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Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, I lost my way. I lost my dreams, my hopes, my goals, my happiness, my sense of self. It even felt as though I lost my family and my friends. I didn’t want to go out, didn’t want to see any of the people I loved — because I was afraid they would be able to see how bad I felt about myself. I didn’t like myself, and I didn’t have the courage to admit that to myself, much less admit it to my friends. I was living a life of complacency. Checked out. Shut down.
On the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 13, 2006, my husband was taking my daughter to a gymnastics class for the evening. I was not with them, but my infant son was.
The slum kid stars of "Slumdog Millionaire" want a lot of things in life — new houses, a car, trips to London and Paris — but they aren't too interested in school.
Children on widely used psychiatric drugs can quickly gain an alarming amount of weight; many pack on nearly 20 pounds and become obese within just 11 weeks, a study found.
At least one in five U.S. children aged 1 to 11 don't get enough vitamin D and could be at risk for a variety of health problems including weak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests.
Small children and airplane flights: The mere mention of those two concepts in the same sentence is enough to make many parents — and many airline passengers — cringe. It’s common for moms and dads of babies and toddlers to approach flights with extreme humility and trepidation. After all, so many things can go wrong while trapped way up there in the sky with absolutely no escape.
Parents have been told over and over not to let kids watch TV alone. But now a new study shows that advice can backfire: Researchers found that children who watched television with their folks were almost four times as likely to be frightened by scary programs as those who viewed alone.
The surreal drama surrounding Jon and Kate Gosselin and their eight kids became the “biggest celebrity story of the year,” according to “The Unreal Rise of Jon and Kate Gosselin,” on .
A woman with bipolar disorder "forfeited" her right to be a mother when she served her children drugged hot chocolate before setting the house on fire, a judge said Thursday as he sentenced her to six to 20 years in prison.
It seemed as if Jon Gosselin was sending a message that his kids should be protected from cameras when he banned TLC from his home and told Larry King, “it’s not healthy for my kids to be on the show. … it’s detrimental to them.”
Enough already with the whining, moaning, demonstrating and protesting by health care workers. Doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, nurses’ aides, and anyone else who has regular contact with patients ought to be required to get a flu shot or find another line of work.
"Jon and Kate Plus Eight" may still be airing, but the TLC series is all but over. Ironically, the show has finally become what everyone has always wanted and craved: the chronicle of a relationship's meltdown and destruction.
More than half a million U.S. children yearly have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treatment and sometimes hospitalization, new research shows.
The cleaned-up remake is shinier, prettier and watches its language. No one even dances on top of a car...
A half-dozen kids at a community center in a Washington state say they were sickened by gum they accepted from a stranger.
Jermaine Jackson told Britain’s “Live From Studio Five” that Paris, Prince Michael and Blanket find comfort in playing with his kids.
A New York couple face criminal charges after they allegedly photographed their 11-month-old and 5-year-old boys posing with guns.
Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.
Driven by childhood obesity worries or other food anxieties, more parents are turning into food cops, monitoring every morsel their children eat. But forbidding foods can backfire.
No need to worry about frazzled kids cramming lessons and sports into their school year schedules. Turns out, most busy kids are fine. It’s their parents who are on overload.
No. 19 caught Michelle Duggar by surprise. The 42-year-old mom of 18 noticed that she wasn't losing weight — even though she and husband Jim Bob were on Weight Watchers — and her youngest child, 8-month-old Jordyn-Grace, was fussing while nursing. In the past, she found a fussy infant meant a change in breast milk that came with pregnancy.
Michelle Duggar, the 42-year-old Arkansas mom of 18 and a soon-to-be grandmother, is pregnant again.
Celizic: Besides being enormously entertaining, the Little League World Series is about as pure a dose of sports as you’re ever likely to get.
Thirteen-year-old David Rojas didn't tell his mother how terribly he missed her while she was on Navy deployments to the Middle East, because he worried it would upset her.
Not all electronic games turn kids into couch potatoes. From literacy games to tween-friendly netbooks, here is the latest high-tech gear worth buying to get your child ahead this fall.
Once we got inside the we were seated rather quickly due to there not being a lot of people around. I guess they had something better to do on the 4th like BBQ or something..lol. Anyway Red was not liking it one bit.
Comprehensive health data on California kids available at your fingertipsKidsdata.org recently expanded to offer data for all cities, school districts, and counties in California. These statewide data are available for a wide range of topics measuring the health and well being of children, and more data will be phased in throughout 2010.
Teacher Accused of Putting 'Hit' Out on Supposed Gay PupilReports have surfaced that teacher Randolph Forde, who works at Mundy Mill's High School, Clayton County, Georgia, took a 16-year-old teenager out of class to ask the youngster if he was gay.
Does South Park deserve an F for The "F" Word episode?South Park takes on the Harley riders in a great satire piece.
Indianapolis Schools Ban Atheism Websites | Unreasonable FaithThe Indianapolis Public School system has a policy to ban certain websites from being viewed at school. I certainly hated it when I was in high school (we found ways to bypass it if course) but it's a reasonable idea.
More homework rebels speak out A Calgary couple who fought their children's school to stop homework is just the tip of the iceberg. Parents across the country are weighing growing evidence that homework may hinder more than help
Top 10 Bad Messages From Good MoviesSometimes it can be hard to see the messages a movie teaches, especially if they're unintentional. The best way to see a movie's messages, and bad ones in particular, is to be a parent watching the movie with your kids.
EDITORIAL: Brass attacks - Consumer 'safety' law strikes bad notesSeventy-six trombones left the big charade. A thousand and 10 store debts are close at hand. There are zippers, keys - so many amenities - all outlawed because Congress is blind.
We fell into our routine again rather quickly after getting back on the road. I told the wife that we'd be putting on some serious miles today. She just smiled and reminded me not to drive once I started to get tired.
The next morning I woke up rather early just itching to get on the road and lay down more miles.
How to pinch pennies and still live the Disney dreamMary Waring had just quit her marketing job in San Diego in 2001, so saving money on her upcoming trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida, was a high priority. She found lots of resources online and posted links to coupons on a Web site.
Your Kids Can't Say No to Candy? Blame It on Their Brains - Yahoo! NewsChildren's inability to ignore candy is what also makes them great at discovery and learning per psychological studies and papers...
Good News Wednesday: Are You Raising a Furkid? | GOODConfusing parenthood and pet ownership: The words of the dog world. Kids chase fewer squirrels and postal workers than dogs, but the way we pamper our poodles and great danes and mutts has a lot in common with how we treat our toddlers and teens.
My wife shook me awake with a look of exasperation on her face. I was completely confused, as usual but she quickly clued me in. She had been awakened by the baby needing a change and was just getting her settled in again when it dawned on her that she was done.
Ok so many want god taken away from the pledge of allegiance and taken from money. To an Atheist like me, none of that bothers me, I take it as part of history.
5 Year Old With Cancer Wants Christmas CardsSOUTH LYON, Mich.—There is a very unique bond growing between Ohio and Michigan, and it's all about a 5-year-old boy who has cancer. Noah Biorkman is in the final stages of his two-and-a-half year battle with cancer.
Junior's 1st paycheck: $500 at birth? -Imagine a world in which every baby receives a trust fund at birth. It might sound like a fairy tale, but being born into money -- or at least into a $500 savings account -- could soon become a reality for all children born in the United States. The best new baby gear
Sesame Street still Big Bird's nest after 40 yearsBig Bird - that towering, yellow 6-year-old - has been calling "Sesame Street" home ever since the show premiered on Nov. 10, 1969. And as it marks its 40th anniversary, he remains an essential member of the flock - and the show itself is forever young.
Here we are heading to Amarillo and eating. Things are looking up for us by now. As I was leaving the state I didn't really have any problems until I came to the branch off to head for Amarillo instead of Lubbock.
Public school nurses give swine flu vaccine to kids without parents' OK, sends child to hospitalSchool nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn't sign up for it - including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital.
Sesame Street still Big Bird's nest after 40 yearsBig Bird - that towering, yellow 6-year-old - has been calling "Sesame Street" home ever since the show premiered on Nov. 10, 1969. And as it marks its 40th anniversary, he remains an essential member of the flock - and the show itself is forever young.
I had gotten settled into my bag as was drifting off when all of a sudden my wife sat bolt up right and started shaking me back awake. I, grumbled that I was awake and that she could stop with the earthquake impersonation.
Kids 'absolutely' feel parents' stress, 30% worry about financesAmericans young and old appear resigned to the stress in their lives: 75% of adults feel moderate to high stress, yet fewer report it's getting worse, a survey reports today. And, children and teens are plenty stressed, too, even though their parents may not realize it.
'Texas in Queens': Junior wranglers find refuge with black cowboys Jemmott's mother has been taking him to Cedar Lane Stables since he was a toddler.
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