Three generations asked how they have fun. It's pretty clear the agenda of the article and the video but what are your thoughts, , do you feel its just a new norm or do you feel we are losing something as a people? Or more likely something in between?

New moms get advice at every turn, but one place they should be getting it—the doctor’s office—is often absent.

Today, the crimes of Hannah Ocuish would be readily explained, if not outright forgiven. Her childhood incorporated all the clichés and every demographic of the youthful offender: poverty, neglect, ignorance, discrimination. Taken together, they ensured that Hannah would be a naughty little girl indeed.

Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint

Eight men are charged with hundreds of offences against a 13-year-old girl.

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Two Oklahoma boys are in the hospital recuperating from burns after their mother said their day care let them play at a water park without sunscreen.

Parenthood is a difficult phase in the lives of people, specially when the kids are below the age of 10. But if you ask these parents whether parenting is a troublesome task for them, they’d probably say no. Why you ask? Because they’re doing it all WRONG!

This is not a typical blog piece, though nothing about me is typical, so it fits appropriately. I have been hesitant to write anything about my life that is deeply personal, because that requires an incredible willingness on behalf of the writer to be vulnerable and honest. However, I am always up for a challenge....

For decades, researchers and parents have wondered which attributes for kids led to a happy, successful life and which put kids on a path to a darker future. Now, they may be one step closer to figuring out how to set young children on the path to attainment – and it looks a lot like sharing, listening and cooperation.

Lunarbaboon: July 26 2015

This week, all of your friends’ Facebooks exploded over a mini-melee at Marcy’s Diner, a tiny restaurant in Portland, Maine. Accounts differ as to what exactly transpired during what shall henceforth be known as Brunchgazi, but all parties agree: A toddler became unruly in a restaurant during a long wait for pancakes, the parents didn’t remove her...

Kids can get wrapped up in the smallest things. If they are different in any way, it can become something other kids will pick on. Making them feel different or that they stand out in any way can hurt their self-esteem and some kids can’t take any more than they already have.Sarah Ivermee found a solution when her friend’s daughter was uncomfortable with wearing her hearing aid to school.

Stephen Amell posted this photo on 2015-07-24. 165306 likes. 1502 comments. 6885 shares.

As more families resemble my own, more parents are going to have to figure out how to talk to their kids about what it means to be mixed race. Here are a few things I've learned.

Lunarbaboon: July 23 2015

It’s not just that kids are trying to drive their parents nuts by blaring their music—though that may be a bonus. I used it as an escape - my son does not, and he worries about decibels far more than I do! Most interesting read.

Michael Snyder | If the government does not like the way that you are raising your kids, they will come in and grab them at any time without giving any warning whatsoever. 

A NSW mother will face court next month for allegedly posioning her daughter through a drip and giving her tablets that caused medical problems.

Sex educator/children’s author Cory Silverberg writes books for kids about sex so lush, smart, and subversive that adults ought to read them. In his first, a picture book for four-to-six-year-olds called What Makes a Baby, he tackled conception in a radically inclusive way, delivering the biological facts minus the default penis-plus-vagina explanation.