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- How to give your kids presence, not presents.
- December is about connection, not consumption
- Did you make your Joy list yet?
- Make Your Joy List Today
- Bless Yourself and Those Around You with More Love
- Check the Healthy Toys Database before you buy
- One in ten families doesn't have money for food
- Motrin Ad Ridicules Babywearing
- EFT: Your secret weapon against stress
- Close Families Raise More Independent Adults
- Change Your Happiness Set-Point: Be Happy for No Reason
- Processing the Everyday Grief of Parenting
- Helping Children Handle Grief
- Why should parents care about public policy?
- Do you know how much each child costs you?
- Women against Children: False Choice
- Babies and Kids need us, but we need to work
- Childraising in a Toxic Culture
- If We're All Working, Who's Raising the Kids?
- Where attachment parenting too often goes wrong
- Why it's so hard for parents these days
- Our kids are the canaries in this coal mine
- Celebrate Family Day on Monday, September 22, 2008!
- Your Child's Brain While Tantrumming
- Why do we need paid family leave?
- In the richest country in the world, how can we let our children grow up in poverty?
- Parents' Bill of Rights
- On being the parent of a 13 year old girl
- Perfect Toddler or Preschooler Dinner
- Could food additives be causing your child's behavior problems and hyperactivity?
- Is melatonin safe for kids?
- Make the Most of Summer with Your Kids
- Does your child's teether have phthlates?
- House Passes Paid Parental Leave Bill
- Is it normal teen behavior or a warning sign?
- Baby Borrowers
- A Toddler Who Fixes His Own Snacks
- Does your teen get enough sleep?
- Have you switched to glass baby bottles yet?
- Breast milk has stem cells- genetic guidance for life!
- Attention Pregnant & Nursing Mothers
- Creative Tantrum Solving
- Recess is vanishing
- Beware Teen Residential Treatment Programs
- Dealing with Preteen Mood Swings
- Is Miley Cyrus any different than our daughters?
- Celebrating Planet Earth with Your Kids
- Government declares plastic baby bottles unsafe
- What every woman should know
- A good feeling in my heart
- Killer's rampage spurred by attachment disorder
- Valentines Day
- Mothers Ought To Have Equal Rights
- 100 Ideas for Creating a More Peaceful World
- Do You Have a Daughter? Just Yell Fire.
- School success really does start at home
- Six Month Olds Know the Score
- Protecting Kids from Violent TV Programming
- Birth Order Debunked
- Immigration Enforcement: Breastfeeding is the least of it
- TV Viewing Linked to Hypertension in Kids
- Talk with Your Baby at Six Months
- Raise Your Child's IQ: Breastfeed & Read!
- Cutting back on TV improves academic performance
- Are you Teaching your Child Healthy Messages about Eating and Body Image?
- World Experts Demand End to Child Drugging in USA
- Co-Sleeping: Waking to Nurse
- TV May Turn Four Year Olds Into Bullies
- Do First Born Kids Have HIgher IQs?
- Heavy TV use linked to lower academic achievement
- Halloween Muse
- Giving Toddlers Structure: Activity Clocks
- Does Your Baby Watch TV?
- Protecting Your Child from Sexual Abuse
- Outraged Parents Demand Government Action to Protect Children
- Baby DVDs impair vocabulary acquisition
- How often do you speak with your kids about drug and alcohol use?
- Watching TV linked to ADD in adolescence
- TV linked to early onset of puberty, hormone disruption, attention disorders, cancer, autism and alzheimer's
- Depression and Suicide in Teens
- Do criticism and judgments change anyone?
- MP3 & IPOD Hearing Loss
- The Business of Being Born
- How to Increase your oxytocin levels
- Oxytocin levels predict mother-child bond
- The Mysteries
- Claire Verity and Bringing Up Baby
- You Can Help Save Our Children's Healthcare
- First Year At College: Anxious, Depressed & Self-Medicating
- Sacred Birth Workshop
- School Shooting: The Nine Mistakes that Could Have Prevented This One
- Grinch Comes Early: President Vetoes Kids' Health Bill
- 10 Things to Consider BEFORE Having Children
- Don’t take your preschooler to just any PG animated film.
- America is already a Kid Nation
- Discipline means "To Teach"
- The Mozart Effect
- Why Kids Test Us -- and How We Can Pass The Test
- Quality Time, Anytime
- In Honor of Labor Day
- Confronting Consumerism
- The impact of gender inequality on kids
- Why we need family friendly government policies
- Why we need the work world to become more family friendly
- Please read this before you have children!
- Yes, you do need to wear a bike helmet every time.
- Are You Your Child's North Star?
- Is Tylenol safe? What every parent needs to know.
- Separations from Babies
- Moms Protest Easy Gun Access in Wake of VA Tech Shootings
- The Feminine Mistake
- Why children should be everyone's priority
- Happy Mothers Day!
- Americans most depressed. Gee, I wonder why?
- International Embarrassment: US has second-worst conditions for raising children... and, Surprise, the child suicide rate is up.
- Does a demanding job hurt our relationships with our kids?
- Is all this energy worth it?
- Is Your Teen Ready for Sex?
- Is Your Child Sleep Deprived?
- Good News
- New York's new anti-poverty program for families
- The Solution: Equal Dads and Family Friendly Workplaces!
- Impudent little brat
- Teaching our Children Torture: 24 on Fox
- Caesarean Sections
- Helping Kids Grieve
- Building Family Intimacy
- What we know about Kids, TV, and Computer games
- What makes a great mother? Clue: It’s not about the cupcakes.
- Alternatives to Punishment
- Operating Instructions for Happiness
- The Power of Touch
- What is Connection Parenting?
- What We Can Learn From Elephants
- The secret of happy parenting
- Plugging the Brain Drain
- The Importance of Fathers
- Bullying
- Motherhood Manifesto: Why Society Should Support Parents and Children
- Paid Maternal Leave
- 14,000,000 Latchkey Kids
- "I just want him to be happy"
- How Britain Reduced Child Poverty
- The Glass Ceiling
- The Parenting Gap
- Why Parents Are Not to Blame
- Investing In Children
- Women in Leadership
- Attachment Parenting
- Helping Teenage Moms become Responsible, Nurturing Parents
- Parental Leadership
- Child Centered?
- Mothers Opting Out of the Work World?
- Is Childcare Bad for Kids? Let's tell the truth.
- Parental Responsibility
- Our children pay a high price for the way we live.
- Mothers "Stetched to the Limit": What a surprise!
- The Family Dinner