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It’s always fun to see different perspectives on parenting and families. In this case, BusinessWeek decided to publish an article entitled:
Is Raising Kids a Fool’s Game?

Parenting is fulfilling, but the financial burden can be overwhelming—and then there’s the crimp it puts in your leisure time.
Well fellow parenting fools, is being a parent making […]

Many parents (especially Dad’s) secret nightmare is seeing their daughter grow up from a little girl to a young woman. A girl’s pubescent years introduce a new era of emotions, physical change and health issues. Some new information may provide you with a means to delay the enevitable just a little longer.
A new study […]

I recently sat in on some individual and group feedback sessions with 12 teenagers - 7 girls and 5 boys ages 13-16. The purpose of the sessions, conducted by the Better Parenting University team, was to gain additional insight into the current views and opinions of teens on a wide range of issues including:

Internet Use
Peer […]

We are always sorting through the most recent research studies to bring parents the latest information on parenting. Sometimes, the results are ground breaking, other times, they are just throwing money at the obvious. Drinking while pregnant simply isn’t a good thing.
A study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry journal, conducted by Dr Brian […]

Ok. I wrote the headline and I live in California. No, we don’t go to the beach everyday but Californian parents must be too busy doing something,  as only 44.6 percent of Californian children between birth and the age of 5 are read to every day by a parent. The national average is 47.8 percent. […]

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