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10 Habits To Strengthen Your Relationship With Your Children

Heather Davis — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:28:42 +0000

Sometimes relationships between parents and kids can be strained. Here are “10 Habits to Strengthen Your Relationship With Your Children” from Ahaparenting.com. 1. 12 hugs a day. Hug your child first thing in the morning, when you say goodbye, when you’re reunited, at bedtime, and often in between. If your tween or teen rebuffs your [...]

Watch Babies With Potty Mouths — Daily Distraction

Daily Distraction — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:00:40 +0000

[onescreen item="4993957"] They may not even be four years old, but these infants have mastered the four-letter word. For all the old-timers who complain about the coarsening culture, this can’t be the best glimpse into the future of our youth. Barely out of diapers and already dropping F-bombs? Although we must say, the first girl [...]

Eerie Similarities In Shooter, Thoughts On Gun Control

Laura Daniels — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:10:02 +0000

Watching the updates on yesterday’s (12/14/12) tragedy unfold, I can’t help but see some physical similarities between the Newtown, CT shooter and the Aurora, CO shooter (I don’t even want to breathe the names of these selfish madmen). This isn’t a breakthrough in the case by any means, but the physical similarities brought back eerie memories of [...]

186 Pound, Nine Year Old's New Transformation

Rob Banks — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:30:55 +0000

Starting at 186 pounds before a brand new transformation, nine year-old Breanna Broad had a rough time at school. ”Everybody at school would call me names,” Breanna said. “They would call me fatty, they would call me fat head.” Well, this is pretty sweet. Check out a brand new Breanna who lost 66 pounds in a year. “Her [...]

Autistic Boy Denied Lunch at School Because Parents Owed Money — Is It Fair? [POLL]

Mike Adams — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:59:45 +0000

Parents of a 5-year-old autistic boy are upset with their son’s school because, they say, the staff refused to feed him lunch due to an unpaid bill and left him to finish out the remainder of the day hungry. According to Silvia and John Caravella of Matawan, New Jersey, their son John Robert was not [...]

Mom Arrested for Attacking Son's Bully — Is It Fair?

Amy Sciarretto — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:45:02 +0000

If you mess with the bull, you get the horns, but if you mess with a cub, you get the Mama Bear. That's just what happened in Florida this week, when a mother was arrested after attacking the teen who bullied her son.

Does Racism Start When You're a Baby? New Research Says…

Mike Adams — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:41:11 +0000

Some interesting new research has come to light that reveals infants may actually hold the answers to racism in our society, long before they are able to do much more than eat and sleep. Paul Quinn, a psychologist from the University of Delaware recently discovered that babies appear to be able to distinguish race and [...]

Kids May Be Short If Their Mothers Suffer from This Condition

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:29:54 +0000

According to a new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics mothers who suffer depression after pregnancy are more likely to have short kids. To reach this conclusion, researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health used the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort (2001-2007), which tracked kids from birth to age 6. They found [...]

Is a Pole-Dancing Class for Kids a Good Idea? [POLL]

Mike Adams — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:18:18 +0000

Stripper poles have been helping the barely legal afford college for years, but now a Canadian dance school says it plans to start offering minors the opportunity to take pole-dancing classes as early as five years old, walking a controversial line between suitable and inappropriate. However, Kristy Craig of Duncan’s Twisted Grip Dance and Fitness [...]

New Research Reveals Overweight Teens Get Bad Grades

Mike Adams — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:59:19 +0000

There are many dangers that can come from being an overweight or obese teenager, including the risk of developing chronic conditions like heart disease, Type-2 diabetes and stroke.

However, new research indicates that teens suffering from obesity might be at risk for acquiring more than just poor health, but lower school grades as well.

Boy Reunited With His Toy — Grab The Kleenex [VIDEO]

Brian Russel — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:56:26 +0000

As kids, we all have our favorite toy or blanket — the thing we are inseperable from. So imagine if you lost it. It’s happened planty of times. Now imagine if your parents found it and had it sent to you. That’s exactly what happen to a boy and his monkey in Omaha. Mom found [...]

Research Reveals It Takes Only Seven Minutes a Day to Keep Kids in Shape

Mike Adams — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:01:03 +0000

Prying your children away from their video game consoles and getting them to play outside for an hour might be somewhat of a task, but a new study suggests that all you have to do is keep them active for seven minutes to keep them healthy and physically fit.

Mom Does Happy Dance as Kids Head Back to School

Donald Deane — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:53:48 +0000

After a long, hard summer of chasing after kids, there’s no better time for parents than the first day of school. As proof, check out this mom who literally dances in the street as her grumpy kids board a bus to start a new school year. Go mom! While Kool and the Gang’s ‘Celebration’ plays, [...]

How Much Money Do Parents Shell Out in Allowance? — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:30:09 +0000

Lots of adults remember receiving an allowance when they were growing up — but chances are good it wasn’t what today’s kids get. A new poll reveals modern children pocket almost $800 a year from their parents. The survey, conducted by the American Institute of CPAs, found that among the 61 percent of parents who [...]

Why Does Pregnancy Last Nine Months?

Shauna Wright — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:19:19 +0000

Have you ever wondered why the human gestation period is nine months long? A recent study bucked years of traditional wisdom and revealed a surprising answer. Scientists have long theorized that a woman’s length of pregnancy is dictated by pelvis size — in other words, you can’t let a fetus grow too much or it [...]

New Research Suggests Working Parents Are Not Focused On Raising Healthy Kids

Mike Adams — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:00:15 +0000

Many moms today are cursed with having to put in more hours at the office to feed the kids, but a new study suggests that those moms working full-time time jobs to put food on the table are actually not paying close enough attention to their children’s dietary and fitness requirements. The study conducted by [...]

Should Kids Be Fined for Skipping School?

Shauna Wright — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:38:51 +0000

You may already know some lucky kids are being rewarded with things like shoes, iPads and even cars just for showing up to school. But if they don’t, is it fair to fine them — and their parents?

New Research Shows Being an Only Child May Increase Risk of Obesity

Mike Adams — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:09:52 +0000

There certainly are some amazing benefits to being an only child, like not having to share your room, not having to share your friends and not having to share your food.

However, a new study suggests that those kids who grow up without a brother or sister might find more benefit in some good old-fashioned diet and exercise, as researchers have found that kids without siblings are 50 percent more likely to be overweight than children with siblings.

Maine Grandmother Gives Birth to Her Grandson — Find Out How

Marla Rosenthal — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:00:52 +0000

It’s the typical American story. Daughter is becoming a first-time mom, and her mother wants to be supportive and helpful to her child. But that’s where our story takes a 21st century twist. What happens when a wannabe mother has a health condition that makes it dangerous for her to get pregnant? Enter first-time grandma. Literally.

Hero Dad Wears Skirts to Support His Skirt-Wearing Son

Emerald Catron — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:00:12 +0000

This really takes being a supportive dad to a whole new level — a father in Germany started wearing skirts so that his son would feel comfortable doing it to in front of classmates after moving to a new town. Bravo, sir. When they lived in West Berlin Pickert’s son wore skirts frequently, and so [...]