If you haven't had a good night's sleep since your baby was born, you're not alone. Sleepless nights are a rite of passage for most new parents. But don't despair. You can help your baby sleep all night. Honestly!
Late last night, my wife and I had to really think about this one. Should we put our baby to sleep on her back or stomach? For whatever reason, our 6 week old daughter just couldn't get to sleep last night. We went through the list of possible reasons (hunger, gas, overstimulation, etc.) and there just didn't seem to be a reason.
Planned Parenthood Pushes Intensive Sex Education for Kids as Young as 10, A new report by the International Planned Parenthood Federation is advocating that children as young as 10 be given extensive sex education, including an awareness of sex's pleasures.
These days, cupid’s arrow is hitting a lot sooner than parents may think—or are even prepared for. Here’s a quick guide to living through—and surviving—your child’s first romantic encounters.
You want to teach your children good sportsmanship but you also want to build their self-confidence. So, when you are playing games with them, should you let them win sometimes?
Making mistakes is part of being a parent, and discipline is an area where we slip up constantly. It's one of our most daunting tasks, and to do it well we have to make clear, sensible, big-picture decisions at exactly the same moment when we are angry, frustrated, or embarrassed. And that's just as hard as it sounds.
Babies who died from sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, show lower amounts of the brain chemical serotonin, says a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Your baby is teething when his or her first set of teeth, called primary teeth, break through the gums. See a picture of the primary teeth. Teething usually begins around 6 months of age. But it is normal for teething to start at any time between 3 months and 12 months of age. By the time your child is about 3 years old, he or she will have all 20 primary teeth.
Over the years of putting our own children to sleep and keeping them asleep, and counseling thousands of other moms and dads on various styles of nighttime parenting, here are some time-tested, proven attitudes and techniques. Most of these are applicable to infants and toddlers of all ages.
