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Invasive Parenting
Are you an invasive parent...do you try to control your kids' lives too much?
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Teens
How can parents and teenagers communicate better?
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Media
All media and no play makes our children dull.
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Screen Time
The Surgeon General warns too much screen time is bad for your kids.
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Safe House
An author believes the healthy American household is under attack. Christopher Gavigan is the CEO of the non-profit foundation Healthy Child, Healthy World.
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Risky Behavior
New research shows picking and choosing your child's activities could help reduce the chance that they will get involved in "risky behavior."
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Medicine
Medicine cabinets across America are overflowing. But what effect can all these pills have on your children?
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Nutrition
A new study has some new ways of improving nutrition for kids.
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Backpacks
Can those backpacks your kids wear each day to school affect their health?
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William Sears
Your kids are what they eat!
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
A local nonprofit agency praised for its publications on women's health is tackling a new topic.
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Vocabulary
How can you improve your kids' vocabulary? A local educator says...talk to them!
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Aquarium
A local institution, which is a favorite with parents and kids, is making waves around the world.
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Preschool
A new study calls for improvements in national pre-school education. Steven Barnett is Director of the National Institute for Early Education at Rutgers University. He co-authored the 2007 State Preschool Yearbook.
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Rookie Driver
Caution! Rookie Driver ahead! Corinne Fortenbacher is co-founder of RookieDriver.net.
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Girl Scouts
The Girl Scouts are getting a new look. Gone are the familiar green skirts...but the cookies will stay.
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Credit Cards
Credit cards on campus are causing problems for college students.
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Booster Seats
A call for booster seats to improve the safety of young kids in cars. Car crashes are the leading causes of death for children between the age of 4 and 7.
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School Food
Following a recent beef recall, there are concerns about the overall quality of food delivered to schools across America. Chris Waldrop of the Consumer Federation of America believes the USDA has not been doing all it can to assure food safetyin the nation's schools...
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Breakfast
A good breakfast is important for kids to start their day off right, and Framingham has been honored for doing just that.
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Crib Recall
There's another product recall that parents with young kids should know about.
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SUV's
New crash test results are in for SUV's.
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School Bus Safety
Another call for improved school bus safety. Those familiar yellow buses carry millions of kids to and from school every day, but Doctor Alan Ross of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety says there is room for improvement...
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College Donations
2007 was a very good year for American colleges and universities...donations were at record highs. Money given to colleges and universities hit a record of nearly $30-billion-dollars last year...
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Toys R' Us
At least one big toy retailer is raising its safety standards. Toys R' Us says it is doing more to protect children from dangerous toys...halting sales of any products with dangerous chemicals, and setting tighter standards for levels of lead.
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Elmo
You can't buy it yet, but it could be the next big toy parents will have to look everywhere for their kids!
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Child's Strengths
Can you help develop your child's strengths?
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Recalls
There are several products that have been recalled that parents should know about.
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Car Seats
Have you ever struggled to put your child's safety seat in the car? The government has come out with a new rating system for child safety seats to make it easier for parents to make the best choice.
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Cold Medicines
The government has declared over the counter cold medicines to be too risky for tots.
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Helmets
A local neurosurgeon wants kids to wear helmets to protect against possible winter sports injuries.
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All Nighters
Those all-nighters your college age son or daughter pull may not equal better grades.
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Media Effects
How can the media affect kids age 5 and under?
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Kid Depression
Can you tell if your child is depressed or just being moody?
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Reactive or Proactive?
Are you a reactive or proactive parent?
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Colleges
It's that time for many parents...the time when their ready-for-college age kids are filling out those applications, and making visits to campuses.
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Dads
If you're a father, do you have "Dadditude"?
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Raising Kids
It's a challenge every parent faces...how to raise happy, confident kids.
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Obesity
National obesity rates continue to rise.
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Cell Phones
California has become the latest state to pass a law banning some teenagers from using cell phones in cars.
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Peanuts
There's something new in the fight against peanut allergies.
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Deployment Camps
Kids with parents deployed overseas in the military got a helping hand this summer at a series of free camps.
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SAT's
More and more high schoolers are taking SAT's in order to get to college, but average test scores have dipped a bit.
More than a million seniors took the latest S.A.T.
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Recall
Another toy made in China has been recalled.
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Drugs in School
The battle against drugs in schools is apparently getting tougher to fight.
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Passports
Tighter travel rules surrounding passports are creating some big benefits for single parents who've been waiting for child support payments.
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Kindergarten Prep
Do you have a preschooler headed for kindergarten? Then you need to make sure your child knows enough to keep up with the other kindergartners.
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Language Videos
Those language videos for infants may not be all they're cracked up to be.
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Peter Pan
One of your kids' favorite foods is back following a salmonella scare.
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Lead Toys
The "Made in China" label on some toys may be cause for concern for parents. Many toys made in China have been recalled because of high levels of lead in the toys' paint.
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Toddler Talk
How do toddlers learn to talk? Young kids seem to enter the "word spurt" phase early in life...
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