Spring

Helping Teens Through the Snares of Peer Pressure

The inspirational posters make raising independent children sound so easy: Just give them a healthy dose of both "roots" and "wings." But striking the right balance is a challenge for parents, especially with adolescent children... [more]

Fetal Care Center Extends Vital Services to Midwestern Families

For more than 120 years, the medical experts of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have specialized in the smallest patients, helping them survive and thrive. Now, with the new Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati, the experts are expanding the help they give to the tiniest patients, the unborn... more]

Fiber Fulfills a Range of Benefits

Fresh fruit and vegetables – diligent parents plan menus around them and point grazing children toward them. But beyond their rich harvest of vitamins and minerals, there's another, often overlooked bonus tucked inside the produce aisle: Fresh fruits and vegetables are dynamite fiber-delivery systems...[more]

Reducing the Risk of Burns

For most parents, their goal is to create the coziest, warmest home they can. But sometimes, those little, literal touches of warmth can become hazards themselves. A mug of steaming cocoa can tip and scald. Bath water can burn. Cleaning products can sear... [more]

Creating Shared Memories for Your Blended Family: One Family's Experience

For Jean and Cliff Robson, their traditions have played an important role in bringing their families closer together and in helping both of their individual families become one. Jean and Cliff met through their church and children's school in 1992. Both were divorced, single parents with second-grade girls at St. Mary's grade school... [more]

Blending Families

For many people, notions of blended families come from such TV sitcoms as The Brady Bunch or from fairy tales, such as Cinderella's trials with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. Yet when members of two existing families join to form a new one, reality lies somewhere in between... [more]

How do I deal with an older sibling when the younger one is better at sports?

This question applies in more areas than sports. You can replace "sports" with school, music, dancing, almost any activity. It is a real concern to an older child when the younger one is better at something. Self-esteem is a major issue... [more]

Simple Safety Precautions for Operating Lawn Mowers

While the emergence of spring's greenery is a welcome sign of warmer weather, it may suddenly seem as if the grass is in constant need of mowing. Before you haul out the mower, remember that it is a powerful tool with sharp blades... [more]