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How smartphones are “destroying” today’s teens

Today's teens have grown up with smartphones, never knew life without the internet, and do almost all their socializing through social media. There's no denying that this generation of teens are different than others. But are smartphones destroying Gen Z?

By | August 8th, 2017|19 Comments

How do you talk to your kids about Trump?

How do you talk to your kids about what happened? I’m not talking about policy, I’m talking about behavior and human decency.

By | November 9th, 2016|304 Comments

Meet “Stuff Curry,” the rising star of Instagram

So, maybe it wasn’t the nicest of comments. Yes, Landon Benton of Quincy, Illinois bears a close resemblance to Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors – especially for someone who is only 10 months old. But after his mom posted some photos on Instagram, some online commenters started calling [...]

By | May 25th, 2016|2 Comments

The Preschool Institution: Hate It or Love It, Why Such Extremes?

"Raise your hand if your parents took out a second mortgage to pay for this!" Preschool. The word alone makes many folks shudder. Remember when preschool was just a fun, easy-going prep thing kids were sent to the year before kindergarten, as a sort of bridge to help [...]

By | February 5th, 2016|2 Comments

The Breast Opinion: Public Breastfeeding

"Mammal (n): any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young." For some reason, something that is as natural and essential as can [...]

By | January 15th, 2016|24 Comments

Is your child getting enough sleep? Probably not.

A chart of sleep times is causing a lot of discussion among parents of youngsters. Check to see if your child is making the grade when it comes to sleep.

By | January 15th, 2016|2 Comments

New App Claims To Decipher Your Baby’s Cry For You

There's an app for that! In this NBC Bay Area news clip, a new app is introduced that claims to be able to decipher the mysterious cries of your baby. Based on the studies of 200,000 crying babies, the app is able to tell you whether your baby [...]

By | January 7th, 2016|0 Comments

Single moms get the worst sleep of all

According to a study released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, single parents of kids under the age of 18 get the worst night’s sleep out of everyone. Topping that list at a whopping 44% are single moms. Making this study even more interesting is that among married parents, dads are the ones who get less sleep than moms do. Looking back to my single mom days, I can’t say that this study surprises me.

By | January 6th, 2016|0 Comments

Closing gates at low-cost colleges

Scrolling through my Facebook feed last night I stumbled on a story about a couple that was up to their eyebrows in debt for their son’s college education. We’ve all read these before. They were in so deep retirement was only a dream. Their son, with a communications degree, worked [...]

By | December 3rd, 2015|5 Comments

Light A Fire: Raising Kids In A Scary World Isn’t Easy

How can parents talk to kids about the scary world we live in without raising them in fear? Writer Stephanie Ansley takes on that question...

By | December 1st, 2015|3 Comments