Are too many parents distracted by mobile devices when they should be watching their kids? A recent rise in injuries, reversing the longstanding trend, has doctors worried that the answer is yes. One sunny July afternoon in a San Francisco park, tech ..

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Child development experts around the world are alarmed at the reduction in free play allowed children at home, school, and in the community.   Simultaneously, schools are pressured to provide more physical exercise within the school d..

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Wake up and smell the silicon: Between smartphones, tablets, apps, portable media players, computers and connected video game systems, technology has permanently and irrevocably invaded kids' lives. Happily for today's family, it can be an immensely ..

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From clearing their browser history to creating private email addresses, teens are increasingly leveraging their tech-savvy skills to hide their online activities from their parents, a new survey found. More than 70 percent of teens surveyed said the..

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Depressed kids may become targets for bullies, a new study finds. Children who are ostracized by their peers and bullied often become depressed, but new research suggests that the relationship may work the other way around as well: children’s d..

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As a parent, one thing you expect will be a part of your life for the next decade or two, are toys, lots and lots of toys.  But what isn’t always as apparent is what toys to buy for your child. Which ones are just all hype, and which on..

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Sending your child on a flight alone can be overwhelming for a parent — from packing the right things to making sure the kids are fed. Adding to the confusion, not all airlines follow the same rules, or charge the same fees for children flying s..

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TUESDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- As the school year wraps up, many kids will replace class time with cyber time -- a trend leading one researcher to caution parents to watch out for online hazards such as "sexting" and cyberbullying. ..

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In 2002, Elizabeth Gershoff published the first-ever meta-analysis of research (PDF) on the effects of corporal punishment on children. Now an associate professor in the School of Human Ecology, Gershoff continues to delve into the impact of spanking ..

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Cyberbullying is back in the news, most recently because of a so-called "smut list" published online that targeted 100 teenage girls, some as young as 14, for being promiscuous. So Healthland asked two bullying experts — Elizabeth Engla..

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  Why I’m Proud to Let my Seven-Year-Old Girl Walk a Mile to School on her Own Written by: Anne Atkins This morning, as usual, I waved my seven-year-old daughter Rosalie off to school. Not from inside the school gates, not even from the ca..

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If you knew your teenager was being attacked on Facebook, would you log on and pretend to be them? Lucy Cavendish reports . Just recently, over dinner, a friend-of-a-friend told me that he knew a mother who was policing her 13-year-old child’..

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(CNN) -- Here's what Katie Roche expected when she went into the hospital for spine surgery: two titanium rods, a bone graft, 17 screws in her vertebrae, eight hours in the operating room, and a week's stay in the hospital to recover. Here's what sh..

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(NaturalNews) Educated Americans with private insurance plans are becoming increasingly less prone to vaccinate their children, according to this year's annual State of Health Care Quality report released by the National Committee for Quality Assu..

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Do your teens text and drive? (For that matter, do YOU?) Watch this PSA and you'll be scared straight. (Warning: Graphic images!)   Don't forget to pass this onto to everyone you know!

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