If you have a voice controlled Amazon Alexa product in your home, you've no doubt heard those stories of children ordering hundreds of dollars of toys simply by asking Alexa for them. If a household h...
When our kids grow up, it can be hard to face the fact that we can't always be around to help guide their decisions. Once they've reached school age, the chances are they're spending more time out of ...
At this point, we've all seen the funny memes floating around social media about chocolate being safe to eat these days than romaine lettuce. Heck, we even saw one featuring Jack and Kate from Titanic...
If there's one thing that needs to change about motherhood in general, its probably the fact that moms take on so much, experience so many daily struggles and feel the need to hide it. Think about it ...
As parents, we want to make the holidays special for our kids, so we often put a lot of thought into what we can get them as gifts. There's nothing better than seeing the look of joy on their faces on...
The toy market is saturated with new-fangled inventions that claim to be the best way to keep your kids entertained, but according to a study, parents aren't interested. Rather than the newest plastic...
Childhood today is very different from what it was like when we were growing up as kids. For most of us, we had to log on to a dodgy dial-up connection in the hope that we could fill out our MySpace p...
Obesity is a major health crisis facing this country. A 2016 report by the Centers for Disease Control found that nearly 40% of Americans are considered obese, and it affects over 93 million adults. O...
Move over adult coloring books – there is a new product to help improve our mental health. And it’s also an activity that is designed to help you connect with your creative side while decreasing stres...
Even though the flu vaccine is recommended by doctors for all children who are at least 6 months of age, a startling number of parents have admitted they will be skipping the flu shot for their childr...
Getting up in the morning to go to school or work almost always seems like the hardest part of the day. No matter how much sleep we get the night before, staying in bed almost always seems like the mo...
Despite the fact that a vaccine for chickenpox has been widely available to families for over two decades, one school in North Carolina is seeing a rash of cases of the virus thanks to the heavily ant...
This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but there is more and more evidence that suggests children are getting very little physical activity throughout the day. As a matter of fact, there ...
It's almost December, and that means two things. We're that much closer to Christmas, and it's time for a slew of new movies on Netflix. With the kids being home for extended periods of time, and the ...
Parents now have yet another reason to make sure that their kids always go to bed on time. That’s because there’s a new study that suggests more and more children are sleep deprived and that it’s affe...
The day after giving thanks for all we have in this world, we still get suckered into buying and spending because we just don't have enough. That's the definition of irony. Black Friday just goes to s...