It’s 4 weeks since Luca Cruz Comrie was born, and 4 weeks of Hilary Duff’s passionate involvement in motherhood. Well, Duff keeps proving she is ready for all challenges there can be! Full story

Mom is tired and she wants to relax... But the child is constantly trying to draw her attention, crying, screaming, jumping, running. And so a wave of irritation rolls over the poor parent... Full story

British doctors are sounding the alarm. Tight swaddling of babies is coming back into fashion in this country after being forgotten about 25 years ago. Full story

The children, who undergo a surgery with general anesthesia at the age of under two years, may face a higher risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Full story

A new study shows that with age, under certain conditions a girl can develop breast thickening, which is a serious risk factor for cancer. If a mother gives birth to a girl when she is over 39, and if before puberty the girl is taller and thinner than her peers, she has a high chance of getting breast cancer. Full story

Neil Patrick Harris knows how to deal with children, even though he and his partner David Burtka are only parents for 15 months. He has a knack that he had learned from his parents. Full story

The parents of little capricious eaters can affect their appetite by just offering them another plate as a dinner accessory. The main condition is that it must be multi-colored! Full story

Some children, who have had sleep problems as a baby, experience the same difficulties later. Full story

While a visit to the wildest section of a zoo can be frightening for some kids, a New Zealand kid has proved to the Internet that “little” doesn’t necessarily mean “easily scared.” The video of her confronting a lion at the Wellington Zoo earned her the title of “the world’s littlest lion tamer.” Full story

John Travolta was excited when his 47-year-old wife, Kelly Preston, got pregnant again last year. But it turns out that the actress is not the only one, who decided to challenge nature. Full story

Teenagers who have a strict and authoritative parent of the opposite sex are less likely to face the risk of alcohol problems. That was an unexpected result of the research conducted by the psychologists from the University of Baylor (USA). Full story

While our underage children are not supposed to see adult images and movies, the harsh reality is often quite different. LSE research results reveal that only during the last year about 25% of teenagers and pre-teens have seen images of a pornographic nature. Full story

Children react differently during the teething period. Sometimes this process does not affect their well-being, but more often shortly before the next tooth appears, babies become restless, weepy, sleep poorly, refuse to eat. During this period, they usually have increased salivation, their gum reddens and swells. Some kids may even have a fever and diarrhea. There are several ways to relieve their pain. Full story

Should we name all the challenges any single mom has to face with? There are only 24 hours in a day, and they are supposed to get all things done in time, things which are sometimes difficult to be handled by two parents. They have only two hands but are to do the job where four hands are not enough. So the greatest challenge they have to deal with is desperation. Full story

Parents of twins and triplets are more likely to divorce than those with single birth, according to sociologists from the Birmingham University. 28 per cent of parents with twins or triplets split up compared with 24 per cent of those with single births. Why is this? Full story

A research conducted by Cadet150 that involved 2,000 parents revealed that out of every four parents one feels too diffident to ladle out discipline on their children for various reasons. Full story

According to a recent survey, 40 percent of the US teens become sexually active before they learn about sex from their parents. That made scientists think today's parents delay too much on talking about sex, reports Psychological Science. Full story

A study by American scientists on how the capacity for creativity and affective disorders are linked revealed the depression-prone parents are more likely to have a genius child compared to optimists, reports the Psychological Science. Full story

Most of us were brought up in belief that physical discipline like smacking or spanking can teach the child aggressiveness and induce him or her to act out and misbehave even more. But it turns out that there’s more to physical discipline than meets the eye. Full story

Researchers from the Glasgow University claim children can make their parents happier, but only if the parents are married. Previous studies, however, showed that having a lot of children makes life harder for the parents. Full story

Strange as it seems, but some moms experience kind of euphoria when they see their baby crying. Other women get negative feelings, and even disgust. A study looking at reasons for maternal neglect found that such opposite behavior patterns have their root in different brain chemical responses which could be explained how mums themselves were treated as children. Full story

American toddlers watch TV two hours a day at average. Many TV programs are advertised as educational. Yet, the children under 3 years of age learn less from these programs than it might seem, unless there is an adult present to reinforce the learning. Researchers from the University of Delaware and the Temple University studied children aged from 40 to 42 months to find out whether they could learn verbs from watching TV programs. Full story

Scientists found spanking one year-olds may make them aggressive by the time they reach three years of age. Although the negative effect of spanking is rather innocent, a new study adds to pile of evidence that spanking may be detrimental to kids. According to Lisa Berlin, the study's lead author and research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, at the age of one year old, children assess parental care and develop a bond. Spanking at that period may affect the processes in negative way and increase aggressiveness of children by the time they reach two years of age. Full story

According to a recent British poll, only one out of four parents spends enough time, playing with their kids. Children and their parents said commitments and pressures of modern life get in the way of spending time together, which makes them unhappy. Only one out of four parents has enough time to play with their children, according to researchers from Play England who conducted the poll. Full story

DNA tests to establish fatherhood at home have hit pharmacies in Britain. Despite a sales pitch, the test could not be carried out at home completely. First, a user has to collect cheek cells from the father and the child and then to send DNA samples to a lab. After 5 days (or after one day for vip-version of the test), the lab will return 100% reliable result showing if the user is a biological father. Regular test will cost £160 and VIP-version will go for about £300. Full story