Pregnancies seem to come in waves. No, not waves of nausea from morning sickness, but waves of women who know each other getting pregnant around the same time.

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My best friend has five kids: Two from her first marriage plus two stepsons and a bio-baby from her second. She is also brilliant, successful and ridiculously happy and I have never even given the whole who’s-your-daddy thing a second thought.

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Getting back to work after years of raising children.

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Last week the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a new clinical report, “The Impact of Social Media Use on Children, Adolescents and Families ”, which warns parents that social networking sites can potentially fuel depression in some teenagers. As parents, how seriously do we take these latest findings? Do we act on them? Do we [...]

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Kids are little sponges -- and you never realize how true that is until you hear their sweet little voices repeating something that you blurted out in front of them.

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Fewer than half of US public schools have a full-time nurse on the premises.

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Reality-TV star Kate Gosselin, the now-single mother of eight kids, has had her private life and public antics chronicled in the tabloids. But TODAY's Matt Lauer had to ask first about Kate's MOST shocking escapade: A recent trip to Australia... with her kids.

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Hee-haw! The latest status-symbol accessory for trendy mamas is the Bugaboo Donkey, a tricked-out stroller that costs $1,500. And it's selling out before it even hits the stores in some places.

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Trendy mamas are all abuzz about the latest, end-all, be-all, gotta-have status symbol: Bugaboo's new Donkey stroller. The price tag? A cool $1,500.

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If I were allowed to give one only bit of advice to parents who have young children or children on the verge of becoming teenagers, I would tell them this...choose your battles. There is honestly no better advice than this.

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