It's one thing to tell time, but another to understand the fluid relationship between time passing and getting stuff done. Both my kids struggle with the idea that they have to adjust what they're doing (or the speed at which...

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Here's how Christy's lowering the sugar and raising the fun quotient in this year's Easter egg hunt: This may be brilliant or evil, but being sick of the endless holiday candy train with my kids, I'm going to just get...

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When sharing the link for the baking soda shampoo hack on Twitter and Facebook, I joked about how baking soda should be part of a collection of must-have multitaskers for busy parents: the Parenthacker's Toolkit. A flood of responses came...

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Food Network star Ina Garten, a.k.a. the "Barefoot Contessa," is feeling the burn, but it's not from logging extra miles on a treadmill. Obviously.

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We were emerging from our Spring Break in Disneyland this week. Back to school, back to work, back to reality! The escape was lovely, and as always I'm happy to be back at Parent Hacks. Highlights from last week (plus...

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Dan Dorn won't get his wish after all, but then again neither will his ex-wife... or their three children. A judge finally made a decision in the case of the brain damaged mother whose parents were looking to secure more visitation time for her with the triplets she gave birth to in 2006.

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Two vegan parents in France are currently facing up to 30 years in prison for allegedly causing the death of their 11-month-old daughter through "neglect or food deprivation."

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In newer Disney movies like "The Princess and the Frog," the princesses are less stereotypically girly and are more independent, while Prince Charming has lost some of his manly muscle.

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If you’re one of the 50 to 70 percent of women who have some degree of morning sickness, you can thank those early pregnancy hormones for the fact that you’re barfing (or on the verge of it) seemingly all the time, the thought of eating anything other than a Saltine is unappetizing, and the once-sexy smell of your husband’s aftershave suddenly makes you want to hurl.

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How a drug that last month was $10 per injection, suddenly rose to $1500 for that same injection, then just as suddenly fell to $690?

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