Articles

Physical Activity Guidelines for your Infant and Toddler

Guides for Giving Medication

Resources for Parents

1 -year Developmental Checklist

10 Guidelines for Divorcing Parents

10 Support Mechanisms for Fathers-to-Be

10 Tips for Raising Children of Character

10 Tips for talking with kids about tough issues

10 Ways to Tune out the TV

101 Ways to Soothe a Crying Baby

12 Prom Tips for Dads

12 Prom Tips for Dads

2 - year Developmental Checklist

20 Most Common Reasons Parents Call their Child's doctor

20 reasons why your child needs you to be an active father

2005 "10 Worst Toys" List

2005 Worst Toy List

2006 Top Baby Names

3 - month Developmental Checklist

3 -Year Developmental Checklist

3 Tips To Getting Your Children To Organize Their Old Toys

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

4-year Developmental checklist

5 -Year Developmental Checklist

7 - Month Developmental Checklist

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 Parent's Job Description

A Parent's Response to bullying

A Parents Job Description

A Prayer for Children

A Sick Child and a Demanding Job

Abnormal Head Shapes in Infants

Action Points for Committed Fathers: Know Your Kids for Safety's Sake

Action Points for Committed Fathers: Teaching Respect

Action Points for Committed Fathers: Your Child's World

Action Points for Fathers: Life Challenges

Ad Spotlights Teen Abuse of Medicinal Drugs

Adolescent Suicide:
What are the Warning Signs?

Adults and Baby Talk

Advice for Parents: My Child Has Burn

After the baby comes home

After the Immunizations... what to do if your child has discomfort

Age for Starting Solid Foods

Aggression in children

All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Noah's Ark

American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Firearm-related Injury Policy

American Youngsters Yawning Through Class

And How are the Children?

Anger Management Strategies for Kids

Appreciating Develoipmental Milestones

Are You a Healthy Eater?

Are you an Askable Parent?

Are You an Emotional Eater?

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

Are you spoiling your baby?

Articles and Q & A's on Biting and Hitting

Articles and Q & A's on Toilet Training

Articles and Questions/Answers on Children and Sleeping

Ask your neighbor.......
if there is a gun in the house

Attention Deficit Disorder (Short Attention Span)

Avoid Heat Related Injuries

Back to School Tips
...from the American Academy of Pediatrics

Bad Eating Habits Start Near Age 2

BANISHING BABY BOTTLES

Be sure to ask the right questions

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

Becoming a Dad

Bedwetters

Benefits of Having Kids

Birth Order Helps Make Us Unique

Body Mass Index

Books for Kids about Bullies!

Building the right "self" for Life

Building your baby's brainpower

Bully Proofing Our Kids

Calm Parents . . . Calm Baby

Can We Prevent Infants from Waking at Night?

Cancer: How to Talk about It

Candy Cigarettes May Lead to the Real Thing

Casual Remarks

Causes of Misbehavior

Celebrating Memorial Day With Kids

Child care and child socialization

Childcare - How to Find Good Childcare and How to Prepare Yourself for Childcare

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!

Childhood Obesity

Childhood Obesity and Dads

Children and Limits

Children and Stress: Are You Pushing Your Child Too Hard?

Children and Terrorism

Children and the Aftermath of Katrina: From fear to hope

Children Grieve in Their Own Ways

Children Left in Cars at Risk for Burns and Heat

Children's Sleep Habits

Choosing a Baby Sitter

Choosing a Sport 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

Colic ‚ Does Your Baby Have it? What Can You Do About It?

Communicating with Your Teen

Controling Sibling Rivalry

Controlling Childhood Obesity - ABC News

Cool Tips for Beating the Heat

Cost of Raising Kids

Dad's Dream Ties

Dads and Daughters

Dads! Get Involved in your Child's Education

Dads: Can your kids confide in you?

Dealing with Tantrums

Dealing with Temper Tantrums

Developing a trusting relationship with your infant

Developmental Milestones

Developmental Milestones of Early Reading

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 Parenting Plan?

Do You Live in One of America's Fattest Cities?

Does Divorce Damage Your Kids? 10 Tips for Survival

Does your teen know what to do in the event of a car accident? Do You?

Dog Doo to Do!

Don't Wait too Long to Prepare for a New Baby

Down Syndrome Demystified

Eating misbehavior

Eating Out With Children Can Be Fun

Eating Slump in Toddlers

Effects of Divorce on Children

Ego-Builders to Use with Your Teen

Eight Steps to Sensible Eating

Eliminate Whining!

Emergency Room Tips

Evaluating the Treatments for Colic

Evaluating Vaccine Information on the World Wide Web

Every kid will get sick. No child escapes!

Eye on Safety Makes Halloween Less Scary

Failure to Thrive

Fathering in the First Weeks of Parenthood:
A Checklist for New Dads

Fear not Fever

Feeding Infants and Toddlers Under Two Years

Feeding Suggestions for the First Year

Feeding Your Infant

Feeding your One-Year old Child

Finding a Safe Haven for your Baby

Finding Joy in your Children

First Grade- Is Your Child Ready?

First Graders and Proverbs

Fit Teens May Be Safer Teens

Five Important Reasons to Immunize Your Child

Five Resolutions Every Parent Should Make

Five Truths about Teen Smoking

Flying with Children and Ear Pain

Follow these steps to avoid homesickness at camp

For Fathers: Should You Tell Your Kids Everything?

For Getting Baby to Sleep Sticking to a Plan Is What Counts

For Getting Baby to Sleep, Sticking to a Plan Is What Counts

Four Big Tips for Parents of Teens

Germ Warfare: Common Cold and Flu Culpirts

Get Active With kids This Season

Get Your Toddler to Cooperate!

Getting a Father to Help More with the Baby

Getting a Father to Help More with the Baby

Getting a Father to Help More with the Baby

Getting Along

Getting Children away from the Television

Getting kids out of the crossfire

Getting Kids To Bed

Getting Kids to Write Thank You Notes

Getting the Best out of Managed Care

Getting the Lead Out

Getting through the School Daze

Getting your child ready for kindergarten!

Gimmee-Free Holiday Shopping

Gimmie-free Holiday Shopping

Giving Children Medicine at School

Going Visiting with your Baby

Good Sportsmanship for Mom and Dad

Growth Milestones - 2 Months

Growth Milestones - EIGHTEEN MONTHS

Growth Milestones - FIFTEEN MONTHS

Growth Milestones - FOUR MONTHS

Growth Milestones - FOUR YEARS

Growth Milestones - NINE MONTHS

Growth Milestones - SIX MONTHS

Growth Milestones - THREE YEARS

Growth Milestones - TWELVE MONTHS

Growth Milestones - TWO YEARS

Guidelines for Raising a Well-Behaved Child

Halloween and Hounds

Halloween Safety Tips

Handling Unwanted Advice

Hanukkah

Happy Holiday Season Depends on Family Financial Planning

He Never Acts This way in School

Health and Safety Precautions: A Back to School "Shopping List" for Parents

Health Insurance Coverage For Every Child - What every parent can do

Healthy Baby: 7 - 9 Months

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity: What Should my Child Eat?

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 With Hospitalization

Help Your Child Do Better in School

Help your Teen Lose Weight

Help! My Child Lies

Helpful Hints for your Child's First Day at School

Helping Children Cope With Holiday Stress

Helping children deal with Teasing

Helping Children Grow Socially

Helping Children of Divorce

Helping Children to Share

Helping Create a Positive School Attitude
10 Timely Tips for School Success

Helping Kids stand up to peer pressure

Helping Our Children Deal with Shocking Events

Helping Your Child Make The Grade

Helping Your Child Cope with Anger

Helping Your Children to Be Money-Savvy

Helping your Overweight Child

Helping Your Teenager Cope with Cliques

Helping Your Teenager through the Grief Process

Herbal Medicines May Hurt Children

Hidden Messages to our Kids
What our actions really mean!

History of Father's Day

How are Our Boys Doing?

How can Parents tell how sick their child really is?

How do children learn what is right and wrong?

How Fathers Mature

How I Grow in your Care: Birth to Eight Months

How I Grow in your Care: Eight to Eighteen Months

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

How Many Cigarettes Did Your Child Smoke Today Without You Knowing It?

How not to Verbally or Emotionally Abuse your Child.

How To Avoid the Hyper-Parenting Trap

How to be an Imperfect Parent

How to be the Ultimate Parent!

How to Control Biting
in a daycare or preschool setting

How to decode your teen

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

How to help stop your child from whining

How to help your child stop whining

How to keep your teen safe on the Internet

How to Put an Infant to Sleep

How to Raise a Healthy Baby - 3 to 4 months

How to Raise a Healthy Baby: 1-2 Months

How to Raise a Healthy Baby: 5 - 6 Months

How to Raise a Healthy Baby: The Newborn

How to Respond when your Child Asks about Death

How to Start your Baby on Solid Foods

How to Talk so your Teen will Listen

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

I already have one of these
Teaching kids to respond politely for a gift

I Want my Blankey!

Immunizations: Not just for Kids!

Improving the Father-Daughter Relationship

In the Child's Voice ( Birth to 8 Months)

Index of Sleep Resources

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

Influence Your Child's Brain Potential

Injury Prevention

Innocent Messages to Young Children may be Harmful

Instill a Lifelong Habit of Reading

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 at risk for smoking?

Is your child cheating

Is your child getting enough sleep?

Is your teen at risk for an eating disorder?

Is Your Teen Drug Dependent? Would You Ever Know?

It's Time for the Big Talk
Now what?

Just Say YES

Keep the Consequences Logical

Keep Your Child Watered All Year Long

Keep Your Kids Safe and Sound This Halloween

Keeping Kids Safe - Without Scaring Them

Keeping teens on the right track all summer long

Keeping Your Child Substance Free

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

Kids Heed Anti-Smoking Messages From Schools, Parents

Kids of Separated Parents: The Annual Holiday Access Dispute

Learningames

Life as a Parent

Listen with your Heart

Little League Lunacy

Look for TV Turnoff Week in Your Neighborhood

Low Birthweight Infants

Lying, Cheating, and Stealing

Magazines for Kids

Make America Safe for Children

Make Lemons into Lemonade: Use Positives for Disciplining Children

Make the Most of Your Child’s Appointment

Managing Morning Madness

Marijuana: How to Tell Your Kids to Say No, Even if You Didn’t

Marketing to the Young: The Tobacco Industry and Flavored Cigarettes

Mastering the Change from Elementary to Middle School

Messy Mealtimes? Try these tips!

Mistakes Grandparents Make

Mom - There's a Monster in the Closet!

Mom I am bored!

More Men are Enjoying Fatherhood

Most Common Baby Names in 2003

Moving: Easing the Transition for Children

My Child is having a seizure!

Myths about Kids and Sleep

Myths about Parenting

Myths about the Eye

Myths of the Only Child

Nail Biting

Name That Cry!

Narrow down the causes of sudden declining grades in your teen

New Book Clears Up Misconceptions About Eating Disorders

New Key to Autism

New Survey Reveals Parents’ Reactions to Children who Stutter

Newborn Babies and Sleep

Newborn Sleep Mistakes Most Parent's Make

Night Awakenings from Holding Until Asleep
The Trained Night Crier

Nurturing your Child's Development

Nurturing your Child's Development 2 to 6 months

Nurturing your Child's Development 6 to 9 months

Nurturing Your Child's Development: 0 to 2 months

Obese kids: A weighty problem!

On Coping with Death

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

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

Over wrapping infants in the winter can lead to increased risk of SIDS

Overweight: A Weight Reduction Program

Parenting - An Adventure

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: Opportunities Not To Be Missed

Parenting Tip of the Week: Simple Ways to Boost Your Child's Self- Esteem

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

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

Parenting Tip of the Week
Time out and 1-2-3 Magic

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

Parents - Trust your Intuition

Parents - Trust your Intuition

Parents Can Halt The Alarming Increase In Childhood Obesity

Parents can help prevent teen driver car crashes

Parents of Infants, Take the First Step Toward a Trusting Relationship

Parents Should Dispose of Ipecac Syrup

Parents Should Help Kids Prepare for September 11 Anniversary

Parents Shouldn't Minimize Hurricane Fear

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

Parents' Involvement Helps Kids Overcome Peer Influence on smoking

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

Party Behavior: How to Help Your Child Become a Little Lady or Gentleman

Passing the Torch - When do Parents stop worrying?

Picky Eaters

Play to Learn - Early Child Development

Playpen Guilt

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

PostPartum Depression

Potty Training: What to do when your child won't

Prayer for a Tired, Irritable Parent

Preparing a child to repeat a grade in School

Preparing our kids for peer pressure

Preschool Behavior: Who Is the Boss?

Prevent Household Poisonings

Preventing accidents and injuries during your child's bath

Preventing Adolescent Suicide

Preventing and Treating Burns

Preventing Child Abuse

Preventing Separation Anxiety

Prevention of Infant Sleep Problems

Prom: PROMise to Keep It Safe

Promoting Physical Activity and Exercise among Children

Protecting your child's vision

Psychological effects of childhood obesity

Puberty - Time for "The Talk"

Quiz: Have Baby, Will Travel

Raising a Healthy Baby Index

Raising Children who Think First and then Make Good Decisions

Reducing Heat-Rated Injuries in the Child-Athlete

Reducing Sibling Rivalry

Regular Naps Improve Nighttime Sleep

Replenish thyself: Steering clear of parent burnou

Resources for Parents

Respect: Getting What You Give

Rewards Many for Active Dads

Safe from Strangers

Safety and the Internet

School Phobia

Self-Righteousness vs, Self-Esteem

Setting Limits

Setting Limits and Standing Firm

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

Sexual behaviors in 2 - 6 year olds. What is normal and what is not

Should I give my daughter the cervical cancer vaccine?

Should I Let My Baby Cry it Out?

Sibling Rivalry and How to Stop It

Siblings Fighting with Each Other

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

Six Developmental Milestones Assess Child s Readiness for Kindergarten

Six Positive Things Parents Can Do for their Child

Soft Bedding in Playpens: a dangerous combination!

Solid Foods May Lack Necessary Nutrients
Ross Introduces Similac 2 for Children 6 to 18

Spring Break and your Adolescent

Start Healthy Feeding Guidelines: 6 months to 15 months

Start Healthy Feeding Guidelines: Newborn to 5 Months

Start your (Parenting) Year off Right!

Stepfamilies - Facts and Fictions

Stop Picking Your Nose

Study Links TV Habits To Reading Trouble

Study shows most new moms exhausted

Study: Many Kids Too Fat by Preschool

Suddenly Single: The Five Stages of Grief

Suggestions for Feeding the Toddler

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

Summer Can Bring Sun, Fun and Trouble

Summer Safety Tips , part II

Summer Safety Tips - 2007

Sun Power, Sun Fun, Sun Know-How

Survey Says Parents, Kids Get Failing Grade in Child Helmet Use

Sweet Drinks Linked to Preschool Weight

Tables of Normal Growth

Talk to your kids about the Swine Flu

Talking to Children about Obesity

Talking to Kids about Strangers

Talking to Kids about War and Terrorism

Talking to your Children About Strangers

Talking to Your Kids about the Current Financial Crisis

Talking with kids

Teaching Good Manners

Teasing and Bullying

Teasing and the Short Child

Teen Gambling is not always a safe bet!

Teens and Depression

Teens at Risk: Stressors and Signs

Teens staying home alone this summer

Teens' reactions following a Crisis

Temper Tantrums getting the better of you?

Temper Tantrums: Who, What, Where and Why

Ten Back to School Tips

Ten Father Facts

Ten Secrets Teens Want You To Know!

Ten Signs Your Teenager is Burning Out

Ten Simple Rules for Dating my Daughter

Ten Steps for Step-Parents

Ten Tips for Dads to Promote Daughters' Sports

Ten Tips for Live-Away Dads

Ten Tips for Live-away Fathers

Ten Tips for New Dads

Ten Tips for Nurturing Your Child

Ten Tips to Prevent Child Abduction and Molestation

Ten Ways to Help Your Child Fail

Ten Ways to Strengthen Father's Connections with their Children

Test Taking Do's and Don'ts for Parents

Testing the Newborn for Metabolic Birth Defects

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

The 10 Most Important Things Parents Can Give Their Kids

The 25 Unwanted Things Parents do to their Kids

The Angry Child

The Brain's Response to Drugs

The Characteristics of Baby Monitors

The Facts of Cough Medicine Abuse

The Five Stages of Grief

The Future Cost of Education

The Good Parent

The Healthy Dozen List for Toddlers

The hospitalized child - how to communicate with your doctor and the hospital staff

The Importance of Play

The Joys of Homeschooling

The Joys of Motherhood

The Myths and Truths about Down Syndrome

The New McCarthyism: Vaccines & Autism

The Newborn: When it's normal
to be abnormal!

The Privilege of Parenting

The Real Facts about your Child's IQ

The Seven Biggest Discipline Mistakes

The Shy Child

The Top 5 Things to Avoid Saying to your Teeenager

The Top Ten Surprises of Fatherhood

The Top Ten Worries of New Parents

The Tragedy at Fort Hood: Helping Your Children Cope

The Ultimate Quiz for Parents

The Value of Time

Things to Do if You Leave Your Child Home Alone

Thirteen Ways to Raise a Nonreader

Three Mistakes Parents of Overweight Kids Make

Three Teen Tools to Create Cooperation and Build Respect

Tips for Changing from Working Man to Daddy

Tips for Parents: Helping Kids say No to drinking

Tips for Protecting Your Child from Dog Bites

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

To Spank or Not to Spank?

Today's Family Man: Tapping Dad's Potential

Today’s Family Man - The 5 Commandments

Toddlers and Eating

Toilet Training Basics

Toilet Training Do's and Don'ts

Too much couch time zaps the energy of tired students

Too Sexy, Too Soon

Tools for Healthy Family Eating

Top 10 Reasons to Tell Your Kids Stories

Top 10 Ways to keep your kids from fighting

Top Baby Names

Top Ten Baby Names

Top Ten Baby Names for 2007

Top Ten List for New Dads

Top Ten Summertime Tips

Top Ten Tips For Disciplining Your Toddler

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

Tune into baby, not TV

TV Use Pervasive Among Tiniest Tots

Understanding Grief.... When Your Child Dies

Understanding the Basics of Managed Care

Understanding the feelings and behaviors of the Middle School Child

Universal Laws for Parenting Teens

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

Vaccination: Where to Find Good Sources of Information on the Internet

Valentine's Day without the Calories - 2006

Verbal Abuse

Violence is Back in the News

Walking in the Door

Weathering the ’Tween Years

Weekly Tips for Parents : Week of January 3, 2000

Weekly Tips for Parents January 10, 2000

Weekly Update for Fathers

What about me? The Effects of Divorce on Children

What antibiotic resistance means

What Did You Do Today?

What if the BULLY is YOUR child?

What is antibiotic resistance and why is it a problem?

What is Autism? Press release from the American Academy of Pediatrics

What is bullying?

What is Down Syndrome?

What is Emotional Abuse?

What is your Parenting Personality?

What is your Parenting Style?

What Parents can do to Combat Bullying

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

What Really Matters: Developing Character in Kids

What should I do if my child says he or she is too scared to go to sleep?

What to Do If a Friend Talks of Suicide

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

What to expect from your preschooler

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

What Your Kids Should Know About Gun Safety

What Your Pediatrician is Reading:
Quick Tool May Help Identify Victims of Abuse

What's In Your Child's Lunchbox?

What's New in the Treatment of Ear Infections?

What's so terrible about being two?

When Busy is Too Busy

When isn’t child sex play just play?

When Older kids steal

When Parents Disagree on Discipline

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

When That Belly Discomfort Won’t Go Away

When The Kids Won't Listen

When Young Children Handle their Genitals

Which Dog do you feed?

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

Why Should You Play with Your Kids?

Why Stop Spanking?

Why Teenagers Become So Impossible

Winter Safety Tips

With Parenthood, the Job Description Changes Frequently

Wonderful Watermelon

Words of Wisdom for good parenting

Your (Constantly) Growing Child

Your Child has Diabetes

Your Child's first Day of School

Your Child: Developing Healthy Eating Habits
and Recognizing Signs of Trouble

Health Information from our Experts

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My son is scheduled to receive 3 shots at his 5-yr. old checkup next week. How do I best prepare him for this without unduly upsetting him? (He has already heard about the painful shots from his classmates who have already had their 5-yr checkup.) Do I jus...

I have twin 5 1/2 month old boys. They weight approximately 19 lbs already. How much formula should they drink in a day? ...

I have begun to wean my 11-month old off formula, but my new pediatrician doesn't think I should be weaning yet. I also introduced a cup, but she said I should stay on the bottle until 18 months so that he drinks a minimum of 16-20 ounces of formula per da...

I found your premature boys growth weight charts I have a son born 4 weeks early at 5lb and 9 oz now ag 4 years of age only weighs 27 1/2 pounds. Is there a chart that goes to 4 years? If I look at the premature chart he doesn't look so bad but still I wou...

INCONSISTENT INFANT WEIGHT GAIN My son is two months old. He gained almost three pounds in the first month, but only 1.5 pounds in the second month. Now he eats about 20-24 ounces of formula a day. Is he eating too little? How can I increase his food intak...

TODDLER WAKING UP AT NIGHT My 15-month old son has recently started waking up at midnight crying. We let him cry for a couple minutes but it distinctly sounds "scared" and when I go to him he clings to me. I can calm down his sobbing pretty easily but then...

NANNY and MOTHER . Our Baby is 8 weeks old and my wife has returned to work. We have a Nanny at home and my wife is concerned that the baby "won't know who she is anymore" and will think of the Nanny as his mother and my wife as a stranger. Any Advice? ...

STARTED USING PACIFIER AT 14 MONTHS. At 14-months my daughter suddenly started using a pacifier -- all the time! I've heard this is bad for the teeth, verbal development, etc. She has almost a full set of teeth and was very verbal before the pacifier. She ...

At what age can children be left alone at home?...

How many times should I feed my 5 month old baby food each day? Should it be mixed with cereal or formula? Should I mix her formula with cereal at bottlefeedings? Should she still take a bottle and how often a day? ...

My son weighed 6 pounds 10 ounces at birth, 9 pounds 5 ounces at his one-month check-up and 10 pounds 13 ounces at his two-month check-up. His growth seems to be slowing down even more in the third month, even though he is taking the right amount of for...

My 20 month old daughter has always been a great sleeper. Over the past month or so, however, she has been waking during the night and screaming uncontrollably. As soon as we go to her and pick her up, she is fine. When we try to put her back in her crib, ...

At what age can you quit sterilizing bottles for an infant? ...

SEPARATION ANXIETY My 6 month old son has been content to play by himself up until about 2 weeks ago. I can hardly take 3 steps away from him and he starts crying hard. I have tried letting him cry for a while but he ends up crying so hard that he breaks i...

My 2 1/2 year old son is extremely sensitive. He is very shy and sometimes will not even speak to my husband when he first sees him. Sometimes he cries whenever someone touches him, even a baby, and it is obvious that he isn't hurt. What can I do to help h...

My grandson is 28months old and his father is only in his life about 2 times a year by his own choice. Mr grandson does know who his father is whenever he sees him. My grandson does have other male figures in his life and a strong family influence. I just ...

My son is 8 months old and is very large for his age. Am I feeding him too much. He is 29 inches and weights 22-23 points. Many people comment about his size and they say that he "hasn't skipped too many meals." Is he overweight for his age?...

My son has been eating about two ounces of formula per pound per day since birth. However his growth rate seems to be slowing down more and more. He doesn't seem to be able to stay in the same percentile. I understand that he is eating the recommended amou...

My daughter is maturing early (age 7), and the doctor says she will possibly start her menstrual cycle within the next year. I have explained all this to her, but haven't gotten in to how it relates to sex. As a matter of fact, I haven't talked sex at all....

What do you think is the benefit or problems of 20 years difference in a marriage. The husband is 49 and the woman is 25? What problems in parenting do you think will occur and benefit from the age difference? Do you think that there is a big different whe...

I now have custody of my 4 year old grandson which we want to tell him that my son is his natural father and not the dad who is in prison which he loves very much. His step father will be getting out son and there is a chance the natural mother and step...

Our 4 year old daughter has gone from sleeping in her own bed, to coming to our room @ 4:00 am and getting into our bed to continue sleeping. She isn't crying and doesn't appear as if she had a nightmare. After she falls back asleep, we put her back in her...

Sometimes my 3 year old son will not listen to me unless my husband is there to back it up.What can I do to change this?...

Our son turned 4 in August. He was a preemie (24 weeker) and does have some developmental delays. In October we started toilet-training (again) and finally saw success using rewards as motivation. By the middle of November, he was initiating going on his o...

My 8 month old son is a terrible sleeper/napper. At 3 months he sleep through the night. Then at 4 months his sleep habit developed. If I am lucky he will nap 2 times a day for 30 minutes only. However,most of the time he will only take 1 nap in the mornin...