Alan Kazdin at Slate has one more reason not to hit your kids: it may be (sort of) addictive. That is, just as the…
A rich woman writes obnoxious nanny want-ad, becomes an internet phenomenon, a ton of people people apply for the…
This just in from "no shit studies" central: According to research collected from studies about bullies in six…
Over on Strollerderby, there's a post called "14 Lies Parents Need to Stop Telling Their Kids." You're not supposed…

Yesterday's post equating Barack Obama embarrassing his daughter Malia with his firm handshakes of her ten-year-old…
When I was sixteen, my mom confessed to me she'd had PREMARITAL SEX. Why I had not assumed she'd had premarital sex…
Are you ready for a moment of Freud? We're going to talk about your mother. You love her, obviously. But sometimes…
Behold Baby Couture, the snotty new magazine with the slogan, "We put the 'coo' in couture." Poor, poor rich…
"Why Men Should NEVER Be At The Birth Of Their Child" blares the headline in today's Daily Mail. But if you assume…
A national study co-sponsored by the CDC shows that 1 in 50 newborns is a victim of non-fatal abuse or neglect. David Finkelhor, the director of the Crimes against Children Research Center, tells the AP that the statistics suggest that families without health insurance are not getting satisfactory care for their… Read more
"Women who regret having children are the silent minority," writes Lucy Beresford in the Times of London. Beresford…
In a story in today's Washington Post, Marcia Katz writes about what it's like to be the parent of one child.…
Today the WSJ brings us the real reason Clinton campaign chair Patti Solis Doyle stepped down. "She recently returned home after two months on the road to find a family accustomed to her absence... When her 6-year-old son cried out one night recently, he rebuffed his mom, saying, 'I want Daddy.' Ms. Solis Doyle flew… Read more
Parents want kids who don't lie. They want kids who don't lie, they say, more than kids with good judgment,…
We all do stuff our moms and dads just don't understand. (Princess Diana's mother called her a whore for "messing…
Once you decide to have a child, you're faced with another incredibly important decision: What to call the thing.…
Steve Almond and Jane Roper are two bloggers for the parenting website Babble who recently decided, "in the spirit…
Every Midweek Bonnie Fuller writes a column for the Huffington Post about ha ha ha, celebrities are such…
So it's not even 5 pm yet and it's almost completely dark outside and apparently ass-chappingly cold (so I hear!…