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• Watching the Clock
  Negotiate and Enforce Curfews
• Special and Ready for Independence
  Helping Special Needs Children Prepare for Life on Their Own
• Words That Heal
  Incontinence Solutions for Special Needs Kids
• Safety for New Walkers
  Giving Children Freedom to Explore While Ensuring Toddler Safety
• Encouraging Toddlers to Be Independent
  Getting to "I Did It!"
• Cutting the Cord
  
• Sleep Toddler!
  Getting Your Toddler Back to Her Own Bed
• Maximum Independence
  Helping Your Teen Take Control of His Life
• Who's the Boss?
  Your Toddler is at Potty Time!
• Stroller Struggles
  Tips for Alleviating Stroller Stress When Out and About

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• Room to Grow
  Giving Your Toddlers Independence and Encouraging Them to Explore
• Breastfeeding Myths
  The Social Myths of Breastfeeding
• Boy Basics 101
  A Survival Guide for Parenting Male Tweens
• Common Errors
  How to Avoid the 8 Biggest Investment Mistakes
• Tooth Brushing and Toddlers
  Oral Care is No Job for a Toddler
• Moms and Daughters
  Redefining the Relationship in the Preteen Years
• The Family Bed (Co-sleeping)
  The Most Common Issues Concerning the Family Bed
• The Accessible Home
  Comfort for the Whole Family
• Toddler Milestones: Dressing Themselves
  A Red Shirt and Purple Pants?
• What Are You Doing in There?
  Privacy Issues and Preteens
• Dreaming of You
  Runner-up in the "Dear Baby" Essay Contest
• Separation Anxiety
  When Your Child's Afraid to Leave Your Side
• Teen-friendly Family Outings
  
• I Want Privacy!
  An Expert Shares Her Thoughts on Kids and Privacy
• Building a Better World
  One Pair of Socks at a Time
• A Quick History of the Azores
  
• Sleep Terrors in Toddlers
  Helping Your Frightened Toddler Sleep Better
• Hanging Out
  What Do Teens Really Do in Their Spare Time?
• Peer Pressure
  Teaching Our Children to Be True to Themselves
• Authoritarian vs. Permissive Parenting Style
  How Does Being a Stay-at-home Mom Affect Your Style?
• My Way on the Highway
  Easing the Tension When Traveling with Preteens
• Forget Your Child
  Are You Ready for Kindergarten?
• Stranger and Separation Anxiety and Babies
  Coping With Your Baby's Separation Anxiety
• Identical Twins, Identical Identities?
  Helping Twins Develop Their Own Identities
• Empty
  How It Feels When a Mother's Arms Are No Longer Full
• Choosing a Childbirth Educator
  An Interview with Penny Simkin, Founder of Doulas of North America
• Winning the Toothbrush Wars
  A Parent's Guide to Getting Toddlers to Brush Their Teeth
• Teen Witch
  Wicca Parents Dispel Myths
• Don't Spoil July 4th Fun
  Preventing Firework Injuries
• Once Upon a Time...
  The Importance of Pretend Play
• No Butts About It
  Keeping Teens and Tweens Smoke-free
• Beyond the Basics
  Alternative Therapies for Bedwetting Children
• Gearing up for Camp!
  Preparation Is Key to a Successful Summer at Camp
• Cultural Baby Names
  Using Family History to Name Baby
• Toddler Sleep Habits
  Helping Toddlers Build Healthy Sleep Habits
• My Backyard Is for Baseball
  Growing More Than Flowers
• Painful Partings
  Helping Toddlers and Parents Cope with Separation Anxiety
• The Value of a Dollar
  Teaching Money Management Skills to Children
• Creative Curfews
  A Little Clarity Goes a Long Way
• Your Child's Overnight Invitation
  He's Ready, Are You?
• Not "Just Another Trip"
  The Truth About Parenting
• Vacation Sharing
  The Reasons and Benefits of Vacationing with Other Families
• A Touchy Subject
  How Does an Innocent Gesture Become Controversy?
• Hamburger
  An excerpt from: Hidden Messages: What Our Words and Actions Are Really Telling Our Children
• When Teens Make Wrong Choices
  
• Growing Up Too Fast
  Helping Your Preteen Transition from Child to Adult
• The Rewards of Being a Daycare Daddy
  From Wall Street to Sesame Street
• Helping Out During the Junior High Years
  Getting – and Staying – Involved at Your Child's School
• Side by Side
  Exploring Virtual Worlds With Your Teen
• Dealing with Climbing Toddlers
  Up, Up the Stairs and Away!
• A Baby's Coming!
  Breaking the News to an Older Child
• Baby Milestones: Scooting
  Scooting's Role in Infant Development
• Teens and Terrorism
  Helping Your Child Cope With Current Events
• Job and School
  Can Your Teen Handle Both?
• Sibling Rivalry and Twins
  One Father's Thoughts on Keeping Sibling Rivalry in Check
• Little People
  Social Challenges for Children With Skeletal Dysplasia
• A Weaning Story
  One Mom Shares How She Weaned Her Son
• Finances, Flexibility and a Little Bit of Faith
  What It Takes to Start a Home-based Business
• Twins and the Terrible Two's
  Tips for Handling 2-year-old Twins
• Birthday Parties for Twins
  When Twins Each Want to be Recognized Separately
• New Age Families
  Family-Building for Gay and Lesbian Parents
• A Reading Revolution
  One (Cyber) Day at a Time
• All Alone
  When Your Only Child Leaves Home
• Keeping Tabs On Your Teen
  
• Fathers and Sons
  Embracing the Changes
• When Babies Climb
  Tips for Dealing with Climbing Toddlers
• A Stupendous Second Year of Life
  The Joy of Having a 2-Year-Old
• Mama's Boy?
  The Key to Understanding Your Emotional Son
• Top 10 Toddler Milestones
  Steps in Your Toddler's Development
• To Work or Not to Work
  The Mother's Dilemma
• Presidential Trips for Your Family
  Part Two
• Puberty Primer
  What to Expect and When to Expect It
• Forget DIY – It's DIWF
  Do It with Family
• Up All Night
  How to Have a Great Slumber Party
• Separation Anxiety in Toddlers
  Tips on Handling a Toddler's Separation Anxiety
• What a Kid Wants, What a Kid Needs
  Making More Time for Family
• Bringing Up Bedwetting
  Talking to Your Doctor About Enuresis
• Off to College with Special Needs
  Helping Your Child Make the Transition
• Ferberizing Without Tears
  Babies, Sleep and Crying It Out
• The Working Single Mom
  How Working SIngle Moms Cope with Minimal Help
• The First Day Home with Baby
  How to Make Things Less Stressful for Everyone
• 10 Ways to Help Kids to Really Say No and Buck Peer Pressure
  An Excerpt from Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them
• Preteen Parties
  Birthday Party Ideas for the Older Child
• PULL-UPS Top 10
  "Cool" Places in Atlanta for Parents and Toddlers
• PULL-UPS® Top 10 in Miami
  "Cool" Places in Miami for Parents and Toddlers
• ADHD
  What is a School's Responsibility?
• My Baby Won't Leave Our Pet Alone!
  Keeping Children and Pets Safe
• 11 Ways to Help Your Middle Schooler Have a Peaceful School Year
  An Excerpt from The Kids' Guide to Working Out Conflicts: How to Keep Cool, Stay Safe and Get Along
• The Kindergarten Blues
  Moms Cope With First-Day-of-School Sadness
• The Role of Responsibility
  How Much Is Too Much?
• Teach Your Toddler to Feed Himself
  Tools That Toddlers Must Tackle
• The Gift That Keeps on Giving
  Financial Gifts for the Future
• Home to Hangout
  6 Steps to a Teen-friendly Home
• From Broke Grad to Multimillionaire
  9 Ways to Get There Faster
• Preparing for Baby
  A Month-by-Month Primer
• Some Not Too Baby-friendly Places
  Places Places You May Not Want to Take Your Baby
• Finding Time for You
  Even Super Mom Needs a Break
• The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning
  Part 1
• You’re Not My Father!
  Helping Teens Adjust to New Stepfamilies
• The Girly Guide
  Surviving Your Female Tween
• Top Pregnancy Fears
  How First-time Moms CanDerail the Worry Train
• When Romance Rages
  Recognizing and Preventing Teen Battering
• New Year, New Baby
  10 Resolutions for New Parents and Parents-to-be
• New Dads With Newborn Fears
  She Won't Break, New Dad!
• Audrey Penn
  Living in a Child's World
• Old Sturbridge Village
  Take a Trip Back in Time to Old Sturbridge Village
• Holding Baby Skin to Skin to Calm
  A Powerful Way to Calm and Soothe
• Low-carb Diets and Teens
  Nonsense or Common Sense?
• Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy!
  Confronting Motherhood, Womanhood and Selfhood in a Household of Boys
• Religion and Breastfeeding
  How Breastfeeding Impacts the Religious Woman
• Logging on to Danger?
  Internet Safety for Teens
• Lipstick and Lace
  Is There a Need for More Socially Responsible Toys for Little Girls?
• Richard Karn
  Raising a Teen Requires Plenty of Father Time
• Infant's Intelligence
  Quotient (IQ)
  Can Parenting Techniques Lead to Higher IQs in Babies?
• A Hard Habit to Break
  Part Three
• Walt Disney World for Teens
  Can They Really Have Fun?
• Rocky Mountain Road Trip
  Your Colorado Family Vacation Awaits
• Raising Generations
  Does Your Discipline Style Affect Your Grandchildren?
• To Spark the Imagination
  Experts Weigh In On Magnetix Jr. Toys
• Safety First
  Trends in Teen Driving
• The Value of Adoptive Parent Groups
  The Value of Adoptive Parent Groups
• Tiny Bites, Big Nutritional Needs
  Exploring a Toddler's Dietary Requirements
• Turning Points for Better and Worse
  Facing Anorexia, Dishonesty and Separation

• How can I get my teen to take better care of his body?
• How can I get my teen to take better care of his body – daily showers, washing his hair, wearing deodorant?
• What's the line between praising/encouraging and discipline when it comes to potty training?
• My daughter wants to wean her 25-month-old son, and wants me to be the one to put him to sleep. Is this even feasible?
• I have 13-month-old twin boys who are clingy and nervous around other people. Is there anything I can do?
• What causes some children to have a fear of using the toilet for a bowel movement?
• My 15-year-old son talks to me in "baby talk." Any thoughts?
• What are the benefits or lack of benefits for a child continuing to nurse at 2 1/2 to 3 years old?
• My 7-month-old daughter is so attached to me that she cries when I leave the room and it's making it hard on my husband who can't hold her without her crying. Help!
• My 7-month-old daughter is so attached to me that she cries when I leave the room. What can I do to help her?

more expert q&a

• How can I get my 2-and-a-half-year-old son to take medication?
• My 5-year-old wakes up every 1-3 hours and comes into our room. What can we do?
• How can I engage in meaningful play with my child?
• Should I insist on my twin girls being in the same class for kindergarten?
• I am afraid that my son will become more and more involved with an outcast group of friends, and he will end up being made fun of by the others. Can you help me?
• My husband doesn't seem to understand or have any sympathy for our tween son who wets the bed. How can I get him to understand and be more helpful in helping our son?
• I have heard of books and people that claim to potty train a child in one day. Is this really possible? Is it preferable?
• My son is 18 months old and gags himself when I put him in his crib at night. This occurs one to two times before he finally goes to sleep. What can I do?
• I think my milk has dried up. If it has, should I continue to nurse my 4-year-old or should I make an effort to stop?
• Is it harmful for my 11-year-old twin daughters to go to different schools?
• Can I nurse my baby too often?
• What kind of support and information do teenagers need to breastfeed successfully?
• How can I get my toddler involved in dance besides putting him in a class?