Eat The Rainbow

Better nutrition starts not with cutting out the bad, but with adding in the good. Fill your children’s meals with healthful, high-quality food and you’ll eventually squeeze out the bad stuff.I’m not ...Full Article

A Father's Farewell

Before his life drew to a close, Randy Pausch revealed in an interview and a book excerpt what matters most.A note from the editors of Readers Digest:Early on Friday morning, July 25, 2008, Randy Paus...Full Article

Does Every 15 Minutes Scare Kids “To Death”?

Can you be scared straight into sobriety? If not that, can you be scared into refraining from driving drunk ?Many high schools are experimenting with these questions.One such “scared sober” experiment...Full Article

A Letter to My Son, on Starting Out In Life

Dear Seth,You’re only three years old, and at this point in your life you can’t read, much less understand what I’m going to try to tell you in this letter. But I’ve been thinking a lot about the life...Full Article

How to Teach Your Kids Good Habits

Every parent will commiserate with me, especially parents with a good number of kids (I have six): for awhile now I’ve been trying to teach my kids the habit of putting things back where they belong w...Full Article

Get the Kids Outdoors

Do your kids spend a lot of time in front of the TV or video game system? Are they on the internet a lot? If they are like most kids (in America at least), most of their free time is taken up by the T...Full Article

The Benefits Of Singing To Your Baby

Ive heard that singing to baby is a good thing to do... but the only problem is that I cant sing!I heard that singing helps my child.... Is this True?What sort of music should I sing to my baby?Increa...Full Article

What a Pain! Kids and Growing Pains

If you can read this on your own, you can probably turn on the faucet to brush your teeth. And if you can reach the faucet, its a good bet you can get your own drinking glass from a kitchen cabinet.Th...Full Article

How to be a Great Dad - 12 Awesome Tips

I’m often asked about raising six kids, and being productive and achieving goals and changing habits in the midst of raising so many kids. But here’s the thing: I do all the other stuff, the productiv...Full Article

Magically delicious: Breakfast keeps teens lean

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Teenagers who regularly eat breakfast tend to weigh less, exercise more and eat a more healthful diet than their breakfast-skipping peers, U.S. researchers said on Monday.The st...Full Article

5 Ways To Help Your Children Turn Their Dreams Into Reality

I love working with children. Unlike adults, their dreams have no ceiling. It’s inspiring to listen to their goals and ideas.Children start dreaming at an early age. They think about their future care...Full Article

What Can We Learn From Children?

A lot! Although most of the time they seem like little devils, children are true angels that teach us a lot about how we can better our life. Yes, most of the time they don’t have a clue as to what th...Full Article

Exposed: 3 Myths About Becoming A Parent

It’s the news that is guaranteed to change everything: you’re going to be a parent.It’s funny how extremely different the reaction to this news will be depending on the person hearing it. For some, th...Full Article

Teaching Kids Charity and Clarity with Pre-Christmas Cleaning

Today is “Black Friday”, the busiest shopping day of the year in the US and the official start of the Christmas buying season. If you have kids, that most likely means a new crop of the latest toys an...Full Article

7 Ways to Help Your Child be a Homebody

After a 10 hour road trip this past weekend, my family and I spent the balance of the weekend puttering around the house and enjoying some of the simple things in life. We have come to accept that we ...Full Article

Time to be an Adult... Learn How to Say You're Sorry

 Time to be an Adult... Learn How to Say Youre SorryPosted by: K. Stone on 11/01/2007Does this ever happen to you? You did something wrong. You feel like a schmuck. But you dont know how to fix i...Full Article

Uproar over tax break for "big babies"

ROME (Reuters) - Italys economy minister has sparked uproar by offering big babies a tax break if they let go of their mothers apron strings and left home.More than a third of Italian men over the age...Full Article

For America: Start a Neighborhood Watch

Crime prevention is one of the chief goals of any caring neighborhood. Living in a low-crime neighborhoodmeans your children can ride their bikes down the streetor play hide-and-seek in the yard. It m...Full Article

Safe Car, Safe Driver, Dangerous Roads: Road Confusion

Road Confusion AAA says a massive collection of signs in Somerset, Pennsylvania, is one of the most confusing in the state. On a crisp fall morn...Full Article

Kids and ATVS -- A Dangerous Combination?: Dangerous as Disease

Dangerous as Disease From the time he was just four years old, Kyle Rabe loved riding ATVs, and his parents loved watching him. In an area with ...Full Article