Fear becomes a go-to feminine trait, something girls are expected to feel and express at will. By the time a girl reaches her tweens no one bats an eye when she screams at the sight of an insect. When girls become women, this fear manifests as deference and timid decision making.

It wasn't the "mommy wars" that shuttered the group — it was more general concerns, like race and social-justice issues. In its rise and fall, Longest Shortest Time Mamas was a reminder of how hard it is to find smart, nontoxic parenting communities online, and how crucial it is that those communities exist. By Laura June.

A new book looks inside the minds of introverted kids and teens, with lessons for schools on class participation, groupthink and public speaking.

A cautionary tale! Get outside; send your kids out to play. Myopia rates are skyrocketing, spending too much time inside is to blame.

Parents who reject vaccination are making a rational choice – they prefer to put their children above the public good. By Maggie Koerth-Baker.

A battle over triplets raises difficult questions about the ethics of the surrogacy industry and the meaning of parenthood. By Michelle Goldberg.

The father of a man accused of tossing an alligator through a drive-thru window said his son is a good-hearted guy who was just playing a prank.

The state said a 19-year-old with an intellectual disability wasn’t equipped to look after her baby and whisked the newborn off to another family just after birth—a decision the mother was ready to fight. But how smart do you have to be to raise a child? By Lisa Miller.

Parents struggle with the balance of being a friend versus being a taskmaster. Their job, says Dr. Leonard Sax, is to "keep your child safe" and "give kids choices in some domains but not in others."

Owner says it's "just common social etiquette" to control children.

2016: A Year of Waking Up!EurekAlert: Mindfulness, described as paying attention on purpose and being in the present moment with acceptance, could be an

In some cases, clinicians recommend special diets; in others, they're instigated by parents eager to find anything that may help their child.

You can yell at the screen like you might do during a horror movie, except that instead of saying, “Don’t go in the room!” you scream, “Don’t bother putting creatine in his milk!” The scariest part of Trophy Kids is you can’t watch it too smugly, because the road to becoming a psycho sports parent (or a psycho drama parent, or psycho music parent, or psycho mathlete parent, or…) is one easily traveled.

Controlling parents can result in children becoming mean during their college years.

There are enormous benefits to reading to your child. My son and I started the nightly bedtime story routine when he was…

LaVoy Finicum told OPB his four foster children were removed from his Arizona home due to his involvement in the armed occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. “That was my main source of income,” Finicum said. “My ranch, well, the cows just cover the costs of the ranch. If this means rice and beans for the next few years, so be it. We’re going to stay the course.”

A day care teacher who turned her classroom into what a prosecutor called a "baby fight club" was convicted Wednesday on more than a dozen criminal charges. Witnesses testified that Jordan intentionally tripped children, stepped on their toes, encouraged them to fight each other and sprayed them in the face with a hose.

New research says some "educational" toys for infants actually get in the way of learning.

Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours, and while these societies have had far less consumer goods and what modernity calls “efficiency,” they also have had far less mental illness.

An app that can differentiate between a variety of crying sounds made by babies has been developed by Taiwanese researchers.