A new national survey shows a huge disconnect between parent perceptions and student performance.

Move comes just months after Brighton school sends out gender survey

Janet Jackson might soon become the new symbol of the rise of the 50-year-old mom. The 49-year-old singer/songwriter, who turns 50 next month, announced to fans in a video on Twitter on Wednesday that she would be delaying the second leg of her "Unbreakable" world tour because she and her husband are focused on family planning. "I thought it was important that you be the first to know. My husband and I are planning our family, so I'm going to have to delay the tour," she said with a smile.

Nearly three years ago, the Magazine reported on the Finnish baby box - a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys the state gives to expectant mothers. The story went viral and was read by 10 million people in 18 months. Now the box idea itself is spreading around the world. It's a tradition that dates back to the 1930s. Every new mother, regardless of background or income, gets a baby box from the government.

Using Hitler, Gaddafi and Kim Jong-il teddy bears, the Norwegian Heart and Lung Association wants parents to be aware of the dangers in their kids' bedrooms.

About 3/4 of kids in the U.K. are spending less than an hour outside on an average day. Kids in the United Kingdom are spending less time outside than prisoners, according to a new study. A survey of 2,000 parents in United Kingdom finds that nearly three quarters of children are spending less than one hour outside every day, the Guardian reports. About 20% are not going outside at all on a regular basis. U.N. guidelines mandate that...

If we judge the Lets Move campaign on its stated mission to "solve the problem of obesity within a generation" then the campaign has been a tremendous failure. 

New research finds that many recent epidemics happened in areas where people are unvaccinated by choice. By Laura June.

To break the cycle of the mealtime stress fest, parents must face some bitter truths. By Alyssa Giacobbe. (Feb. 24)

“There’s nothing in the world that will bring him back,” David Stephan said of his late son, Ezekiel. “What good could possibly come out of this?” By Michael E. Miller.

If your child gets sick, hope for something mechanical. Failing that, wish for something commonplace. This is a mother's quest to find her daughter a diagnosis. By Alison Motluk.

Feb. 15 marks exactly six months since Alison Azer last saw her four children, allegedly abducted by their father, Kurdish-Canadian doctor Saren Azer and taken to Iraq. Alison Azer, who lives in the Comox Valley, travelled twice to Iraq in the past five months in hopes of finding her children — aged 11, 9, 7 and 3 — but both trips were in vain. After returning from her latest trip, she spoke to On The Coast guest host Michelle...

It was an astounding plea for sanity from the family court bench — an outspoken Hamilton judge blasted warring parents for squandering $500,000 on their bitter child custody battle. “How did this happen?” asked exasperated Ontario Superior Court Justice Alex Pazaratz. “How does this keep happening? What will it take to convince angry parents that nasty and aggressive litigation never turns out well?”

Many children are needlessly prescribed drugs to combat ADHD when they are just immature, a study suggests

“There is no evidence that any amount of homework improves the academic performance of elementary students.” This statement, by homework research guru Harris Cooper, of Duke University, is startling to hear, no matter which side of the homework debate you’re on. Can it be true that the hours of lost playtime, power struggles and tears are all for naught? That millions of families go through a nightly ritual that doesn’t help? Homework is such an accepted practice...

In a 2016 presidential election filled with insults, sexual innuendo and bizarre behaviour, how do you explain politics to children?

All the reasons people might think monogamy is better (and not just for them, but for everyone), turn out not to be true, or lack evidence. And like Christian apologetics, monogamy apologetics will leave out data regarding the benefits of alternatives, in order to oversell the benefit of compliance with antiquated norms.

What do you do with a problem like unhealthy foods? After all, junk food is easily available, it’s cheap, and it’s advertised harder than other kinds of foods. It’s also (usually) delicious. How can you fight that? Two options are gaining support. In the U.K., the public supports a ban on junk food advertising to children. Specifically, a ban on TV advertising before the 9 p.m. "watershed," after which U.K. television assumes kids are tucked up...

An increasing number of parents are hiring sniffer dog services to search their teen children's rooms for concealed drugs.