrome

The Power of Choice

The Real Facts about your Child's IQ

The Tragedy at Fort Hood: Helping Your Children Cope

The Truth about "Only" Children

The Ultimate Quiz for Parents

There's Something About Twins

Things to Do if You Leave Your Child Home Alone

Think Your Kid Won't Try Drugs?

Thirteen Ways to Raise a Nonreader

Three R's Of Medicine Cabinet Safety

Three Teen Tools to Create Cooperation and Build Respect

Tips for a Safer Turkey

Tips for Parents: Helping Kids say No to drinking

Tips for Raising Teenagers

Tips for Spotting Adolescent Depression

Tips for the Tongue-Tied Parent

Tips to Help Parents Cope with the Effects of Terrorism

Tips to Make Your Family Stronger

To Clean or Not to Clean (Your Child's Room)

Today's Family Man: Tapping Dad's Potential

Toilet Training Basics

Toilet Training Do's and Don'ts

Too much couch time zaps the energy of tired students

Too Sexy, Too Soon

Top 10 Diagnoses by Pediatricians in 2005

Top Ten Summertime Tips

Toy Safety a Major Cause of Concern for Parents and Gift-Givers This Year

Toy Safety Warnings Issued for the Holidays

Traveling with Children this Summer

Treading on Sacred Ground

Treat TV as Guest, Not Resident

True Sports(wo)manship, Real Role Models for Kids

Turn television viewing toward positive ends

TV Turn-Off Week: Take Up The Challenge

TV-Turnoff Week 2005 - April 25 to May 1

Understanding Grief.... When Your Child Dies

Understanding Teens: Opening the Door to a Better Relationship

Understanding the feelings and behaviors of the Middle School Child

Urgent Recalls:
Stand-up 'N Play Tables
Wiggle Waggle Caterpillar Toys
Hop,Skip Jumpers

Vacationing with Children - What to do and what not to do

Valentine's Day without the Calories - 2006

Violence is Back in the News

What about me? The Effects of Divorce on Children

What Did You Do Today?

What if the BULLY is YOUR child?

What is bullying?

What is Down Syndrome?

What is your Parenting Personality?

What Parents Can Do About TV

What parents can do to stimulate brain development in their growing child

What to Do If a Friend Talks of Suicide

What To Do So Your Kids Don’t Stress You Out

What you may (or may not) know about Child Development

What's a Medical Home?

When a Child Uses Bad Language

When Busy is Too Busy

When do your feel your best .... and worst?

When isn’t child sex play just play?

When should parent's search their child's room?

When the Crisis in Iraq Strikes Home

When Young Children Handle their Genitals

Who's For Kids and Who's Just Kidding

Why Immunize?

Why Kids Bite Other Kids.....and How to Stop It!

Why Stop Spanking?

Why Teenagers Become So Impossible

Winter Safety Tips

Wonderful Watermelon

You can Save Your Child's Life

Your (Constantly) Growing Child

Your Kids and Drugs: 20 Tips for Parents to Help You Make a Difference

Your Pet Can Affect Your Family's Health

Health Information from our Experts

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