Babble

First comes love, then comes marriage, then come the baby carriage? Not neccesarily in that order, if it happens that way at all. But New York's Rockland County has a legislator, Jacques Michel, who apparently thinks we're still back in 1955. He's advocating a measure that would require people...

Seems like there's been some serious crackdowns on leaving kids in the car while running errands. A couple in Carmel are going to court with misdemeanor charges after they left their two-year-old asleep in the car in a supermarket parking lot for about 15 minutes. Concerned people saw the toddler...

Hah! I knew it!! According to this study, published in the British Medical Journal, parenting classes actually don't do a whole lot to improve the behavior of toddlers. Researchers enrolled 300 mothers and their eight-month old babies in the Melbourne area into a parenting class. Unlike earlier studies...

They say, somewhat irreverently but at the same time with more than a grain of truth, that your first child is your "practice kid." Firstborns get a lot of attention and they also get the learning curve. Once you're in the territory of two or three, some things seem relatvely easy and don't...

If, like me, you're old as hell, your dad probably was not even in the room when you were born. Lucky for my brother and I, that early separation certainly didn’t end up setting the tone for our relationship with our father, but I can’t help contrasting that with the birth of my own daughter. My...

I've said it before : divorce sucks. For the kids. And in zillions of cases, it does. But it doesn't have to, not if the parents keep one thing paramount throughout the entire experience and, well, for the rest of their lives actually (because they will always be tied together in a fashion if...