As the seventh baby in California dies from whooping cough since January, the public is being urged to get immunized.

They may be more than worth it but, unfortunately, we’re never going to be able to pay our kindergarten teachers $320,000 per year.

After the suicide of his daughter, a father seeks an apology from her alleged bullies:

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A new study shows that good parenting is good parenting no matter what the sexual orientation as children adopted by gay and lesbian coupes are “thriving“, doing just as well as those raised by heterosexuals.

Children who live in damp, water-damaged or mold infected homes are at a higher risk of developing nasal allergies.

The biggest risks that your kids face this summer: falls, bike accidents and drowning.

Dengue fever? In America?

The real story here is that researchers felt a need to study whether or not methamphetamine use during pregnancy puts the mother and baby at a higher risk of complications.

One way to not deal with bullies – threaten to “pop a Glock” in their mouths:

Imagine a sleepover over with 40,000+ kids – welcome to the Boy Scout Jamboree!

Believe it or not, Christina Appelgate’s pregnancy right after treatment for breast cancer is safe and may actually lower her risk of a recurrence.

Melissa Rycroft Strickland goes from getting dumped on The Bachelor last year to being a newlywed with a baby on the way this year!

A clip from Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore – debuting in theaters today:

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President Obama takes teachers head on, demanding accountability for their performance and standards to measure their effectiveness.

It’s truly a horror scene in France as authorities find the bodies of eight newborn babies in the garden of the mother who suffocated and buried them after delivering each one herself at home.

How to discipline someone else’s child:

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The best cities for working moms – did your town make the cut?

Whooping cough is spreading across the nation and it looks like unvaccinated children are behind the breakdown in “herd immunity”.

An accident from careless baby bottle nipple sterilization that sent an infant to the hospital serves as a cautious reminder.

Just how germ-infected is your pool?

U.S. colleges get a failing grade when it comes to effort to limit student drinking and alcohol on campus.

Those BPA-laced register receipts are showing up at Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Safeway, KFC, McDonald’s and. most likely, a store near you.

Help your child stop sleepwalking:

Promoting her new show about parenting and motherhood, The Talk, Sara Gilbert makes it official, confirming the open secret that she is a lesbian mom.

As far as aunt Kim Kardashian is concerned, watching her sister Kortney’s son is “the best birth control ever!“.

Take a sneak peek at Tiffani Thiessen’s nursery for her newborn son Harper.

Hey Boo Boo, guess who’s back in Jellystone National Park?

A Mother’s Courage takes on autism – in theaters on September 24, 2010:

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She was drunk, high and driving over 80 miles per hour down the wrong side of the highway when she killed her own 2-year old daughter, her three nieces and three other people in a head-on crash… and now her husband is cashing in through a movie deal with HBO.

One unlucky 9-year old boy flying alone out of Chicago’s O’Hare airport ends up stuck in a waiting room for eight hours after staff forget about him.

Another young girl is about to attempt a dangerous solo sail around the world, this time a 14-year old from the Netherlands.

The Diaper Wars:

Why are incidence of serious food allergies in kids rising so dramatically, along with emergency room visits because of them?

Even late preterm babies, born just a few short weeks early, face significant increased health risks compared to their full term peers.

With almost a 1/3 of kids suffering from it. insomnia is not just a problem for grown-ups anymore.

BPA is back in the news, this time being found on cash register receipts.

Wrap you head around this: smoking raises the risk of serious complications for pregnant women who develop preeclampsia but smoking might also actually reduce the risk of developing preeclampsia to begin with.

Think twice before buying food at your next day at the ballpark:

From the That’s a Good Idea File: Mel Gibson requests an independent observer to supervise visits with his baby.

Nostalgia gets an update as the family favorite game Battleship gets adapted for the big screen (along with Monopoly and Candyland).

Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno, and her husband are now the proud parents of their first child, a bouncing baby boy.

Entertainment Weekly visits the set of Parenthood for an inside peak at their second season.

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy is now availablee for the iPad:

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Civil rights groups do not believe that current education reform programs and the “Race to the Top” grant system are fair to minority students.

Going beyond the simple annoyance of crying babies on airplanes, one passenger claims she went partially deaf thanks to the shrill shreik of a zealous child.

Blind parents denied custody of their own baby?

With the only difference between fresh and frozen eggs in IVF donations seeming to be the convenience and potential cost, it might be time to take the “experimental” designation off frozen eggs.

Thanks to a built up resistance to prescribed treatments, it’s harder than ever to get rid of head lice.

It does not seem like a surprise that research shows men suffer emotional distress over miscarriages too but that the experience is harder on the woman and she takes longer to recover.

The next time you need medical treatment, you just might have to put cash on the barrel head first.

Now that kids are hitting the pools and beaches, make sure you do all you can to keep them safe in the water.

What to do when your child is lost:

Add a little mad man running around the house as Mad Men’s Rich Sommer and his wife announce they are expecting their second child, a baby boy.

Christina Applegate shows off her baby bump.

One way to relive boredom on the set – play dress-up with fake blood with your children.

As e-books take over more each day, the digital revolution reaches children’s book publishing.

The Hunger Games Trilogy concludes on August 10th with Mockingjay:

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Contact lenses are the leading cause behind the 70,000 U.S. children that end up in hospital emergency rooms every year due to at-home medical devices.

It’s hard to get any lower than letting a child ingest cocaine and PCP because you let him chew on tin foil tainted with the drugs.

Getting into Manhattan’s kindergartens for “gifted” kids is serious business… but is it fair?

Medical marijuana for children:

Overdoing anything is never any good and now it means over-consumption of diet soft drinks which is being linked to a much higher risk of premature delivery for pregnant women.

Breaking the pacifier addiction is better done sooner than later but finding a tear free way of doing it isn’t easy.

Former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop wants parents to kick their kids out of the house, into the great outdoors, so they can actually play the old fashioned way – outside with other kids.

Summer fun at the playground doesn’t need to include a visit to the emergency room as long as safety rules are followed.

Parent-spouse joins work-life as one more thing that modern couple’s struggle to balance.

Eat This, Not That! for children:

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A camp for every kid, from role-playing wizards to fledgeling firefighters and even nudists.

Demi Lovato fronts a new fashion line for tweens, backed by Disney and available exclusively at Target.

Eight more kids for Sarah Palin, this time as Kate Gosselin brings her brood up to Alaska for a taped-for-reality-TV visit.

Up next for Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva: co-parenting classes?

The Cats & Dogs are back in action on Friday:

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Wanting a life with “normal” kids, a mother does the unthinkable to her two young autistic children.

The whooping cough epidemic currently hitting California, that has already killed six children, is the worst that the state has seen in fifty years… and South Carolina may be next.

Should a pregnancy lead to a mortgage rejection?

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists gives the nod to drink up to pregnant women who enjoy a cup of coffee to start out the day.

More and more parents are getting their babies talking even earlier with… sign language!

More than half of American states have chosen to adopt national education standards for their school systems and even more are set to follow them.

Planning out the right kid-friendly choices before you get off the boat will make the shore excursions on your family cruise that much more fun for everyone.

Warning signs: Watch out for these signs that may mean your child is using drugs.

Last chance for an education savings tax break:

Darryl McDaniels, a founding member of the seminal rap group Run DMC, has taken on the cause of selecting qualified and safe child caregivers.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Bryce Dallas Howard and a few medical experts examine postpartum depression.

We’re guessing that it was never Christina Milian’s dram to have a husband who would file for a divorce nine days before she delivered their baby.

Lego Mindstorms combines fun and education as kids learn to program their own robot.

Summer reading should be fun, not a chore for kids.

Author Rick Riordan explains what excited him about The 39 Clues:

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Reversing the prevailing practice and wisdom, new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists state that natural, vaginal birth is safe for most women who have previously had C-section deliveries.

In a highly anticipated ruling, a judge has found that competitive cheerleading is not a sport.

On the offense against bullies:

A packing checklist for expecting parents prepping their hospital bag (with an eye toward high tech gadgets).

By identifying it’s molecular origin, scientific researchers get another step closer to possibly finding a cure for celiac disease.

The genetic disorder EB (epidermolysis bullosa) leaves children with skin as delicate as butterfly wings.

From cough syrup to laxatives, the malicious use of medication on kids is also a form of child abuse.

Amputee children get their own summer camp:

Christina Applegate is about to fulfill her destiny to be married with children with both a marriage and a baby on the way.

Grandpa Jon Voight makes the most of technology to stay in touch with his daughter and grandkids.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor gives the thumbs up to Kate Gosselin’s use of her kids in her reality show Kate Plus 8, finding no violation of child labor laws.

Ramona and Beezus opens in theaters tomorrow:

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In case you were wondering, those full nude airport x-ray scanners do just as good a job exposing your child as they do when they’re high-tech strip-searching adults.

Black father + black mother = white baby?

Cord blood collection made easy:

Of the roughly 400,000 cases of babies that get HIV/AIDS from their mothers each year, almost all could have been prevented with currently available drugs.

Fertility treatments cost more in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world.

Although over 80% of kids with ADHD are on medication, other approaches, in addition to the meds, seem to help too according to parents.

What’s up with all the reports of bed bug infestations lately?

The Consumer Product Safety Commission hopes to make life less stressful for parents with a stronger emphasis on the safety of children’s products.

Save thou$ands with family financial makeover:

Expecting: Congratulatiosn to Ali Larter and her husband on the impending birth of their first baby!

Expecting presents: Congratulations to Ali Landry’s little girl who just turned three!

Celebrity adulterer motorcycle designer Jesse James scored a custody victory over his porn star old ex-wife by getting permission to take their daughter on his move from California to Texas to stalk be near his new ex-wife Sandra Bullock.

Farts just might be the gas that powers the engine to get boys interested in reading books.

Wondering what children’s books are coming this Fall?

The toys of summer:

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A new study finds a small but unexpected complication of in vitro fertilization – a higher risk of childhood cancer for test tube babies.

After faking terminal cancer for a free trip to Disney World, she’s not likely to be nominated for Teacher of the Year a fourth time.

High teen pregnancy rates prompt a Forever 21 maternity line:

Analyzing speech patterns is proving to be a very effective way at diagnosing autism in young children.

Think twice before feeding these foods to your baby.

Often considered just a gimmick for laughs on sitcoms, sleepwalking is real, effect up to 15 percent of preteen children, and it definitely runs in the family.

How do traumatic current events affect children (and how can parents help them deal with them)?

… and then the day comes when your kid asks for a tattoo.

Post-partum sexy:

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iPad apps come to the rescue versus your child’s boredom during summer road trips.

Kids can have fun drawing while learning comic book basics at the same time with Adventures in Cartooning Activity Book.

A look inside the sometimes wild Gibson bunch.

It may be happy headlines and cover stories now that they’re engaged but Bristol and Levi face a rough road ahead as parents (just like everyone else).

Demi Lovato wants her young fans to shop, shop, shop!
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RECALL: Following the death of a 2-year old, approximately 20,000 Tots in Mind playard tents sold in the U.S. between 2005 and 2010 are being recalled due to a strangulation risk.

Are North Carolina schools actually heading back towards segregation?

Things best left unsaid to your kids:

As knowledge about its potentially lifesaving therapeutic value grows, so does interest in collecting umbilical cord blood (although up to 99% of it gets thrown away, at least for now).

With at least eight children in the city dead this year alone, Milwaukee takes an eye opening offensive against dangerous parent-child co-sleeping.

For some kids with very high cholesterol, the problem might lessen or even go away on its own with age.

Double trouble in a good way for a woman born with two uteruses – she’s got two babies on the way, one in each, with two different due dates.

An 8-year old girl puts her charitable spirit together with some entrepreneurial know-how in order to turn lemonade into almost 1,000 boxes of Crayola Crayons for sick children.

Do you really want to deal with your kids on caffeine?

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The author of Look Better Naked, Michele Promaulayko, doesn’t forget moms when it comes to tips for staying in-shape.

Penelope Cruz might want to have a talk with her new sister-in-law about privacy and discretion.

Botox and a face lift for a teenage guest star on Glee, really?

The regular cast of Parenthood grows by two with the promotions of mother-son duo Jasmine and Jabbar.

An 11-year old in The Lion King is seeking a bone marrow donor:

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