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How to Ease the Pain of Your Baby's Excess Flatulence

Expert-recommended ways parents can relieve their baby's discomfort. We all have gas. Though it may be embarrassing for grown-ups and sometimes problematic, the awkward gastrointestinal certainty ...

Court Decrees Internet Fundamental and a Utility

An appeals court panel affirmed the Federal Communications Commission’s rules about net neutrality, clearing the way for stricter oversight of broadband providers... High-speed internet service ca...

NO TV for 30 Days! What Happened?

Watching a couple hours of TV a day can have major effects on your brain. So what would happen if you quit cold turkey? The average adult watches 2.8 hours per day of television, according to the ...

Pediatricians May Choose to Deny Treatment to Patients Who Don't Vaccinate

At the American Academy of Pediatricians conference, doctors discussed a resolution allowing them to deny treatment to patients who refuse to vaccinate.

What a Little Attention Can Do: My Momover Experiment, Week 3

One year after her daughter is born, a New York City mom decides to seriously step up her hair and makeup game with a one-month salon package.

How Involved Dads Boost Their Baby's Brain Development

We all know that a baby needs a loving mother to maximize the chances of growing up to be a happy and successful adult. But how important is a dad?

Why Does Reading Make Us Happier?

Regular readers sleep better, have lower stress levels, higher self-esteem, and lower rates of depression than non-readers.

Sugar: What Kind and How Much?

High-fructose corn syrup and regular sugar are so similar that most experts say their effects on the body are essentially the same.

Don’t Let Your Family’s Healthy Eating Take a Vacation This Summer

With summer vacation comes more ice cream, fried food, and soft drinks. Here are some helpful tips to keep your family eating healthily all summer long.

Using a Healthy Lifestyle to Treat Kids with ADHD

A Canadian study found that after a 10-week physical training program, children with ADHD improved their muscular capacity and motor skills.

Girls Who Experience Puberty Earlier at Higher Risk for Depression

What we found was the girls who had earlier breast development had a higher risk of depressive symptoms, or more depressive symptoms.

For Many Families, Summer is a Difficult Financial Hardship

Summer is the moment that really epitomizes the child care crisis.

How to Buy a Family Car on Craigslist

With a little legwork, Craigslist can be a great place to find your family car.

You'll Marry the Wrong Person

IT’S one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same: We marry the wrong person. Partly, it’s because we have a bewilderi...

June 2016 Parenting Horoscopes

Enjoy this refreshing and effervescent mixed cocktail of helpfulness, humor, and astrology-lite. May your children be tolerable and your stars aligned.

Aquarius June 2016 Horoscope

Aquarius (January 20 - February 19): This is the dawning of the age, Aquarius. Right now. Did you set your alarm? Did you wake up? Good. Look around. Everything you ever wanted is right here. It’s...

Capricorn June 2016 Horoscope

Capricorn (December 21 - January 20): If the zodiac was PBS for Kids, you’d be Bob the Builder. Building things from the ground up is second nature for you. Restore, renew, remodel. You can do all...

Pisces June 2016 Horoscope

Pisces (February 19 - March 20): Your intuition is razor sharp. Your ability to sense — and adapt to — a changing environment is part survival skill, part goddess-given gift. Of course you’re happ...

Sagittarius June 2016 Horoscope

Sagittarius (November 21 - December 21): You know what you’re good at? Choosing friends. You have the nicest friends. Funny, smart, skillful, honest. Your friends are good people and they love to ...

Scorpio June 2016 Horoscope

Scorpio (October 22 - November 21): Why you gotta smell so good and look so fine all the time, Scorpio? Those bright eyes, that air of mystery, the attention to detail. If the zodiac was a bar, yo...

Libra June 2016 Horoscope

Libra (September 22 - October 22): If the zodiac was The Love Boat, you’d be the cruise director, Julie McCoy. You know what people need, when they need it, and how to help them get it. You’re exc...

Cancer June 2016 Horoscope

Cancer (June 20 - July 22): You love home so much you’d think Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros wrote their biggest hit about this astrological sign. Of course, the point of that song is that...

Leo June 2016 Horoscope

Leo (July 22 - August 22): If a combination craft store / library / sex toy shop had any market viability, you could thrive in that business. Art, ideas, performance, romance — these are a few of ...

Virgo June 2016 Horoscope

Virgo (August 22 - September 22): Virgo, if the zodiac was a cartoon, you’d be Curious George. You’re interested in everything, and you’ll wander off following the things you want to understand, an...