When little ones are running around outside, playing in the pool and swinging at the park, they’re active under hot conditions. What are ... Read More
Parenting
Is This Flu Season More Dangerous?
The flu has been spreading fiercely across the United States, with more than half of states reporting widespread activity. The season has ... Read More
Top 5 Tips For Finding A Good Babysitter
Attention parents! Having trouble finding a great babysitter to watch your child? Finding a babysitter is important and can be easier than ... Read More
4 Steps To A Healthier Family
Media portrayals of families tend to show them either highly dysfunctional or unrealistically perfect. Of course, neither is generally ... Read More
5 Things You Don’t Know About Calories
Calories have a bad reputation when it comes to weight loss. But, calories are actually an important source of fuel that your body can't ... Read More
Don’t Feed Your Kid That!
With the kids home from school for at least a few more weeks, we know you were probably lax with their general healthy eating rules. But ... Read More
Oh Yes She Did! Single Moms Raising Boys To Be Men
A couple of months ago, I wrote an article entitled, If I Had A Daughter, Would I Teach Her To Think Like A Man? in response to the recent ... Read More
Permissive Parenting: Harmful Or Harmless?
Recent news of Willow Smith getting her tongue pierced has the pop culture buzzing about the appropriateness of particular actions in ... Read More
Mental Health Care Disparities Persist For Black Children
Disparities in the use of mental health services, including outpatient care and psychotropic drug prescriptions, persist for black and ... Read More
Study: Moderate Drinking During Pregnancy May Be Okay
One of the cardinal rules for expectant moms: don't drink during pregnancy. But a new study out of Denmark is throwing that maxim into ... Read More
ADHD Drugs Being Prescribed More, Antibiotics Less
The number of children who received prescriptions for drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increased over an ... Read More
The Elephant In The Room: Why Black Folks Need to Talk About Sex Abuse
It doesn't matter if it was the Jerry Sandusky case for child abuse cases or a neighbor molesting a family member, it is critical that ... Read More